Slow Process of Beta-Reading Atlantia

Beta reading of Atlantia, the upcoming short-story collection featuring three stories set in the World of Water and Sky, is underway. This is the opportunity to catch final errors before the book is officially released. Often times there are things like missing or repeated words, typos, or formatting issues that come to be discovered.

In the case of the first story in Atlantia, one issue that an editor identified is the presence of romantic chemistry between two characters not originally written to have a romantic arc. This has led to the unique last-minute addition of a new originally-unplanned romantic arc added to the first story.

Just some of the fun things that happen in beta-reading! (Though a change this significant is unusual)

However, despite this fun news, that’s not to say that progress is going quickly. With so much going on in July, the two individuals editing the book, myself included, have not had as much time as we hoped to devote to this. But that is not to say progress is not being made. All in all, I would anticipate the book being finalized by the end of the month.

While I hadn’t anticipated Atlantia to be a huge seller while writing it, a recent surge in book sales in the Color of Water and Sky series leads me to be a bit more optimistic. In the past several days, I have seen three instances of customers buying the entire series at once. This is historically not something that I see at all. Typically people buy books one at a time. Therefore to see so much activity of people buying the entire series in one purchase leads me to be a bit more optimistic about the series’ future. Obviously I won’t know any of that until the book is released.

Rest assured, although slow, progress is certainly being made on Atlantia and hopefully this momentum of successful sales will continue into its release.