With any kind of luck this is the last significant Thinks list of the year… by Thursday/Saturday: – revision pass on older nephew’s book – put together Gryphon Beach Tales book for younger nephew – write “Don’t Wreck Your Soul” – write the next Kickstarter short story – do BABA YAGA’S DAUGHTER proofs by end-of-year: – write the Terri Windling short story commission – get as much as possible done on the ElectriCity script – get Easy Pickings up on Amazon etc Right now that short story commission–I will write…
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Thud.
I’ve finished the book for my nephew. It came in at 70K, pretty much as expected. (I was aiming for 60, but hit what I thought was the halfway point at 35, so…yeah. 70 it is.) This is the first book I’ve written without a synopsis in six years. I’m a lot better at writing without a synopsis than I was last time I tried. :) It was kind of fun, and I’ll probably do the same with the other books when I write them, but yeah–I actually only realized…
look! people are buying it!
People are buying “Easy Pickings!” I realize that’s kind of the whole idea, but having previously only sold internet stuff long before I wrote it, this is very exciting! I’ve earned out my half of the cover art costs, which is…well, I mean, really, other than time, that’s our only cost. So I’m into the profit zone now. It’s not huge amounts of profit, but on the other hand, the thing’s been on sale slightly less than 12 hours, and we’re not posting it on Amazon/B&N/Smashwords til Friday, probably. (At…
“Easy Pickings” PDF for sale now!
Most of a year ago Faith Hunter and I decided to write a crossover novella with our two main characters, Joanne Walker and Jane Yellowrock. We thought we’d have it done this past summer, but, um, we didn’t. But now it’s done! And this week we’re doing a soft launch on it, and giving our loyal fans and readers a chance to buy a PDF of the novella for $1.99, a dollar less than it’ll be going for on Amazon, B&N and other online retailers. So without further ado…EASY PICKINGS!…
flailing
I’m flailing around at the end of this draft. I’m in the Novelist’s Event Horizon. The end of the book is the same distance away as it has always been, as it will always be. I have five chapters left. I will have five chapters left until it’s abruptly done, and I won’t know quite how I got there. I’ve written a couple bits which tell me who the bad guy for book two (and possibly beyond) is, but I don’t know how to get to them. I hate this…