Things, as they say, proceed.
MORGAN BAROD is not yet available for pre-order; be sure to check out my other books in the meantime. Still hoping for a September 1st release, but it may end up being delayed a week or two. Publishing, alas, is not an exact science.
Not all the chapter edits are done; but then, I haven’t quite finished the revisions on the ones I have, so there’s that. In the meantime, I have a good enough idea of the page count that I can arrange for the cover. For this I am getting the cover professionally laid out:
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.
I am well-pleased with it.
Artwork’s from a buddy of mine in the SCA, and I think it came out right nice. MORGAN BAROD is still on schedule for coming out this summer, by the way. Keep watching the skies!
Let a couple of chapters build up, but that’s done now. Things… proceed. And regular posting will resume tomorrow.
I look at the notes at random, and see something helpfully pointed out that I should have blessed well considered the first go-round. Plus the usual list of darlings to kill, most of which I thought I had gotten already. This is why you need an editor, folks. If you are going to self-publish, you can do a lot of stuff yourself; but you can’t do without an editor and you can’t do without a book cover designer. Sorry.
Huzzah! Many thanks to my long-suffering wife and alpha reader, and the considerably less suffering beta readers, for their opinions and reactions. I dunno how long the book’s gonna be in edits, but hopefully we can hit a summer release date. The cover is likewise being worked on right now, and is getting pretty close to done.
In other news: Galactic Con is still a thing, although I’m still trying to figure out how to factor in bathroom breaks. TINSEL RAIN I start working on tomorrow, and I’m not entirely looking forward to it, honestly. There’s a lot of stitching that has to happen. And I would like to do a bunch of writing this summer, now that school’s winding down. But note the italics.
But enough of that. The book is at the editor’s! That means it’s not my problem until corrections start coming back! Huzzah!
It really is a lot worse when you get the second shot. Fatigue, my arm hurts, and I think I may be running an actual fever?
On the other hand, I woke up this morning saying Wait! Morgan Barod needs to kill a monster made of slime and human vertebrae! Which is correct: he did, and it fixed a chapter nicely, I think. So yay, vaccine-induced fevers.
This is after feedback from her and my beta readers (if you’re a beta reader and have got anything left to add, there’s still time for feedback). After I have it back from here, it’s off to the editor. It’s in a better place now, I think — by which I mean I hate MORGAN BAROD, and want it to burn. This is apparently perfectly normal.
I’m very pleased, so far.
In other news: I still have to actually chew through the beta reader feedback, because reasons. I’m going to start doing that in the next day or two. Then it’s off to the editor, and the mechanism starts up. What fun!
Moe Lane
