Quick Notes: the Aftermath
1. So I sold more copies on April 2nd than I did on release day. Were you fans broke, waiting for the kids to get lost, or did reading a KH book on Easter weekend just seem too sacrilegious for you? Answers, please!
2. General reaction to FM6.5 is about where I thought it would be. Few people don't like Tyson's whinging (you think it's bad reading it, you should try writing it! So polite! So many qualifers! ACK!), most are digging Eva, and the majority are happy enough that it was at worst worth the $2.99. Not the best KH book ever, but...a nice taste to hold you off to the FM7 feast, I hope. And come on, that ending kicked your ass!
3. Just a reminder: FM6 was insane, topping it will likely take a miracle. I'm going to try with FM7 but...well, hold on to your butts.
4. Speaking of FM7, I started working on it finally, yay! Working on the school story, 5k of work in the bag. We skipped a whole year from Pent to just a couple days before the start of the last year, so there's some catch up in there on what probably would have been some of the most boring school stories if I'd actually written them. Namely the relationship with Eva (pretty sure we've covered this just a little bit) and KH stealing and barting for the materials to make his first artifact. Which if you are a good fan you should know is...?
5. Also working on an edit of Glassbreaker Goes Home. When I started these I much more gravitated to it over Assault, so the 25k I had was all written before I figured everything out with FM6.5. For one, the original version of FM6.5 had no Isabel in it. Crazy thought reading it now, right? That was all added in the second rewrite. Before that it was meant to be Teresa Garcia who stuck around out of vengeance and well... Let that be a lesson to aspiring writers: anything can and will change from draft to draft. So don't be afraid if the first one sucks, it's kind of supposed to!
So, yeah, having to solidify some of the thoughts on the assault in FM6.75 now, and other stuff...like I expect there might be a KH rant about babies coming up...
6. I like FM6.75 so much better than 6.5...oh, I'm horrible father playing favorites, yes I am. It's all character stuff! So good! No yucky action scenes! Just KH and Val and Susan and...there's like a 40 page conversation between Vicky and Moira Welf and I love it so much! Probably not a surprise since one of my favorite scenes I've ever written is the Ceinwyn vs KH argument at the end of FM4.
7. Oh, more FM7 news I forgot about! I took the time to come up with the entire list for all of Ultra Class 2015 this go around. Bit of a spoiler, but Student-Advisor Price has lots of work to do. 30 new characters! Well, 28, you should know two of them already if you read FM5.5. I'll try to post the list soonish, although you still have months of waiting, you poor babies...
8. You will surely recognize some of the last names...
9. This month is looking great. Avengers! God of War! Hearthstone expansion! Tons of writing from RR? I hope so!
10. Generally my goal at this point in a release is to disappear, even lock the WiFi in a drawer if I have to. Thanks to everyone who writes reviews, but man those things tear me up, even the good ones. Never have a job that can be rated by the general public, so stressful!
11. So...writing...I'm gonna get back at it!
2. General reaction to FM6.5 is about where I thought it would be. Few people don't like Tyson's whinging (you think it's bad reading it, you should try writing it! So polite! So many qualifers! ACK!), most are digging Eva, and the majority are happy enough that it was at worst worth the $2.99. Not the best KH book ever, but...a nice taste to hold you off to the FM7 feast, I hope. And come on, that ending kicked your ass!
3. Just a reminder: FM6 was insane, topping it will likely take a miracle. I'm going to try with FM7 but...well, hold on to your butts.
4. Speaking of FM7, I started working on it finally, yay! Working on the school story, 5k of work in the bag. We skipped a whole year from Pent to just a couple days before the start of the last year, so there's some catch up in there on what probably would have been some of the most boring school stories if I'd actually written them. Namely the relationship with Eva (pretty sure we've covered this just a little bit) and KH stealing and barting for the materials to make his first artifact. Which if you are a good fan you should know is...?
5. Also working on an edit of Glassbreaker Goes Home. When I started these I much more gravitated to it over Assault, so the 25k I had was all written before I figured everything out with FM6.5. For one, the original version of FM6.5 had no Isabel in it. Crazy thought reading it now, right? That was all added in the second rewrite. Before that it was meant to be Teresa Garcia who stuck around out of vengeance and well... Let that be a lesson to aspiring writers: anything can and will change from draft to draft. So don't be afraid if the first one sucks, it's kind of supposed to!
So, yeah, having to solidify some of the thoughts on the assault in FM6.75 now, and other stuff...like I expect there might be a KH rant about babies coming up...
6. I like FM6.75 so much better than 6.5...oh, I'm horrible father playing favorites, yes I am. It's all character stuff! So good! No yucky action scenes! Just KH and Val and Susan and...there's like a 40 page conversation between Vicky and Moira Welf and I love it so much! Probably not a surprise since one of my favorite scenes I've ever written is the Ceinwyn vs KH argument at the end of FM4.
7. Oh, more FM7 news I forgot about! I took the time to come up with the entire list for all of Ultra Class 2015 this go around. Bit of a spoiler, but Student-Advisor Price has lots of work to do. 30 new characters! Well, 28, you should know two of them already if you read FM5.5. I'll try to post the list soonish, although you still have months of waiting, you poor babies...
8. You will surely recognize some of the last names...
9. This month is looking great. Avengers! God of War! Hearthstone expansion! Tons of writing from RR? I hope so!
10. Generally my goal at this point in a release is to disappear, even lock the WiFi in a drawer if I have to. Thanks to everyone who writes reviews, but man those things tear me up, even the good ones. Never have a job that can be rated by the general public, so stressful!
11. So...writing...I'm gonna get back at it!
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