Back when this all started in 2007, I wrote four novels. The first three “Share” books and for NaNoWriMo a bonus novel — South Coast. It’s taken me the better part of two weeks to get it cleaned up. That’s after having an editor work it over.
It went live on Nook, Kobo, and KDP over the last couple of days.
Enjoy.
Since my birthday last month, I’ve been cranking up the production.
For the first time ever, all the Shares are now in paper. I’ve got the galley proofs for all of Tanyth’s adventures enroute. If you’re counting, that’s six books converted from ebook to paper in the last four weeks.
STOP.
You can’t buy them yet. I still need to mark them up and get the galleys approved. I have a schedule that should have all the Shares available by mid-December. Tanyth’s books will be a bit later. I’m working at it, but I can’t predict how much time they’ll take to mark up and release.
Right now I’m working on getting the edits loaded into South Coast so I can release that one this month, too.
The goal is to clear out all the back work, removing it as a distraction so that I can focus on the new work.
Fingers crossed that the levers and pulleys don’t malfunction, but the mental exoskeleton seems to be working.
January’s about half over and after being a prat about my work load the other day, I thought I’d share some of the stuff I’m doing.
This image is what I’ve done this month.
The circles around the dates are for my daily walk/podcast. Red means I didn’t walk. Green means I walked and did the podcast. Blue means I walked but the podcast file failed.
In the boxes are what I did. For the first week, my word counts were zero. We were still on Holiday Schedule here with family home and kids under foot. HLW in red means editing. I published it on the 12th. (Green box.)
The red box is “No School” day. It’s MLK Day and everybody will be off.
The good news for today is that I finished the markup for Half Share’s paper edition and I’ll be loading those changes in over the next few days. That’ll be one less book in the pile.
I’ve also taken care of a lot of “back office” business this week. I finalized contracts for foreign translations on Korean and Japanese editions. I paid my estimated taxes to state and feds. I shipped a bunch of stuff out to Dark Overlord Media for a benefit auction for CosmoQuest.
It’s been a hectic month and I’ve not done any of the things I planned, but I think I’ve done the most urgent things on my list.
I still have a lot to do. Luckily, tomorrow is another day…