Despite not releasing anything in 2023, I did write quite a few words and get some stuff done last year. Here’s the recap!
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The Rotten Core Outline Edits Are Back
I’ve already changed the title on this book and now it’s time to change the main character too! Here’s the breakdown of the details of the edits of the first draft of the outline for this book:
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The third draft of the outline for my third book, The Rotten Core, is complete and ready to send to my editor! Here are the details:
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The First Draft Outline of The Rotten Core is Complete!
The first draft of the outline for my 3rd book, The Rotten Core, is complete! This will be the sequel to The Gray Shift and book # 2 in the PDX CTB duology.
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The Gray Shift Edits are Back!
I got the edits on my full draft of The Gray Shift back from my editor two weeks ago and I finished going through all 291 pages of commented/redlined Word doc this past week.
My favorite comment is: “When the bisected torso hits the windshield, I would love for readers to jump out of their skin (metaphorically, of course). But to do that, the writing will need to be more cinematic. Traye rubbing his neck and saying don’t do that again is pretty funny, actually.“
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Making The Unsettled Compromise Cover in 10 Steps!
Normally I make my cover art while a book is out for editing, but since my next book is the sequel to The Gray Shift and I already made a cover for that one that I could use as a template, I decided to jump ahead and make a cover for The Unsettled Compromise first before I finish the outline.
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The Gray Shift is Out for Editing and Beta Testing!
The third draft of The Gray Shift is now complete and out for editing and beta testing! I expect to get the feedback from both my awesome editor and my beta readers by May. I’m hoping that this version is 80-90% what the final text will be, but I have said that before…
Continue readingMaking The Gray Shift Cover in 44 Steps
This past weekend the SF Bay Area got slammed with a ton of storms, so what better way to spend a rainy weekend inside than making the cover for my next book? Here are all 44 of the variants I went through before arriving at the (hopefully) final design.
Continue readingThe Gray Shift: Second Draft Complete!
Today I finished the second draft of my next book, The Gray Shift! The story is now structurally complete and I don’t anticipate making any more big plot changes to it. I do plan on doing on more edit pass on it before sending it out to beta readers but that will be to mainly fix/update character names and to flesh out any descriptors as well as to make sure everything is consistent.
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Full Coverage Sales 2017-2022
Three days ago Amazon updated the Kindle Reports page that tracks sales of my books on their site to make it a lot more usable. Previously it would only shows sales in dollar amounts and and Kindle Unlimited in pages read. This meant you could kind of guess the amount of sales based on the data but it wasn’t an exact amount and if you wanted a detailed report you had to use something like Book Report to convert all that raw Kindle Reports data into something useful. Now however, it looks like Amazon copied a lot of Book Report’s functionality and moved it into the base Kindle Reports site. This gives me a good opportunity to take a look at how Full Coverage performed over the past 5 years 😱 since I published it in 2017.
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