Tag: book report

Did a second revision pass-through of the entire book, mostly. That mostly involved formatting stuff, but there was a plot hole or two that needed to be rectified. And, yes, that ate the entire day.

In other news: we have a cartographer for the RPG worldbook! I went with Robert Altbauer of Fantasy Map again: he did the Cin City map in plenty of time and with no fuss, and it’s been popular with my Kickstarter backers. So having him do this one, too sounded sensible.

Long day. More productive than I was giving it credit for, but still very much a long day.

It was a productive day, really. Just not always productive in ways that can shown off. Advanced on some details on the RPG artwork and layout, for example. Tracked down somebody’s name for the dedication. Did some work that’s up on Patreon now. All useful, but not exactly telegenic.

Spent most of it fiddling with the RPG setting, and hunting down every stray space-and-carriage return I could find. I am starting to get sick of the sight of the book itself, which I understand is normal! This cheers me up, no end.

In other news: if you haven’t filled out your survey, fill it out. Also, if you bought a sonnet, get back to me about what you want in it. And, finally: feel free to let people know about the pre-order store, especially if they missed the Kickstarter and feel bad about it. Or if you think that they might get hooked. I mean, reading my stuff’s gotta be better for them than cigarettes, right?

The last of the short stories for the sampler has gotten its pass-through: next, I will hand them off to my alpha reader and have her tell me what’s wrong with them. I will probably have to proof-read them myself, though, and won’t that be fun? But that’s OK. This is good practice. So is putting them together in e-book form. I learn with this so that the book itself goes smoothly.

Also: the pre-order store is up. By all means, encourage people to check it out. I need to consult with Backerkit about exactly what goes on with locking orders, particularly when it involves digital rewards, and whether I can still do pre-orders there once I’ve locked down. Hrm. I may not make the Dragon Award deadline this year after all. Ach, well, it’ll be eligible for next year’s, then.

Didn’t do much; turns out I miscounted the days. Tomorrow it’ll be 14 days since the Kickstarter ended. At least there’s no reason not to start the Backerkit review process in the morning. That means backers may start getting surveys soon. Yay!

…Sorry. I am in a mood, and I am snappish.

I need to get off my butt and finish processing these revisions. I wasn’t even going to mention that, except that I need to make a confession. You see, I just had to type out the following sentence, and I am ashamed of myself that somebody needed to point out the problem that made me write it:

Dammit, I should have realized that there weren’t enough monkeys.

And this is why editors are good, brothers and sisters.

Prepped another short story to be looked at, got another chapter back from the editor, and this has been pretty much the way of it for the last few days. I’d wish for some excitement, except that I don’t actually want any. I’d like it all to be dull as dishwasher until the funds come in and I can spend money on stuff.