Where oh where has my attention span gone?
So a lot has happened in the last couple of weeks. The printed copy of Ball in Hand came in the mail and it’s beautiful. I was a little disappointed to see just how big the 6″x 9″ copy is. I really wanted it to look like all of the romance novels I paged through over the years but it’s cheaper in 6″x 9″ and the bigger print is helpful. I love the cover even more in person. I wanted to sit down and lovingly stroke every page but after six or more edits ( ? I lost count) frankly I’m sick of the whole book and if I never read it again that will be fine. That being said you should read it!
The most amazing thing happened after I posted the live book on my facebook page. Someone bought it, and liked it, and wrote a review! It was a friend of mine from high school so it’s not a completely unbiased review but we haven’t talked in ten years so it felt pretty amazing! I can’t wait to send that reviewer a hard copy as a thank you.
I put two months into writing the thing. Then I put five months into publishing the thing. And now every thing I read seems to be saying I will be spending the rest of my life selling the thing. Selling is just not my forte. So I have enlisted the help of a friend who says marketing is her hobby. I think she’s crazy but that is the stuff of another post. For now I’m just grateful that she’s willing to jump on board and help me out with the mountain of work that is just starting.
Book two: Honeymoons are Overrated is in the editing phase. It’s cover reveal is tentatively scheduled for October 15th. If all goes well HaO will be available on November 17th. The first few chapters are available now in the back of Ball in Hand which is for sale on Kindle but also free to download on Story Cartel for the next twelve days! Honeymoons are Overrated centers around the relationship between Chad and Lisa and it’s a little hotter than Ball in Hand. Don’t start salivating on me, it’s no Fifty Shades of Grey. Sorry.
Book three using the working title Diner Undercover is in the rough rough rough almost draft phase. I have 12,000 words of hopefully 80,000. It’s a little faster moving and a little deeper subject matter. But if you liked reading about Sam and Luke, I’m sure you will love Lisa and Chad, and you’ll be so ready to read about the final couple of the Finding Home trilogy.
Needless to say between writing Diner Undercover, editing Honeymoons are Overrated, and promoting Ball in Hand my thoughts are pretty fragmented which is why this blog post is sadly overdue. I almost forgot the reading. Every time I get frustrated I just throw all the writing/publishing stuff down and read something. I have nearly finished Reading Lolita in Tehran which is fantastic and I also read Tipping the Velvet which was an education in and of itself. I also have all these pesky new story ideas rattling around in my head competing for their turn to be put on paper.
My question of the week for other writers out there do you force yourself to finish one project at a time or do you work on multiple rough drafts simultaneously? I’m scared that I start writing everything I want to start I will never get my attention span back in line.
