Month Seven as a Full-Time Author
Ah, July, my old nemesis. You did not get the best of me! Well, mostly not. I mean, I got a few things accomplished. Despite all your efforts to thwart me.
Wins:
- Released Spoiled Gambit, the very last novella in my Jagged Scars series
- I blogged every week
- I finished New Vision (New Sight book 3) and sent it to my editor.
- I put quite a bit of time into my next series. YA Space Opera. You’re going to love it!
- I helped three friends out by reading their books/novellas as a beta reader
- It was my birthday, and for my birthday I asked for 43 reviews on Fractured Memories by the end of the month. That worked out! (Unless Amazon takes some of them down, which it does sometimes.)
- I hit triple digits in sales for the second month in a row!
Not so much wins:
- I will be at FanX (the event formally known as Salt Lake City ComiCon) in September. In order to receive hard copies of the last book of my New Sight series, I had to have it out to the editor this past weekend. This whole process—coupled with several other things going on—left me with a two week long migraine that still hasn’t quit.
- Marketing flew out the window. Like a bird.
- I broke my Flash Fiction Friday streak last week, because I was spending 10 hours a day working on New Vision.
I knew July was going to be tough going in. Between family stuff, holidays, vacations and some community service that I do every July, I only had something like fourteen writing days to work with. Considering twenty or so is the usual amount, I started out in a bad spot.
Still, I got some things done. I didn’t get other things done. Thus it is in the life of Author Jo.
Stay tuned this month (or early next month) for a few things:
- New covers for New Sight and New Powers
- The release of New Vision—the third and final book in my New Sight series
- The release of Fractured Sea, a collection of five Little Mermaid retellings in which I have a super fun one-part high school anime and one-part Harry Potter story called The Academy. Several people that have read it have already have asked when the next one will be out. My lips are sealed…
Don’t forget, Fractured Sea is on pre-order for $0.99 until the release date of August 31st.
