Doing a Dry Run
I am marching closer and closer to the publication of the first book of the Shores of the Dead Trilogy (Book One the Escape). I have paid the brilliant artist Mr. Mike Mumah (www.artof mikemumah.com) for the first of four covers. The three books of the trilogy and the omnibus edition will all have distinct covers done by a man that I believe is one of the most talented relatively unknown artists working today. I consider it a real coup that he instantly agreed to do the work and cut me a really amazing deal considering the quality of his work. I do not care if others like his work as much as I care that I like it.
And I love it.
OK enough of stroking the ego of a dude that will never read this anyway. On to the dry run that has, for me, cut the channel to make the publication of the trilogy as easy as possible.
Back in 2008 I wrote a short novella (about 15,000 words) called “One Way Ticket”. I shopped it around for about a year but the only responses I received were either that it wasn’t right for the publication or that it exceeded the space limits available. But I still love the story and had always been planning on including it in the first collection of my short stories despite its length. As I was reading through the process of self publishing via Amazon I decided that I needed to do it on a test piece before sending my novels through the mill.
It took me four days to do what should have taken one and that is why I did it. Now when I assemble the first book of the trilogy next month I know what I need to do and how to do it. The bonus is that “One Way Ticket” is available for purchase ($0.99 for eBook and $3.56 for paperback) on Amazon. The editing is choppy because I violated my number one rule, I edited myself. I know I should have had someone else do it but I was so anxious to try the process out and I didn’t want to compensate someone for editing it considering I don’t expect to really make any money on it.
Say sorry.
And that is where I stand at the moment. The first book is with the editor and the cover is being worked on. As of today the Kickstarter is 86% funded and there are still 28 days left. So I think we are in very good shape!
And I love it.
OK enough of stroking the ego of a dude that will never read this anyway. On to the dry run that has, for me, cut the channel to make the publication of the trilogy as easy as possible.
Back in 2008 I wrote a short novella (about 15,000 words) called “One Way Ticket”. I shopped it around for about a year but the only responses I received were either that it wasn’t right for the publication or that it exceeded the space limits available. But I still love the story and had always been planning on including it in the first collection of my short stories despite its length. As I was reading through the process of self publishing via Amazon I decided that I needed to do it on a test piece before sending my novels through the mill.
It took me four days to do what should have taken one and that is why I did it. Now when I assemble the first book of the trilogy next month I know what I need to do and how to do it. The bonus is that “One Way Ticket” is available for purchase ($0.99 for eBook and $3.56 for paperback) on Amazon. The editing is choppy because I violated my number one rule, I edited myself. I know I should have had someone else do it but I was so anxious to try the process out and I didn’t want to compensate someone for editing it considering I don’t expect to really make any money on it.
Say sorry.
And that is where I stand at the moment. The first book is with the editor and the cover is being worked on. As of today the Kickstarter is 86% funded and there are still 28 days left. So I think we are in very good shape!
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