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I have pulled the trigger on MORGAN BAROD.

Frankly, with the damn week we’re all having it was either that, or break out the whiskey. I realized that I could download the print proof, as well as order it, so I spent today going through the text and making the last changes. I’m going to wait for the review process to finish, and then… I have, like, a little bit of an advertising budget! Fascinating, right?

Thanks to everybody who helped. MORGAN BAROD will be available for $4.99 Kindle, $12.99 in paperback, and I dunno if I’m going to have a hardcover option for this one. Keep watching this space!

I am now generating the proof copy for MORGAN BAROD.

I will, alas, probably miss the September 1st deadline at this point. But not by more than a few days. I’ll also definitely have to go through the book to look for proofing errors, and won’t that be fun? – but if all goes well, I’ll have it ready to sell at that book fair thing I’m doing in October, which is the important thing.

Yay! And keep watching the skies!

Morrrrre revisions uggh.

This time for the chapbook: it was suggested that I add little intros to explain each story, and that was a very good suggestion, so I did. And that kind of catches me up, at this point. Tomorrow I can go through MORGAN BAROD again, send selected sections to my editor, and then we’ll do another final passthrough and… publish… the… book?

That seems weird to just type out, like that. I mean, sure, it’s about time, but still. There’s a certain milestone involved in getting more than one novel out, I think. At least, that’s how it feels.

Heh-hee-hee-heh it’s done :one eye, suddenly bulging: thE FIRsT EDItiNg of MORGAN BAROD iS DonE.

I sat down and I did all the chapter revisions, me. All of them. And the global killing of all the ‘thats’ and the ‘somebodys’ and the commas outside the quotes — or is it the insides? No matter! They’re dead, dead, DEAD! They’ve all been most piteously slain! The darlings fell like rain!

Now I am going to not look at the book until tomorrow, do another read-through to see what I missed, let the editor see the most revised portions, and… then we can get this SOB published. Because I am totally at the point where I hate MORGAN BAROD. It’s the most magical stage, in a book’s life. I’m ready to drive it out with fire and whip into the open world, where it might then earn money for me.

Speaking of: buy my books!

My new novel MORGAN BAROD will have a September release!

I’m self-publishing, so I am comfortable saying that. September 1st, with any luck: the editing is on-schedule and the book cover art is done (and below). I’m going to be working up a rough estimate of page count this week so that I can get that information to the book cover designer, and while MORGAN BAROD is not yet available for pre-order I encourage everybody to buy my books.

So there you have it! The new novel is indeed coming. Tentative price will be $4.99 in Kindle, $12.99 in paperback. I say tentative because I have to let KDP finish crunching those numbers first.