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March 3, 2013
Pantsing, Plotting, and the Daughter of the Wildings
As mentioned earlier, I am within shouting distance--probably a few thousand words--of finishing the first draft of Book 2 of the Daughter of the Wildings series. (No title yet; I'm not very good at coming up with titles.) Although I love the characters, the setting, and the whole idea behind this series, this book, like the first, has been kind of a terrifying adventure to write.
There are generally considered to be two basic approaches to writing fiction. "Pantsing" (short for writing by the seat of your pants) means you sit down with maybe just a basic idea and make it up out of nothing as you go along. "Plotting" (also known as "planning") means that you've planned the story out ahead of time, you have an outline of the events of the story and all the who, how, when, what, where, and why figured out before you start writing. This isn't an either/or thing; it's more like a spectrum, ranging from people who say they sit down with nothing more than a title or a character's name in mind and start writing from there, to people who have planned exactly what will happen for every 100 words of story. Most writers will fall somewhere between these two extremes. Which way is better? Neither. It just depends on how the writer's mind works, their comfort level with not knowing ahead of time what they're going to write, and, to an extent, what they're writing. For example, an intricate mystery novel probably requires more advance planning than does a stream-of-consciousness literary novel.
I'm more comfortable plotting. Not in extreme detail, but I do like to have a good idea of what comes next and where things are headed when I sit down to write. I'll start a novel with the beginning, the ending (or at least a general idea of how I want things to turn out) and most of the major and minor events of the story written down on notecards or as bullet points in a document. Things will change from time to time as the story details develop, but generally I know where I am and where I'm going.
But writing the first two books of the Daughter of the Wildings series has been completely different from this. All I had to start them was a basic idea of the first scene or two, and the basic premise. With the first book, I only had a vague idea of what was going to happen next through most of the story and I really had no idea how it was going to end, and the ending completely surprised me--for one thing, Beneath the Canyons was supposed to be a stand-alone novel, but the ending opened up more questions than it answered. Ta-da, instant birth of a series.
Once I had an idea of the general story arc of the whole series, I knew pretty much where Book 2 had to end up. And I had the first scene in mind (which now turns out to be the second scene). Again, I found myself stumbling from scene to scene not knowing what was going to happen next, and finding some surprises along the way. I wrote about some of them in an earlier post--Silas looking at some events and drawing a different and much more logical conclusion than the one I had planned for him to come to, and then the day when he pretended he had no idea what he was doing and then decided he did. (This was when the book almost got titled "Silas meets one of the awful fates from the 'apologizing to your characters for the horrible things you've done to them' thread on the National Novel Writing Month Boards".) Then the biggest surprise of all--when it came time to confront the bad guy, it turned out the bad guy wasn't who I thought it was!
So, a mix of panic with, "Hey, this could be really cool," and I decided it would work. And it does, and the ending is falling into place perfectly now. I don't understand why the books in this series are turning out to be so hard to plan. I don't like that mind-numbing, stomach-wrenching feeling of writing the last paragraph of what I know, and then trying to think of what comes next. But now that I look back over the story, I can see where, in the process of desperately trying to make things up as I lurched from paragraph to paragraph, I've done some really interesting things with the world, the characters' situations, and some plot threads from the first book. So, hooray.
This is why my plan is to have all five books (at least, I think it's going to be five) written before I start revising and releasing them. Since I don't know what's going to happen in the future of the storyline, I need to be able to go back and make adjustments to earlier books to match. But when it's done, you'll be able to start reading the series knowing that it's done and that the story isn't going to go off the rails right in the middle. The going off the rails will have already happened and been dealt with.
On another note, if you like the idea of a mixed-genre western with an unlikely couple as the main characters, I strongly recommend reading Camille Laguire's Mick and Casey stories: Have Gun, Will Play (novel), The Curse of Scattershale Gulch (novelette), and two of the stories in Waiter, There's a Clue in My Soup. Plus she's going to be posting a new Mick and Casey serial in March!
There are generally considered to be two basic approaches to writing fiction. "Pantsing" (short for writing by the seat of your pants) means you sit down with maybe just a basic idea and make it up out of nothing as you go along. "Plotting" (also known as "planning") means that you've planned the story out ahead of time, you have an outline of the events of the story and all the who, how, when, what, where, and why figured out before you start writing. This isn't an either/or thing; it's more like a spectrum, ranging from people who say they sit down with nothing more than a title or a character's name in mind and start writing from there, to people who have planned exactly what will happen for every 100 words of story. Most writers will fall somewhere between these two extremes. Which way is better? Neither. It just depends on how the writer's mind works, their comfort level with not knowing ahead of time what they're going to write, and, to an extent, what they're writing. For example, an intricate mystery novel probably requires more advance planning than does a stream-of-consciousness literary novel.
I'm more comfortable plotting. Not in extreme detail, but I do like to have a good idea of what comes next and where things are headed when I sit down to write. I'll start a novel with the beginning, the ending (or at least a general idea of how I want things to turn out) and most of the major and minor events of the story written down on notecards or as bullet points in a document. Things will change from time to time as the story details develop, but generally I know where I am and where I'm going.
But writing the first two books of the Daughter of the Wildings series has been completely different from this. All I had to start them was a basic idea of the first scene or two, and the basic premise. With the first book, I only had a vague idea of what was going to happen next through most of the story and I really had no idea how it was going to end, and the ending completely surprised me--for one thing, Beneath the Canyons was supposed to be a stand-alone novel, but the ending opened up more questions than it answered. Ta-da, instant birth of a series.
Once I had an idea of the general story arc of the whole series, I knew pretty much where Book 2 had to end up. And I had the first scene in mind (which now turns out to be the second scene). Again, I found myself stumbling from scene to scene not knowing what was going to happen next, and finding some surprises along the way. I wrote about some of them in an earlier post--Silas looking at some events and drawing a different and much more logical conclusion than the one I had planned for him to come to, and then the day when he pretended he had no idea what he was doing and then decided he did. (This was when the book almost got titled "Silas meets one of the awful fates from the 'apologizing to your characters for the horrible things you've done to them' thread on the National Novel Writing Month Boards".) Then the biggest surprise of all--when it came time to confront the bad guy, it turned out the bad guy wasn't who I thought it was!
So, a mix of panic with, "Hey, this could be really cool," and I decided it would work. And it does, and the ending is falling into place perfectly now. I don't understand why the books in this series are turning out to be so hard to plan. I don't like that mind-numbing, stomach-wrenching feeling of writing the last paragraph of what I know, and then trying to think of what comes next. But now that I look back over the story, I can see where, in the process of desperately trying to make things up as I lurched from paragraph to paragraph, I've done some really interesting things with the world, the characters' situations, and some plot threads from the first book. So, hooray.
This is why my plan is to have all five books (at least, I think it's going to be five) written before I start revising and releasing them. Since I don't know what's going to happen in the future of the storyline, I need to be able to go back and make adjustments to earlier books to match. But when it's done, you'll be able to start reading the series knowing that it's done and that the story isn't going to go off the rails right in the middle. The going off the rails will have already happened and been dealt with.
On another note, if you like the idea of a mixed-genre western with an unlikely couple as the main characters, I strongly recommend reading Camille Laguire's Mick and Casey stories: Have Gun, Will Play (novel), The Curse of Scattershale Gulch (novelette), and two of the stories in Waiter, There's a Clue in My Soup. Plus she's going to be posting a new Mick and Casey serial in March!
Cure for Nel Still Free, and Urdaisunia Free Sample
In today's news: A Cure for Nel, and Other Stories is still free at Amazon, through March 5th. This collection contains three stories: "The Peach Tree" and "You Can't Take It With You," which were posted on this site for a while, and a previously unpublished story, "A Cure For Nel," which takes place in the same world as my forthcoming novel
Chosen of Azara
. A short story collection on your smartphone, tablet, or ereader is a great way to pass the time while you're waiting at the doctor's office or riding the bus, and a free short story collection lets you try out a new writer with no risk but a few minutes of your time.
More free sampling: I'm continuing to post chapters of Urdaisunia, if you've been reading it serial-style here on the site. Watch for two or three new chapters a week, with up to three chapters (not including the prologue and Chapter 1) available at any one time.
Also, I'm within shouting distance (a few thousand words) of finishing the rough draft of Daughter of the Wildings Book 2. But that's a whole other post.
More free sampling: I'm continuing to post chapters of Urdaisunia, if you've been reading it serial-style here on the site. Watch for two or three new chapters a week, with up to three chapters (not including the prologue and Chapter 1) available at any one time.
Also, I'm within shouting distance (a few thousand words) of finishing the rough draft of Daughter of the Wildings Book 2. But that's a whole other post.
March 1, 2013
February 26, 2013
Characters - Love 'em, Hate 'em, Whack 'em With a Shovel and Bury Them Out Back?
The relationship between an author and their characters can be surprisingly complicated. It isn't just a matter of making up a name, age, and gender, plugging in a few personality traits, and then making them do what you want. No, when you've done it right, the character actually takes on a life of his/her own.
Usually this is a good thing, but not always.
So I'm working on the draft of book 2 of the Daughter of the Wildings series. Silas Vendine is one of my favorite characters ever, but, well, things have not been all bunnies and rainbows.
Sometimes a character is smarter than you. This happened the other day. Silas is supposed to consider some facts, come to a conclusion, and then embark on a course of action. Seems easy, right? Well, he got through the considering all the facts part, then came to a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONCLUSION from the one in the story outline! And to make things even worse, it was a much more logical conclusion than the one I wanted him to come to!
In short, my character had seen something that I had completely missed. Panic ensued - was I going to have to trash my whole outline and start over again? I calmed myself down and worked it through, and happily realized that things can still proceed as planned, just from a different (and much more interesting) angle. So, ok. Good boy, Silas.
Then yesterday, Silas is on the trail of a bad guy, and can't find a sign of him anywhere. I'm going, "What do you MEAN you can't find anything? YOU'RE the big-time bounty hunter!" and Silas is going, "Um, nope nope, can't do that, nope." (Imagine Mr. Tall Dark and Handsome Bounty Hunter saying this in the best Goofy voice you can think of. That's what it was like.) So I slogged through my 2000-word quota for the day, desperately trying to think of good reasons why Mr. Big-Time Bounty Hunter is clueless (remember, he's not just an awesome bounty hunter, he's a MAGICAL awesome bounty hunter), then when I finally finish for the day he goes, "Ha ha, just joking, I picked up on something way back there, let's go back three days and start all over again."
I don't like to kill off major characters, but sometimes it's tempting.
The writing session today started with evaluating how much of yesterday's hard-won word count can be salvaged after this revelation from Silas that he actually knew what he was doing all along, and fortunately the damage isn't too bad. Just a matter of deleting or re-writing a few paragraphs, and it's fixed and we can move on.
So, Silas, buddy, you get a reprieve this time. But watch youself after this. *evil grin*
In other news, A Cure for Nel, and Other Stories, is now available for Kindle on Amazon. The regular price is only $0.99, and it's free to borrow through Kindle Owners Lending Library if you have Amazon Prime. And watch for a free giveaway March 1-5!
Finally, I'll leave you with my Daughter of the Wildings mood music:
Danger Days, by My Chemical Romance, with just a dash of Green Day and Muse.
Usually this is a good thing, but not always.
So I'm working on the draft of book 2 of the Daughter of the Wildings series. Silas Vendine is one of my favorite characters ever, but, well, things have not been all bunnies and rainbows.
Sometimes a character is smarter than you. This happened the other day. Silas is supposed to consider some facts, come to a conclusion, and then embark on a course of action. Seems easy, right? Well, he got through the considering all the facts part, then came to a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONCLUSION from the one in the story outline! And to make things even worse, it was a much more logical conclusion than the one I wanted him to come to!
In short, my character had seen something that I had completely missed. Panic ensued - was I going to have to trash my whole outline and start over again? I calmed myself down and worked it through, and happily realized that things can still proceed as planned, just from a different (and much more interesting) angle. So, ok. Good boy, Silas.
Then yesterday, Silas is on the trail of a bad guy, and can't find a sign of him anywhere. I'm going, "What do you MEAN you can't find anything? YOU'RE the big-time bounty hunter!" and Silas is going, "Um, nope nope, can't do that, nope." (Imagine Mr. Tall Dark and Handsome Bounty Hunter saying this in the best Goofy voice you can think of. That's what it was like.) So I slogged through my 2000-word quota for the day, desperately trying to think of good reasons why Mr. Big-Time Bounty Hunter is clueless (remember, he's not just an awesome bounty hunter, he's a MAGICAL awesome bounty hunter), then when I finally finish for the day he goes, "Ha ha, just joking, I picked up on something way back there, let's go back three days and start all over again."
I don't like to kill off major characters, but sometimes it's tempting.
The writing session today started with evaluating how much of yesterday's hard-won word count can be salvaged after this revelation from Silas that he actually knew what he was doing all along, and fortunately the damage isn't too bad. Just a matter of deleting or re-writing a few paragraphs, and it's fixed and we can move on.
So, Silas, buddy, you get a reprieve this time. But watch youself after this. *evil grin*
In other news, A Cure for Nel, and Other Stories, is now available for Kindle on Amazon. The regular price is only $0.99, and it's free to borrow through Kindle Owners Lending Library if you have Amazon Prime. And watch for a free giveaway March 1-5!
Finally, I'll leave you with my Daughter of the Wildings mood music:
Danger Days, by My Chemical Romance, with just a dash of Green Day and Muse.
February 22, 2013
Urdaisunia Now Available at Barnes & Noble
Urdaisunia is now available for the Nook at Barnes & Noble. Also, Chapter 4 is now available on the site for your free sampling enjoyment.
And a reminder - "The Peach Tree" and "Can't Take It With You" will be coming down in a day or two in preparation for going into the KDP Select program on Amazon. It will be available through the Amazon Prime Kindle Owner's Lending Library, and I'll be doing a five-day free giveaway sometime in the next few weeks. Watch for it!
And a reminder - "The Peach Tree" and "Can't Take It With You" will be coming down in a day or two in preparation for going into the KDP Select program on Amazon. It will be available through the Amazon Prime Kindle Owner's Lending Library, and I'll be doing a five-day free giveaway sometime in the next few weeks. Watch for it!
Urdaisunia Paperback Now Available on CreateSpace
The paperback edition of Urdaisunia is now available directly from CreateSpace, and should go live on Amazon within a week. This is a beautiful trade paperback edition, priced at $10.99.
February 20, 2013
Urdaisunia Proof Copy! and news updates
My proof copy of the paperback edition of Urdaisunia came today. It's beautiful! Once I give it a good looking over and approve it, it should hopefully become available very soon. It's a trade-size paperback, and will be priced at $10.99 (U.S.). I'll update the Amazon buy link once it's available.In other news: I'm still waiting for Urdaisunia to make its way through the Smashwords sales channels to the Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Apple, and Sony online stores. I'll add buy links as it goes live on those sites.
In the meantime, Chapter 3 of Urdaisunia is now posted for your free sampling enjoyment. I'll continue to post 2-3 chapters a week, with three chapters available at a time, for sampling and free serial-style reading.
I'm working on a short story collection which will include "The Peach Tree" and "You Can't Take It With You," along with a previously-unpublished story, "A Cure For Nel," which is set in the same world as my forthcoming novel Chosen of Azara. (Completely different story and characters, though.) I'm going to experiment with putting this collection in Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing Select program, which will allow me to offer it for free five days out of a ninety-day period, and will also make it available in the Kindle Prime lending library. The downside is that the work has to be exclusive to Amazon while it's enrolled in the KDP Select program, which means that "The Peach Tree" and "You Can't Take It With You" will have to come down from this site. If you want to read them free online, you've got a few more days before they disappear. After that, I'll announce when the collection will be available for free from Amazon, and when it isn't free it'll be only $0.99.
But, you say, I don't have a Kindle! Never fear: here are a couple of different solutions. One is that you can download the free Kindle reading app for your computer, tablet, or smartphone (Android or Apple) and read through that. The other is, my ebooks are free of DRM, meaning that you can buy them from Amazon and use free Calibre ebook management software to easily convert them to your preferred format (epub for most other e-readers).
I'm curious to see if the KDP Select program offers any advantages as far as promotion and visibility are concerned. So I'll keep this collection in the program for a couple of 90-day cycles and see how it works. After that I'll decide whether to keep it in the program or make the stories non-exclusive again.
And in other news, The Lost Book of Anggird is out to the test-readers, and Chosen of Azara is undergoing a quality-check revision pass. It's already been pretty well worked-over, and I had it posted on my old website for a long time. I'm not finding too many problems, but it could still use a little work to bring it up to a more professional level. I'm not planning on sending it out to test-readers, and will hopefully have it ready to release in May or June.
I've also started writing Book 2 (as yet untitled) of Daughter of the Wildings . For months now, Silas and Lainie have been jumping up and down, waving their arms at me and going, "Hey, did you forget about us?" So it's good to finally be paying attention to them again. Like the first book, Beneath the Canyons, this one is kind of scary because I have a vague idea of what it's all about and where it'll end up but not nearly as many details as I would feel comfortable with to fill out a whole novel. I'm hoping that like with the first book, it'll all come to me as I write. It's a fun setting to write in, and Silas's voice is also a lot of fun. I read the draft of Beneath the Canyons last weekend for the first time since I wrote it a year and a half ago, and I had forgotten how very cool it is.
Thanks to digital self-publishing and print-on-demand, this is a tremendously exciting time to be a writer, and it's a dream come true for me to be able to share my stories with other people on my own terms without having to wait for anyone else's approval. I hope you'll join me on the adventure, and enjoy reading my stories as much as I enjoy writing them!
February 16, 2013
Adventures in DIY Publishing
I knew that getting Urdaisunia formatted and ready for release would be a learning curve. It ended up taking two weeks. But I've learned a few things that will hopefully cut that time down to two days with the next time. Other things, however, remain a mystery.
What I've learned:
1. Command line programs are not my friend. This was what brought me down to crashing defeat in my attempt to completely build an e-book by hand. The very last step is to compress all the different files into a zip file, using a command line zip program because there's one tiny little line of code in its own file that has to go in first and end up at the very top of the zipped file. I followed the instructions exactly, but I just couldn't get that bugger to go in right. I'd run the program, compress my files, run it through the epub validator, and keep coming back with just that one little error. And that one error, that one little 20-byte file, made the ebook unusable. Otherwise it was perfect. *sigh* So I backed up and used the very beautifully-written html and css that I came out of the process with, and learned my next lesson:
2. CSS is my friend, and I can do it. I'd been trying to learn CSS for years and could never quite grasp it, but for some reason the way it's laid out in The eBook Design and Development Guide by Paul Salvette clicked for me. Following the instructions in the guide (and applying the principles to adjust a few things, like my smallcaps, that weren't working right) I ended up with html/CSS files that converted beautifully when I did find conversion methods that worked for me. I'm proud of the formatting in my ebooks, and I hope it leads to a more pleasant reading experience for the readers. Even if the novel isn't great, at least the formatting is wonderful.
3. Also from the eBook Design and Development Guide: Regular expressions are awesome. These are things you can do in a text editor like Notepad++ to do fiddly tedious little things like strip extra blank lines and spaces from a file, wrap the correct html tags around paragraphs or sentences, and cool stuff like that.
4. The CreateSpace Word templates are crazy-making, The formatted one came with weird sections and headers that didn't fit with my novel and that I couldn't figure out how to get rid of. The un-formatted one ate my dropcaps. Finally (after an equally frustrating foray into LibreOffice [see below]), I just set up my own pages using the margin guidelines on CreateSpace, and that worked fine.
5. LibreOffice has many advantages over Word, but its developers hate page numbers. Setting up different page numbers for different sections and getting the right numbers in the right place is much easier in Word. (Or maybe that's because Word's instructions are better-written.) (Note that I'm using Word 2003. Can't speak for later versions.)
6. Typing out small caps for each different version is a pain. Do it once on the source file before doing anything else.
7. Smashwords' Meatgrinder converter actually does a really nice job of converting your .doc into various ebook formats if you follow the Style Guide exactly. I'd heard lots of complaints about the Smashwords conversions, but I'm very pleased with how mine turned out.
And some things that may remain mysteries forever:
1. Why did Sigil make my epub come out with a humongozoidal cover image? Seriously. I looked in the previewers, and got a friend to look at it on her Kobo, and you could only see like the top left quarter of the image. Running the conversion through Calibre resulted in a correctly-sized cover image.
2. Why do the makers of LibreOffice hate page numbers? And who writes their instructions? Seriously, that isn't something that should be so hard.
So there's two weeks' worth of lessons that should reduce the formatting, conversion, and publishing time on my next book to two days.
What I've learned:
1. Command line programs are not my friend. This was what brought me down to crashing defeat in my attempt to completely build an e-book by hand. The very last step is to compress all the different files into a zip file, using a command line zip program because there's one tiny little line of code in its own file that has to go in first and end up at the very top of the zipped file. I followed the instructions exactly, but I just couldn't get that bugger to go in right. I'd run the program, compress my files, run it through the epub validator, and keep coming back with just that one little error. And that one error, that one little 20-byte file, made the ebook unusable. Otherwise it was perfect. *sigh* So I backed up and used the very beautifully-written html and css that I came out of the process with, and learned my next lesson:
2. CSS is my friend, and I can do it. I'd been trying to learn CSS for years and could never quite grasp it, but for some reason the way it's laid out in The eBook Design and Development Guide by Paul Salvette clicked for me. Following the instructions in the guide (and applying the principles to adjust a few things, like my smallcaps, that weren't working right) I ended up with html/CSS files that converted beautifully when I did find conversion methods that worked for me. I'm proud of the formatting in my ebooks, and I hope it leads to a more pleasant reading experience for the readers. Even if the novel isn't great, at least the formatting is wonderful.
3. Also from the eBook Design and Development Guide: Regular expressions are awesome. These are things you can do in a text editor like Notepad++ to do fiddly tedious little things like strip extra blank lines and spaces from a file, wrap the correct html tags around paragraphs or sentences, and cool stuff like that.
4. The CreateSpace Word templates are crazy-making, The formatted one came with weird sections and headers that didn't fit with my novel and that I couldn't figure out how to get rid of. The un-formatted one ate my dropcaps. Finally (after an equally frustrating foray into LibreOffice [see below]), I just set up my own pages using the margin guidelines on CreateSpace, and that worked fine.
5. LibreOffice has many advantages over Word, but its developers hate page numbers. Setting up different page numbers for different sections and getting the right numbers in the right place is much easier in Word. (Or maybe that's because Word's instructions are better-written.) (Note that I'm using Word 2003. Can't speak for later versions.)
6. Typing out small caps for each different version is a pain. Do it once on the source file before doing anything else.
7. Smashwords' Meatgrinder converter actually does a really nice job of converting your .doc into various ebook formats if you follow the Style Guide exactly. I'd heard lots of complaints about the Smashwords conversions, but I'm very pleased with how mine turned out.
And some things that may remain mysteries forever:
1. Why did Sigil make my epub come out with a humongozoidal cover image? Seriously. I looked in the previewers, and got a friend to look at it on her Kobo, and you could only see like the top left quarter of the image. Running the conversion through Calibre resulted in a correctly-sized cover image.
2. Why do the makers of LibreOffice hate page numbers? And who writes their instructions? Seriously, that isn't something that should be so hard.
So there's two weeks' worth of lessons that should reduce the formatting, conversion, and publishing time on my next book to two days.
February 15, 2013
Urdaisunia News Update
A few things to update tonight. First of all, Urdaisunia has been approved by Smashwords for distribution to the Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Sony, and Apple ebook stores, along with other distribution channels. Watch for buy links as the book goes live on those sites.
Also, you can now read Urdaisunia for free, serial-style, on the site. I'll post a new chapter 2-3 times a week, with up to three chapters available at any one time. The prologue and chapter 1 are now available here. Once I reach the end, the prologue and first chapter will go up as a permanent free sample. If you're not sure about spending money on a book by a new and unknown author, this will give you a chance to try out the book. Of course, I hope you'll enjoy what you're reading enough to buy the book rather than wait seven or eight or nine weeks to find out how it ends!
And now that the Urdaisunia publishing chores are (mostly) done, it's time to get back into the writing/revising routine. Chosen of Azara is coming under the revision knife, and I'm getting ready to start writing Book 2 of the Daughter of the Wildings series.
Also, you can now read Urdaisunia for free, serial-style, on the site. I'll post a new chapter 2-3 times a week, with up to three chapters available at any one time. The prologue and chapter 1 are now available here. Once I reach the end, the prologue and first chapter will go up as a permanent free sample. If you're not sure about spending money on a book by a new and unknown author, this will give you a chance to try out the book. Of course, I hope you'll enjoy what you're reading enough to buy the book rather than wait seven or eight or nine weeks to find out how it ends!
And now that the Urdaisunia publishing chores are (mostly) done, it's time to get back into the writing/revising routine. Chosen of Azara is coming under the revision knife, and I'm getting ready to start writing Book 2 of the Daughter of the Wildings series.
February 14, 2013
Urdaisunia Now Available at Smashwords
Urdaisunia is now live at Smashwords! You can buy it directly at the Smashwords site, and hopefully it will soon (pending review of the technical specifications) make its way through to a variety of other sales channels, including Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Sony, and Apple.
In the meantime, I've finished the paperback version and am now awaiting a proof copy. Once I get that and make sure it's all good, Urdaisunia will be available in paperback through Amazon.
In the meantime, I've finished the paperback version and am now awaiting a proof copy. Once I get that and make sure it's all good, Urdaisunia will be available in paperback through Amazon.
