Pulling Together the Next Release

 
My next release will be a novella composed of four related horror stories. I'm calling the novella Demon Candy . Two of the stories have been posted here on Guns & Magic ("Summer Breeze" and "Sweet Tooth"). Those will be compiled with two other stories that have been mentioned in the weekly "Writing Progress Reports" but never posted ("Inferno" and "Afterimage").
 
I finished line editing "Afterimage" this afternoon (using Serenity's Editor). I'll need to line edit "Inferno" next. Then I'll pick up the older stories and get them edited and polished, as well.
 
I considered releasing these stories as standalone short story ebooks, but decided the stories didn't make much sense by themselves. The stories are all interrelated and build off the other stories. So a small collection it is. One of the stories is 18K words, so it's almost a novella by itself. The total for all four stories is about 30,000 words.
 
My "release checklist" is still evolving. Right now it looks like this:

Write story.
Leave story alone for a while.
Read and edit story.
Send story to first readers.
Compile feedback about story from first readers.
Read and edit story.
Line edit story with Serenity's Editor.
Read (and maybe edit) story.
Create cover art for story.
Format story for ebook and/or print-on-demand.
Read (and maybe edit) formatted versions of story.
Upload story to ebook sites and/or print-on-demand.

 
Seems like a long, tedious process all listed out like that.
 
It's more fun than it looks.
 
Anyway, coming soon: Demon Candy .
 
And then I have another novella lined up, a speculative fiction/contemporary fantasy story.
 
I'm Planning Big for the New Year.
 
-David