There’s a lot of red so far this month. My daily walk got interrupted by weather for ten days. That didn’t help my productivity.

This month has been mostly catching up on audio and working on Full Share’s paperback version. I’ve made some progress but not very much (about halfway). Half Share’s final galley proof should show up in a day or two and I’ll be able to release that one.

One thing crossed off my list so far this month: Cowry Catchers Book Five voice acting is completed.

Still left to do this month:

• Finish Full Share
• Wrap up Crudrat project work

Note: The red boxes marked “NS” are No School days for the progeny.

So there’s what January looked like. After a rather disappointing start, yesterday was the first day off since the 7th.

Half Share is ready for format and upload. I should be able to do that today. I’ve already got the galley for Full Share sitting here on the table beside me and I’ve got a red pen all ready to go. I suspect there will be less markup on that book, meaning I’ll get through it that much faster. The goal is to get Full Share done by the end of February. Sooner is better.

I’ve still got audio work owed. You’ll see that I managed to get some out in the middle of the month but mostly I worked on paperbacks.

The 21st was “surgery day.” I lost that day to the hospital – family member, not me. She’s recuperating and all is well.

I had a lot of nice green circles (around the date numbers) – those were podcast days. I had one blue circle day when I walked but the recording failed. It happens.

I know many of you are disappointed that I’ve not even started any new work this month. It’ll come. I’m still in the “million words” club — a group of us who have set a million word goal for this year. That’s only 100 days of 10k words and there are 330 or so left in the year. That’s more than enough for six new novels.

Editors, that’s another question, but I’m working with three right now and have a couple more in the drawer for future work. Let me get the old stuff cleared up so I can move forward into a new workflow and I think all of us are going to be happier.

Keep flying.

I got yet another request for paperbacks this morning, asking for a schedule. I left a reply on the comment itself – and also replied to the accompanying email but here’s what it looks like right now for publication schedule…

It takes about a month per title. I’m working on the paperback of Half Share now and should have it done by the end of the month.

Full Share in February
Double Share in March
Captain’s Share in April

I don’t have Owner’s Share back from the editor yet, but if I get it back in time I’ll publish that in ebook as soon as possible and paperback in May.

Then on to revise and re-release Ravenwood in June, Zypheria’s Call in July, and Hermit of Lammas Wood in August.

By then I should have South Coast back and will publish that in ebook as soon as possible and paperback in September.

The rest of the year will be recording audio for those books that don’t have it yet. The Tanyth Fairport stories – arguably much better – are suffering because they’ve not had the same exposure as Ishmael Wang has enjoyed. I need to fix that.

Hardcovers will have to wait until 2015.

My six book year will have to wait for a bit, too.

My plan is to approach publishing as my “day job” and see if I can carve an hour or two a day out of the schedule to actually write something new. There won’t be any 10,000 word days in there, but I might be able to get something written by mid summer for publication in the fall. If I can get those paperbacks out sooner, then of course, I will because that will be one huge load off my back.

Stay tuned.