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alexandraerinNot really, but it is kind of a brain-eating one.
You know, there are many situations where it makes sense as an author to hire someone else to take care of some aspect of a book that's not the writing of it: editing, proofreading, typesetting, etc. All are things that may fall outside an author's natural talents and definitely take time and energy away from the creative work.
But you know, I think there just may be money in a service to tell authors when their books are finished and it's time to move on. With my online stuff, I have it easy. Once I started to make the leap of posting something up for the world to see it became automatic. But this is something different.
Instead of starting to send The Gift of the Bad Guy out at midnight as I'd planned, I ended up re-reading it and tweaking it in a few places again (and catching an egregious bit of misapostrophication that had worked its way in, so there is that). I just woke up and my instinct is to go over it again. I have to keep reminding myself that I've sent out copies to 12 of the sponsors already.
News For Today
Well, The Gift of the Bad Guy is launching today. If you have pre-ordered it, you can expect your copy or copies to arrive sometime today... "today" meaning before I go to sleep again tomorrow morning. If you haven't bought it yet, it'll go back on sale once all the pre-orders have gone out.
Personal Assessment
Have slept pretty great the past three days. Not nights, but days. I'll have to work on fixing that gradually, as it's going to be really inconvenient to be on a daytime sleep schedule as the days get warmer and brighter, but for now I'm just letting sleep come when it will.
Random Link
In a move that was planned long before she waded into the fray on e-book pricing, Cat Valente has lowered the price of her back catalog e-books (the ones she controls the rights to) to $2.99. These are PDFs, which generally work pretty well on a Kindle, though if you are a Kindle reader please be advised that she's working on Kindle conversions.
Plans For Today
Well, I'm going to wait until I wake up a little bit more and then I'm going to do the second half of the AA PDFs. Then I'm going to spend some more time with the EPUB version and do the AA editions of that. Then I'm going to send out all the regular pre-ordered copies. That is going to be the easy part, as I have mailing lists already set up for them.
You know, there are many situations where it makes sense as an author to hire someone else to take care of some aspect of a book that's not the writing of it: editing, proofreading, typesetting, etc. All are things that may fall outside an author's natural talents and definitely take time and energy away from the creative work.
But you know, I think there just may be money in a service to tell authors when their books are finished and it's time to move on. With my online stuff, I have it easy. Once I started to make the leap of posting something up for the world to see it became automatic. But this is something different.
Instead of starting to send The Gift of the Bad Guy out at midnight as I'd planned, I ended up re-reading it and tweaking it in a few places again (and catching an egregious bit of misapostrophication that had worked its way in, so there is that). I just woke up and my instinct is to go over it again. I have to keep reminding myself that I've sent out copies to 12 of the sponsors already.
News For Today
Well, The Gift of the Bad Guy is launching today. If you have pre-ordered it, you can expect your copy or copies to arrive sometime today... "today" meaning before I go to sleep again tomorrow morning. If you haven't bought it yet, it'll go back on sale once all the pre-orders have gone out.
Personal Assessment
Have slept pretty great the past three days. Not nights, but days. I'll have to work on fixing that gradually, as it's going to be really inconvenient to be on a daytime sleep schedule as the days get warmer and brighter, but for now I'm just letting sleep come when it will.
Random Link
In a move that was planned long before she waded into the fray on e-book pricing, Cat Valente has lowered the price of her back catalog e-books (the ones she controls the rights to) to $2.99. These are PDFs, which generally work pretty well on a Kindle, though if you are a Kindle reader please be advised that she's working on Kindle conversions.
Plans For Today
Well, I'm going to wait until I wake up a little bit more and then I'm going to do the second half of the AA PDFs. Then I'm going to spend some more time with the EPUB version and do the AA editions of that. Then I'm going to send out all the regular pre-ordered copies. That is going to be the easy part, as I have mailing lists already set up for them.