The Art and Science of Ranting

It happens that today is kinda sleepy, wet, and all around boring... just like every other day this week, ironically. I have a lot of thoughts but nowhere to put them, and YOU, my faithful (ish) sudience, are the perfect people to dump them out upon.

Smashwords. One word: help! Being a minor and therefore not-in-control-of-every-aspect-of-my-life is not so fun. Not to demean adults are glorify myself, you realize- I know I'm not ready to go live on my own- but it's irritating to not have such convienient things as payment information, which is essential to do the job right on Smashwords. For those of you who don't know Smashwords sells e-books. Hopefully within a few days or a week they'll be selling MY e-books.

Hopefully.

Writing. All this rushing rushing rushing to prepare Mordred and Brother Thief for various distribution channels (Kindle, Smashwords, oh-my-gosh-why-isn't-this-cover-looking-right!) has left my writing high and dry since... oh, June, perhaps? Sure, I've written several thousand words of extra chapters to round out my already-completed book, Brother Thief. But that's not the same as actually working on an unfinished story. I'm getting rusty, and I know it. When I finally pick up Song of the Aura book 4 again, or the Mordred sequel, I'm gonna pay for neglecting my craft... sigh.... That leads into my next rant:

Projects. I've halted work on the Mordred sequel temporarily. Why? Aside from sheer laziness, not much else... except that there's a possibility of taking Mordred (and therefore any sequels) to a small press I know of. It's not negotiations. It's not even querying. It's just talking, really, but on the slight chance it goes somewhere I'll have wasted time on the sequel when I could be working on...

...Song of the Aura, book 4! Wait, you say, isn't book 1 the only one that's out? Yes, Brother Thief is the only one available right now. But books 2 and 3 (can't tell you their names just yet, though I have named them) are already finished (I finished them back in June, see: it all ties together ;-), and in the throes of editing/preparing/formatting.

Originally I was going to release each SotA book 2 months apart: book1 in September, book 2 in November, book 3 in January... But now I figure, what the heck, they're so short, people won't wanna wait even that long. Why not just release 'em as soon as they're ready? DUH. The only downside is now there will be a big gap of a few months between book 3's release and book 4's release, since book 4 isn't written yet.

Books. I'm reading The Wheel of the Time series, book 2: The Great Hunt. Book 1 was good, but this one is way better (neither is flawless, and some of the characters make me wanna SCREAM, but still it's a great fantasy series). Also I'm scraping together funds to buy Theft of Swords in November, Son of Neptune in October, Inheritance in November, and John Locke's How I Sold 1 Million eBooks in 5 Months as soon as I can. Pant. Pant. Pant.

Wow, this dumping thoughts on blog readers is feeling very thereapuetic. I should do it more often.