Various Projects Progressing

I have a vampire novel in the final proof stage, and two paranormal investigator novels in a series that I've been working on. They were written in 2011 and 2013, book two before book one in the series, so I need to make sure they flow smoothly from one to two. Have the first book in print proof form-arrived yesterday. Interestingly enough, and this is the importance of obtaining a proof copy you can ruffle the pages of, I found I have two chapter 2s! And different chapter header fonts. Back to the computer file to clean that up. Meanwhile, just finished all the initial edits to the computer manuscript version of book two. Now comes the fun part of designing the cover for the book.

I'm also creating a very casual, loosely constructed writer's group. I don't have the time to be bogged down by it, so I'm designing it to be flexible, blog and maybe social media based with occasional meetings that if you make it to them wonderful, but if you don't you can catch up on the blog and maybe show up next time.

Good Mom that I am, I sold copies of Kelly's first novel to two coworkers this week. She was thrilled. She still has some available at Blue Umbrella Books and on Amazon the book, Parapsychology by Kelly Buffum, can be ordered.

I've also been busy beta reading for several author acquaintances. I like to see what they're working on and provide them feedback. Had positive feedback on my vampire novel from a coworker who took it home to read.

Need to get that vampire novel back into manuscript form to send it to a publisher who only deals with serious vampire fiction, not Buffy the Vampire Slayer stuff.