Weekly Progress Update:

Weekly Progress Update:

Finally done editing! Technically, I now have to go make all those markups in my manuscript, as I did my last round of editing directly in the book. Unfortunately, I anticipated the markups to only take me about two days to do, but it seems like it’ll be closer to a week. There are thousands of changes to make!

With that said, I’m still on schedule to publish on November 15th. After the document is updated, I need to make sure the book cover is sized for both the paperback and hardcover, then order a sample print for each on rush delivery. The only one I’m worried about is the hardcover because the template Ingram Sparks provides is pretty much useless and it never gets placed correctly after upload, so it’s a lot of trial and error.

If the samples are good, then I’m good to go! Otherwise, I’ll need to make revisions and order another sample and repeat as needed. I only have time for about 2-3 rounds of revisions, depending on how quickly the rush service can get me books. That should be plenty, but the hardcover can be stubborn.

In other news, the first week of the contest has passed! I’m expecting a much smaller turnout this quarter – which means a higher chance to win for those who enter! This is due to no longer posting on the /r/fantasywriters subreddit community, so only followers of my website and Facebook will be aware of it.

Once Madness is published, I plan to actually jump into Book 3 again, instead of the spin-off as I had planned. I figured this would happen, and I’m okay with it. Reading through Madness has me eager to continue that particular story – I’m sure you’ll see why after you read it as well! In addition, I desperately need to go back and edit all of Honor. My writing has drastically improved since then and it’s an embarrassment, really. I need to determine when that will happen, but it needs to. It’s the first piece new readers encounter and I can’t stand how badly written it is. But that will probably delay my future books by three months, so it’s difficult to determine when to squeeze it in.

Dilemmas, dilemmas.

Well, that’s it for this week. I’m currently at 25% through the document markup and will definitely be finished by next Sunday with samples ordered. That leaves me with four weeks before publishing, which is still adequate time, unless I have to order multiple rounds of samples. As long as I can avoid that (and hopefully get them right on the first shot), then all is well.

See you next week!