Mary Sisson's Blog, page 42
July 15, 2018
Progress report
It's been busy, and it's going to get busy again, but today I wrote 1,340 words!
June 25, 2018
If you're a Smashwords sort of person
I went ahead and popped The Weirld into their Summer/Winter sale, so for the month of July it will be free there (whoooooo)! Since I don't have a sequel to sell, it's not, like, sensible marketing or anything, but I felt like, Why not?
June 18, 2018
Yup
Via Lindsay Buroker, here's an interesting run-through of what is going on in the science fiction & fantasy field, with a special emphasis on what's NOT getting measured via traditional industry measures.
June 17, 2018
June 16, 2018
Progress report
1,550 words! Whoo!
I actually didn't get much sleep last night (it's high allergy season right now), but the cool thing about nearing the end is that I don't have to worry so much about keeping all the background stuff straight.
June 12, 2018
Progress report
I managed to get some work done today on Trials--mainly going over stuff already written and getting my notes in order (and by that, I mean throwing away 99% of them, because I'm far enough along that I know what I'm going to include and what I'm not going to include). The next few days will probably be a bit busy, but hopefully I can get some work done--I did better today than I thought I would!
June 11, 2018
X-ray vision!
The family busyness is still happening and will continue to require some attention, but I also took some time to put together those Amazon Kindle "X Rays." I'd never bothered before, but honestly, I have trouble remembering who everyone in the Trang series is, and then The Weirld is supposed to be accessible to younger readers, who of course need a little help knowing who Gracie Allen is. So I went through and did that. It's a little tedious but also kind of funny--I have to be careful to explain who someone is without giving away spoilers!
June 10, 2018
Whoo!
All right! The Weirld still isn't EXACTLY perfect on Smashwords, but 1. it meets standards to be distributed to other retailers, and 2. it looks good enough that I'm not going to worry about it. I went back and used a different source file, and that did the trick.
June 9, 2018
Oh my God, Smashwords
OK, Smashwords is officially driving me crazy. It was the easier one to use back when I was doing the Trang books, but it does NOT play well with illustrations, boy howdy. I'm realizing that I'm going to have to upload one version to be converted into everything, and then upload a special .epub version so that the .epub isn't completely fucked. Uuuuuugggghh......
ETA: OK, at this point The Weirld is on Smashwords itself, and seems fairly decent (like, it's readable, although not necessarily beautiful) in all formats. However, I don't know if I'll be able to set it up so that it can be offered at other retailers through Smashwords. Do I care? Should I just upload it directly? At the moment, I think this is one of those problems I'm going to kick down the road, because I'd rather focus on Trials.
June 8, 2018
$%!
There's a sudden squall here of family matters--hoping to dig out of it sooner rather than later....
