Slight Detour

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Detour sign with right pointing arrow

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Since finishing the ‘big push’ under CampNaNoWriMo things have languished a little, with some work done on chapter 29 that I’m still not satisfied with.  This week I did  some writing – but not on the edit.  Instead, I polished (again) three old short stories to submit to a couple of competitions.  Three, because I finished one then realised the rules for the comp where I’d intended to submit it would rule it out as published although it appeared many years ago in a writers’ group pamphlet with a tiny circulation.  So I ended up editing a different one to submit to that competition.

I used to enter short story competitions fairly regularly and enjoyed some success, with a couple of first and second prizes, and quite a few runners up/highly commended ratings.  Since embarking on the mammoth edit of the first novel I want to self publish, I have tended to neglect that side of things, but as two prestigious competitions both close on 31 May, decided I should make an effort.  If anyone is interested, these are the well known Bridport competition, and the perhaps not so well known Yeovil Literary Prize.  They have categories for novels, too, and I have in the past submitted to those, but not this time around.  (Oh and they have poetry categories, and the Yeovil prize has a ‘Writing without Restriction’ category where you can enter essays, emails, mini sagas, biographies or just about anything.)

So my goals for ROW80 and progress in red:

  1. Complete the novel edit by end May – still on chapter 29, another 7 to go
  2. Work out how to format a Kindle book including the front and end pages and what to put in those – more to follow up on that.  The main methods appear to use Calibre or Scrivener.  Some people appear to just upload a Word file or PDF, whereas others handcrank the HTML which lies behind the Kindle format doing all sorts of code substitutions, which I think can be done in Calibre at least.  Not sure yet what the best approach is and will have to do some test runs to work through it, once I have something a lot nearer the final MS.
  3. Once the final edit is complete, approach the various editors previously identified as possible pro editors  to establish how much it would cost for this long first MS, and whether it can be done without having to spend ‘loadsamoney’.

 

Anyway, here are the updates from those nice people at ROW80:

CampNaNoWriMo – Final Report

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Tent at night, public domain image

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Using CampNaNoWriMo as motivation certainly was a good idea.  Despite some fallow days when I didn’t manage anything on the edit, I exceeded my initial goal (20 hours editing = 20,000 words on Camp) by day 12, and upped it to 40 hours/40,000 equivalent.  By the time I validated on 26 April, I had managed to break through the 47 hour barrier.  Since then, I’ve managed another couple of sessions and have finished with a healthy 54 hours of editing.  The outcome of that is a thorough edit up to the end of chapter 28 so I’m pretty pleased.

One thing I’ve realised during this latest edit is that I’ve been completely blinkered about a few small issues in the story.  Despite working on it on and off for umpteen years and countless edits, a few things have slipped through the net.  I’m currently puzzling about one of them:  a character whose past behaviour could be considered ‘bad’ enough to make her vulnerable to the evil influence which affects anyone who either worships the personified powers of darkness or has done such negative things it amounts to that anyway.  This woman has, more than once, ‘shopped’ people out of jealous spite, leading to extremely unfortunate outcomes for them.  Yet she has an important role in the last few chapters and if she is under the evil influence, she won’t be able to carry it out.  I can’t think of who else I could transfer her role to at present so I will have to ponder and hope that the subconscious delivers.

I did a few other things this month which have been on the to-do list for some time.  One was creating a business card; double-sided to represent my two writing hats, including the supernatural fiction one.  Did that on Vistaprint, and although it cost me more than originally anticipated, I’m very pleased with the result.

The other was claiming my author page on Amazon UK although I haven’t yet updated it, so it just has an entry for Decalog 2, the Dr Who anthology in which a story of mine appeared, and no biog.  I’ve also got an account for KDP, although I’m not sure how that is going to cope with my two hats.  Another thing needing research.  I don’t yet have a page on Amazon.com, so will have to investigate that also.  Decalog 2 does show up on the US site, so in theory I could have a page with that on as a holding page until I start self publishing.

So my goals for ROW80 and progress in red:

  1. Complete the novel edit by end April using CampNaNoWriMo as motivation – finished chapter 28, another 8 to go
  2. Work out how to format a Kindle book including the front and end pages and what to put in those – more to follow up on that.  The main methods appear to use Calibre or Scrivener.  Some people appear to just upload a Word file or PDF, whereas others handcrank the HTML which lies behind the Kindle format doing all sorts of code substitutions, which I think can be done in Calibre at least.  Not sure yet what the best approach is and will have to do some test runs to work through it, once I have something a lot nearer the final MS.
  3. Once the final edit is complete, approach the various editors previously identified as possible pro editors  to establish how much it would cost for this long first MS, and whether it can be done without having to spend ‘loadsamoney’.

 

And here are the updates of those nice folks at ROW80:

Back in the Saddle

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Rider in desert

Tinogasta by tpsdave on Pixabay, Public domain

CampNaNoWriMo is well underway now, and although I’ve had some days of total distraction where absolutely nothing got done, I’ve more or less been able to stick to a pattern of working every other day.  So far, I’ve almost met my original goal of 20,000 (editing equivalent is 20 hours and I am actually editing).  Yesterday, I increased the goal to 40,000 as I think it is do-able, having seen  how I’ve progressed so far.  I didn’t want to start off with a large goal as that could be demotivating in itself.

I’m now up to chapter 22 in the magnum opus so am gradually making progress.  Need to maintain my momentum and not get sucked into doing social media stuff and reading articles; easier said than done!

Other than editing, I’m continuing to read and post reviews on Goodreads; you can follow those via the button in the sidebar.  I’ve also started posting a few on Twitter, but only the more interesting ones.  I’m laying off doing online short stories at present because it would distract from the edit.

So the goals – progress:

  1. Complete the novel edit by end April using CampNaNoWriMo as motivation – nearly finished chapter 22, another 14 to go
  2. Work out how to format a Kindle book including the front and end pages and what to put in those – more to follow up on that.

And here are the updates of those nice folks at ROW80:

Camping out under the Writerly Stars

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CNW_April 2016_ParticipantIt’s that time again as April commences – CampNaNoWriMo.  I’ve joined a cabin with a couple of other writers I know, with the intent of really getting down to the edit.  I’ve done a bit more in the past week; another couple of chapters slowly edited.

Took time out to do a review on a submission for the email writers’ group to which I belong, and also finally got round to setting up a Twitter account.  I went through the chapter in Catherine Ryan Howard’s book, Self-PrintedThe Sane Person’s Guide to Self-Publishing (3rd Edition), for advice on how to use Twitter as a writer, and I am getting to grips, though some of the symbols used in people’s Tweets are pretty esoteric.  I’ve also had to impose some order via Lists and mute one group to keep it out of my feed as it was another one of those link drop ones for indie books; had to do the same with a similar one on Facebook.  If I feel those are no value going forward, I’ll stop following them.

Social media does eat into writing time and is a big distraction, so I am going to have to be tough with myself.  Hopefully the past couple of days have been the exception as I get to grips with Twitter and regular posting on Facebook.  On the plus side, I’ve cut down on Goodreads a bit, though I am posting regular reviews as I’m still motoring through old paperbacks.

I’ve come across some interesting articles this week:  How to Write a Blurb and an older article which still has resonance The Myth of Book Promoters.  Definitely true that there are a lot of people out there wanting to make money out of self-publishers.  I had hardly been on Twitter five minutes when a couple of book promotion companies decided to follow me.  It’s spooky how they find you when you have hardly started tweeting, and nothing particularly noticeable, just a few practice tweets.

So the goals – progress and updated:

  1.  Complete the novel edit by end March – OK, didn’t manage that.  Reached the end of what is effectively the first half of the novel.
  2. Work out how to format a Kindle book including the front and end pages and what to put in those – more to follow up on that.
  3. Complete the novel edit by end April using CampNaNoWriMo as motivation

 

No ROW80 update this time, as I’ve already posted for the last one this round and Round 2 does not start until 4 April.

Slight Derailment

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Train wreck at Montparnasse in 1895

Train wreck at Montparnasse, 1895, public domain

Well, not such good progress the past couple of weeks:  sat down at the machine a few times, then ended up doing other stuff rather than the edit.  Especially as there were a few IT issues.  So I only managed to edit up to chapter 15 inclusive.  But I did write a short story for a competition on a blog, The Cult of Me, which runs 500 word story comps every month, based on an image.  I had looked at the competitions previously and couldn’t get “inspired”, and it was the same this time so I just started writing and a story started to unfold.  It was a non story at first, with no real conclusion, then went in a slightly unexpected direction, assisted by the expressions on the faces of the audience in the illustration as they listened to the man reading from a book.

I have started doing small challenges like this lately, on SFF Chronicles to start with, and now this one.  It gets the subconscious working in a different way and I think is a good idea, because you can get a bit stale when you’ve been going over and over the same MS, as I have.  And this week I submitted an entry for the March SFF 75 word challenge.

Also this week I finally received the ‘thanks but  no thanks’ emails I was expecting for my two entries to the Hodderscape Open Submission, which had been pending since last August.  I think I didn’t do badly; after all, there were 1500 entries, and mine both hung in there after the initial sift, where the writers were all notified by 31st December.  The 600 entries that remained in were all undergoing second reads, prior to whittling down once more, this time to 100 in total.  So I think I did all right to have two novels pass that initial weeding out.  I’m not disappointed, having decided some time ago to go down the self publishing route.  It was just a last attempt at traditional publishing, considering that main publishers do not now permit unagented submissions apart from these rare open doors, and it is extremely difficult to get an agent.  So it was worth having a try at it and I’m pleased that I made the effort and at least wasn’t binned out in the first tranche.

As far as getting on with the novel, I’ve signed up for CampNaNoWriMo and I’m in a cabin with two online friends so hopefully we’ll be able to spur each other on.

So the goals:

  1.  Complete the novel edit by end March – not looking that likely now (!) but I hope to get a few more chapters done over the Easter weekend, or what’s left of it.
  2. Work out how to format a Kindle book including the front and end pages and what to put in those – have done a bit of reading about this; looks complicated as people say just uploading a Word document doesn’t cut it, and it might be necessary to do search/replace in the HTML version.  Need to look further into it.

 

Apparently this is the end of Round 1 of ROW80.  Anyway, here are the latest ROW80 postings:

Chipping Away at the Stone

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Stone cutting toolsSo … at last I re-embarked on the edit after the vast number of distractions in the past two months.  Went over the first four chapters again with some more nitpicking things recommended this time on SFF Chronicles, such as overuse of common words.  That just about met my last ROW80 target, though I went over by a couple of days.

Since then, I’ve managed to carry out that exercise plus the original nitpickers I was looking for and the change of tabbed layout to style based layout, right up to the end of Chapter Thirteen.  I’ve also reworked some sections of scenes to improve and tighten up the language.  This is despite a couple of Word crashes where Word went beserk and started deleting all the text ahead of the cursor! So I am getting there slowly.  I do tend to get sidetracked into too much Goodreads and other social media use, but I’ve got round that the last week or so by making sure I’ve edited at least one chapter before going onto anything distracting, even email.  That’s helped.  Not sure yet that I am going to manage the whole edit by the end of this month, but I’m finally seeing some progress.

As well as this, I took an hour out today to work on another ‘short’ for the latest SFF Chronicles 75 word Writing Challenge.  Didn’t think I would be able to come up with something for the theme and genre this time, then realised I could tie it into the backstory of my novel.  So that worked out OK.

My other writing related activity this week was to do a few critiques, as I’m a member of a small email based writing group where we circulate a couple of chapters every two months.  I’m sending round the first draft of a novel that I worked on during 2013-2014 including the NaNoWriMos in those years.  So I’m accumulating a nice pile of comments from my alpha writers which I’m looking forward to tackling when I can get back to that novel.

Away from the writing stone quarry, I’m making steady progress with my goal of reading a huge pile of old SF and fantasy books collected over the years.  I’m recording that progress on Goodreads (button on the sidebar if you’re interested).  Of course, I could be accused of reading too much!

Right, here are the goals:

  1. Return to the edit and get the next 4 chapters rechecked for the nitpicking edits, by the end of next week – done
  2. Continue the edit and get it done by end March (fingers crossed) – about a third of the way through so far
  3. Work out how to format a Kindle book including the front and end pages and what to put in those

And here’s the latest batch of ROW80 updates – enjoy!

Buzzing Around the Tree of Life

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Bee on sunflower by Kincse_j PixabayOK, so I finally managed to upgrade this main site.  Had some issues (as I knew I would because my other sites don’t have blogs), but I managed to resolve them all or found acceptable workrounds, apart from one that is beyond my control (see below re the ROW80 links).  The job is now done and can be ticked off the to-do list and possibly I can now find a bit of concentration to return to the painstaking final edit!  Should have put the website upgrade down as a ROW80 goal 😉

Anyway, I’ve been a busy bee this week with that, though again getting sidetracked into the ways of Facebook et al.  Goodreads is the main time consumer, though sometimes I get interested in a long discussion on the SFF Chronicles forum.  Must be more focused!

Talking of SFF Chronicles, I haven’t mentioned that I’ve been entering their competitions for short-shorts.  So far, I’ve submitted entries to the January and February 75 word stories, which always set both a theme and a genre, and the January 300 word competition, which seems to use an image as inspiration, at least so far as I can judge.  Once each competition closes for voting, I’m officially free to post my entries here, so I’m putting them on the Short Stories page for now.  I may reorganise that if it gets too unwieldy.  So I’ve done some new writing this week – for the February 75 worder – albeit it wasn’t a great deal.  I haven’t received a vote yet, but have been shortlisted by quite a few people and had some nice comments.

Haven’t actually made progress on the ROW80 goals so they are still as per last time:

  1. Return to the edit and get the next 4 chapters rechecked for the nitpicking edits, by the end of next week.
  2. Continue the edit and get it done by end March (fingers crossed)
  3. Work out how to format a Kindle book including the front and end pages and what to put in those

One slight quirk with the website upgrade I’ve had which I don’t know how to resolve is that the script used to display the ROW80 participants information used to be set out with a table framing it, and now isn’t.  As that is something to do with how the ROW80 script interacts with the new theme, I don’t have a way of fixing that, so I hope it is still fairly readable.  So  here they are, those nice ROW80 people:

Swan Legs Peddling

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Swan on blue lake

by PublicDomainImages on Pixabay

You know the old cliche about the swan?  All serene on the surface and peddling away like mad beneath?  It’s been a bit like that this week, what with the distraction of Goodreads, Facebook and other forum posting.  But something has been happening behind the scenes, without being visible or furthering the cause of editing the WIP, unfortunately.  Another call upon the time of the writer of today: maintaining websites.

As this is a bit of an anorack subject, I won’t bore you with the details, but I needed to upgrade my websites to a new theme, the old one being discontinued.  I did the two imprint sites in October, but didn’t manage to get round to doing the same on my pen name site until earlier this week.  Finally, I’ve been able to start to tackle the main site, this one, which has a lot more content than any of the others.  As with them, I’m doing a test migration first, so I’ve been setting up the test site as a clone, and had a few glitches that I didn’t have before with the others.  However, it is now set up ready to do the migration.  Once I’m happy all is OK and I know what to do on the main site, I’ll be doing this one and hopefully that will be one backroom job ticked off my to do list.

Once I’ve got that out of the way, I fully intend to get back to the editing because time is running out to complete my goal of another four chapters fully edited by the end of next week.

In the meantime, I’ve been reading with my researcher’s hat on, and checked what a new publisher has to do to obtain ISBNs from Nielsen (the company that supplies them in the UK).  As well as completing the relevant form, I also need to supply dummy title and copyright pages for the first book I intend to publish.  Nielsen provide ISBNs either in batches of 10 or 100, depending on your publishing plans over the next two to three years.  The publishing plan must be realistic and achievable.  It works out a lot cheaper to buy 100 because that costs only about twice the price of 10, but Nielsen reserve the right to determine what they sell you.  You need an ISBN for each edition of a book, but it seems that if you publish on Kindle, the ASIN supplied by Amazon will do, and you don’t need an ISBN as well.  I have heard this from a number of sources, but need to be sure it is correct as the whole point of creating imprint sites and paying for logos is so that my book listings on sales sites look professional.  I know that if you don’t do this, and publish a Print on Demand version on CreateSpace, for example, then CreateSpace shows as the publisher.

As I need to set the publication date of the first novel, I can’t apply to Nielsen yet, because I have to get this final edit done and then obtain some quotes from pro editors to see how affordable it is.  So far, I’ve calculated, from those who give pricing information, that an edit of a book this long would work out well over £1K, which is not feasible, so we’ll have to see.

So, to the ROW80 goals:

  1. Return to the edit and get the next 4 chapters rechecked for the nitpicking edits, by the end of next week.
  2. Continue the edit and get it done by end March (fingers crossed)
  3. Work out how to format a Kindle book including the front and end pages and what to put in those

And here are those nice ROW80 people:

Building an Author Platform

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Extract from Pam Baddeley Facebook PageOver the last few years, authors have been bombarded with the ‘advice’ that they must have an author platform, consisting of a blog, Facebook account, Twitter account and quite often accounts on other sites such as Goodreads.  The corresponding moan among writers is that these things take up a huge amount of time and don’t allow you to write, which is the whole point of things after all!

Up till now, I’ve been a bit slow getting going.  On the plus side, I did start this blog a few years ago, but even with regular blogging – and I’m first to admit that has been rather remiss over the last 18 months – the time has long gone when people could get massive followings to blogs if they were not already famous.  So this site is more a way of sharing my experience with anyone who might be interested in my writing process and my books when they appear, than a means of selling books eventually.

Some years ago, I became aware of Goodreads when I realised that my short story which formed part of the Decalog 2 Doctor Who anthology appeared on a book page there – except that it was mixed up with the books of another person of the same name.  I contacted GR and got that sorted out, so that the book no longer appeared on that author’s page.  But I didn’t follow up at the time.  Then I began reading about how to bring your books to the attention of readers, and one of the recommendations was to be active on Goodreads.  As the site looked rather confusing, I bought a course on Udemy on how to use Goodreads as an author, but made only a slow start on that.  Finally, in May last year I joined the site and more or less taught myself from lurking around and picking up tips.  Again, I’m obviously not on there to ‘flog a book’ as I don’t even have one out yet, so I have joined a few relevant groups and participate regularly, plus I record the books I’m reading, and write reviews on them.  Anyone interested can find me by clicking the Goodreads button in the right-hand side bar (scroll down a bit and it’s under the heading ‘My Reading on Goodreads’).

The trouble is, it is rather a time suck, and I find whole hours have gone by while I’ve browsed threads, read about other authors’ experiences with marketing, and typed up some longish reviews.

I recently discovered a good forum for science fiction and fantasy writers:  SFF Chronicles.  I’ve joined the community there, posting whenever I can add something useful, and have written a couple of short-shorts for the competitions:  75 word and 300 word stories.  Again, that takes up some time though far less than GR.

So that brings me to Facebook and Twitter, which are the main elements of an author platform and, from everything I’ve read, the real time sucks.  Despite that misgiving, I joined FB this week and set up pages for my two writing IDs.  Those are the ones I’m using for activity; I’m not posting personal information over there.  Real life friends and family by and large are not on there at all or have neglected accounts, and we interact with more personal and less techie methods, such as phoning, or even (gasp) meeting in person 😉

I had a bit of a struggle to set up Goodreads integration on my Pam Baddeley FB page – the course instructions didn’t work, because the method through Facebook it describes produced a broken dropdown that didn’t show my pages.  It was a help article in GR that directed me to a link at the bottom of the author dashboard in GR itself that worked a treat.  Having finally got that working, I wondered if I could set up something on this blog that would enable me to post my blog posts automatically to the FB page.  That led to a few hours of research into plugins, principally on the WordPress.org site.  Most had problems pointed out in one-star reviews, ranging from slowing down page loads for users to plugins that crashed/corrupted the website itself, to those with downright dodgy behaviour.

At the same time I was also looking for a lightweight plugin that would put social media sharing buttons on the blog posts, without needing a lot of handcranking behind the scenes, which I presume I would have to redo every time I have to update my WP theme.  Nor did I want to pay expensive annual fees demanded by some of the plugin vendors.  I’m not a cheapskate, but I am a writer who has earned nowt through writing yet, and the expenses have been piling up!

After a lot of checking and dismissing, I finally came across the one I’ve installed today.  It’s not 100% perfect because the ‘mail’ option brings up an error that a particular DLL file isn’t installed on the computer so I’ve abandoned the idea of using that button, but it does at least provide simple buttons to connect to popular sites and I’ve also discovered that if I’m logged into FB, it automatically picks up that I’m using my page ID and creates a nicely formatted link with some space for me to type in an introduction.  Then it posts it into my page.  So that saves me the work of having to manually create an update in FB, and I think I won’t bother with an auto poster now; I can just use the FB share button whenever I publish a post.  So many thanks to the developers.

My next challenge will be creating a Twitter account and working out how best to use that.  Some folks on GR recommend tweeting several times a day; that isn’t for me, and I wonder if it might put people off.  I’m especially aware that ‘buy my book’ messages of any sort are going to be a total turnoff for most recipients, whether the medium is Twitter or an email.  Also, I’m not sure if writer enclaves are the best place to hang out on Twitter; I intend to believe the advice that it’s more important to connect with readers who, after all, are the audience all writers want to reach.  So as before, I intend to be helpful, to post only where I can add value, and to publicise useful resources that other writers have made available.  I hope to keep my attendance on there at a manageable level.  I do after all want to get on with writing, and haven’t had much chance of that this week, although I have managed a final edit on five chapters which isn’t bad going.

So, to the ROW80 goals:

  1. Return to the edit and get at least the first 4 chapters rechecked for the nitpicking edits, in the next fortnight – done.
  2. Continue the edit and get it done by end March (fingers crossed)
  3. Work out how to format a Kindle book including the front and end pages and what to put in those
  4. Edit another 4 chapters in the next fortnight

And here are those nice ROW80 people:

Must Try Harder….

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NaNoWriMo Final Win graphic… or something.  Despite best intentions, I have not managed to blog for nearly six months (groan) after two posts in July, one of which represented a lot of research into book covers that I thought people would find useful, so it was disappointing not to receive feedback.

Never mind!  This isn’t meant to be a right old moan.  Instead, I want to do a catchup to cover what I’ve been doing writing-wise, which isn’t as much as I wanted, due to health issues.  But I did at least manage NaNoWriMo in November, which I did as a rebel, because I wanted to continue the edit of the first novel I am intending to self publish.  That went well and I ‘won’ with a healthy margin to spare, despite lagging behind initially.  I even managed to do a bit more after taking the screenshot above, so overall was pleased with my progress.

After that, I started to go through the novel from the beginning again to try to see if certain nitpicking grammatical and passive tense type things have been addressed.  Unfortunately, preparations for Christmas got in the way, and then a dose of ‘flu, as well as other issues.  So I haven’t got back into it properly yet, though I am trying my very hardest.

Other things have been distracting I must admit, such as following forums on Goodreads, and a great forum I discovered, SFF Chronicles.  I don’t know where authors are meant to find time for such things as FaceBook, Twitter and you-name-it.  And whether it actually rewards us in proportion to the time and effort spent away from writing.  But if anyone is interested in the reviews I have posted of books I’m reading in an attempt to declutter (paperback fiction), you can find them at Goodreads.

As well as fiction, I’ve been doing a lot of reading, mainly online, about marketing, promotion and the new buzzword, discoverability.  In fact, I am part way through reading a very good book about the latter, in its Kindle version – Discoverability by Kristine Katherine Rusch.  Although it is aimed at people with several books already published, and would undoubtedly benefit those with a range of novels, it also has some sage advice for writers who have not yet dipped a toe into self publishing, for example, on the importance of defining the correct categories to use when tagging your book in Amazon.  Quite a few of its lessons would benefit people just starting out, and I hope to apply them and be able to draw more benefit from the book as I am able to bring out more of my novels.

Just realised I’m in time for the beginning of a new quarter of ROW80, Round the World in 80 Words.  So I need to set out some goals:

  1. Return to the edit and get at least the first 4 chapters rechecked for the nitpicking edits, in the next fortnight
  2. Continue the edit and get it done by end March (fingers crossed)
  3. Work out how to format a Kindle book including the front and end pages and what to put in those

I forgot to mention that I did complete one of my July goals:  to submit ‘Rian’ to the Hodderscape Open Submission.  So far, I’ve heard nothing back, but according to an update on their website, anyone who did not hear back by the end of 2015 is actually having their submission read for the second time!

Anyway, to showcase those nice folks at ROW80 –