I found myself with a little free time after some gardening this morning. The little one was listening to her favorite podcast and Liz was taking a nap. I sat down, thinking I might do some additional outlining for Purpleverse 2 and I just couldn’t stay focused. Then I thought about a conversation Liz and […]
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It’s been a while since I posted anything here. In addition to releasing the book and launching Maximum Cat Press, there has been a lot of change and increased stress in my day job and we unexpectedly had to replace our deck (Liz’s foot literally went through the old one). To say I’ve been busy
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Release day for Her Violet Empire has now come and gone, and while I’m absolutely thrilled to have it out there, the anticlimax of it all is really hitting me. I was so caught up with marketing and ordering and trying to launch the Maximum Cat Press website, I never had the time to catch
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Release day is coming on April 5th, except SOMEBODY missed the memo that the date had changed. Oh well, my own fault for changing it. I’ve been getting myself as ready as I can for everything, but it feels at times like a full-time job unto itself. I never deluded myself into thinking that publishing
Her Violet Empire is now delayed until April 5, 2022, largely because I messed up. Frankly, the process is becoming a monumental drag and, instead of being excited, I find myself longing for it to be released and over with so I can go back to the parts I enjoyed. While that sounds morose, this
I had a serious crisis this morning. My wife, who is also my social media manager, had been using an older draft copy of my manuscript to generate posts on Instagram. Not a big deal, there weren’t a ton of rewrites between the drafts. But she said something that absolutely destroyed me. It was an
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Today is the day. I officially submitted my files to Ingram. Her Violet Empire is off to the publisher. There will be a file review process in the next couple of days, and hopefully everything is accepted. Based on the submission information, HVE will be released on March 25th, 2022! I cannot express the cascade
Sorry it’s been a minute since I posted anything. For the one or two of you who keep up with this nonsense, it was sort of a planned hiatus. After 2 years of COVID lockdowns, I finally felt like it was safe enough to travel north to Virginia and see my family. I’m not sure
After a bit of a hiatus, I’m back at it. Call it a mental health break, call it a creative block, call it a week from Hell, I had to put HVE on hold for a little bit. Brace yourselves, I’m about to get wordy. The creative part that was really giving me fits was
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I finally bit the bullet and submitted my ISBN forms. Because so much of that data cannot be changed after submission, it’s *super* intimidating to finally hit submit. Having my ISBNs registered to my title was only the beginning. IngramSpark will not allow you to proceed through to setting up your print until you have
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