Another review for Saving Gabriel this month, and a writing report
Rebbie Reviews posted another positive review for Saving Gabriel, so this month has been full of good news. Lots of good reviews came in, and this has been a great month for sales. I even got a nice email from a reader, and these days, email is just that place where people ask me to donate to their cause or buy their book. Seriously, it’s rare that anyone emails me unless they want money, so an email from a fan is like spotting a unicorn while walking my dog during a blue moon.
If y’all ever wondered if there was a positive side effect to good news, the biggest benefit it has is keeping my motivation to write high. I’ve completed 10,633 word today for In the Mouth of the Wolf, and even if I should slow down for some reason, I’m going to finish the novel this month. I only need to write the fourth and final volume to complete Alice’s series, and because it’s been coming together so fast, I’ve already begun working on the covers and logos. I’m seriously considering releasing book one and the omnibus edition in the same month and dropping the next three books in the following months afterward. The omnibus will give a discount to readers willing to buy all four volumes at the same time, while the books coming out monthly are for the people who want to wait and see if they like the series.
Another advantage to writing the books so closely together is, it’s easier for me to recall what needs fixing in the previous books before they go out. I’ve been so devoted to Alice that I left out some bit characters and will have to go back and add scenes for them. But most of what’s left is minor fixes and adding physical descriptions for characters and locations, and adding actions to conversations to avoid “flapping head syndrome.”
I’m pretty sure the muse will want me to do the fourth book before I can get back to writing the last book of the Zombie Era series, and from there, I have to write book two in the Sin City trilogy, book three in the Sandy Morrison series, book four in the Tobe White series and the final book in the untitled series for Vicky the vampire and Amber McKenzie. It’s going to keep me pretty busy though the rest of this year, but I don’t see that as a bad thing. I won’t be running out of ideas to work on, and hopefully having out new books on a regular schedule will bring in some new readers for all these series. Or, that’s the working plan. Gotta keep stretching that long tail out.
I’m still reading other peoples’ stuff, albeit at a slower pace. But then it’s hard to find free time to read when I’m consistently hitting 8-10K a day. Any day now, I expect someone to notice and mail me my prolific author badge. That’s a real thing, right? It’s not? Well I can imagine it will happen. I’m good at using my imagination.
