Catégorie : Indie publishing

Revising a Novel Before Christmas

Deadline.

For a writer, it sounds either exciting or dreadful, doesn’t it?

This year, I took the leap and hired a very good, trustworthy, no bullshit and hidden-fees freelance editor and a proofreader. As for the grammar corrections, oh well, it falls on me.

This writing adventure will more than probably end in a self-publishing one, so I really need to invest a bit in order to present to readers the best version of the YA paranormal writing project, a novel I’ve been working on for a little more than a year.

A novel with a title (yeah!) that I’m not sure about (dang!).

Said deadline is: January 4th, 2021. That’s tomorrow, or close enough !

The only way I will be able to finish the revision and the corrections in time is if I make a plan and stick to it.

And I need a plan about the day job… and the to-do lists… and the Holidays prep…

Continuer la lecture de « Revising a Novel Before Christmas »

Summer Writing Goals

Summer is HERE !

Or do I mean heatwave after heatwave (many thanks to the brain behind air conditioning)?

Anyhoudelidou…

Fellow writers, here’s the June 2020 writing news: I finished the first draft of a novel. I wrote a book! High five to me!

It’s very exciting and I’m proud to have persevered, but there’s work left to do, in order to have a polished, presentable, sale-able novel by the end of July, at the very latest.

I also want to start rough drafting another MG novel, a fantasy one (no surprise here, Fantasy is my favorite genre and the one have been writing in for… ever!). I want it to be a totally fun medieval fantasy novel, with some magic and romance and mystery. Ha, I can’t wait !!

However, fellow writers…

Continuer la lecture de « Summer Writing Goals »

Diary of a Writing Project. Day 155: One Saturday​ morning thoughts about self-publishing

Must admit, so far, marketing and publishing the book stresses me way, way more than writing the actual novel.
Shouldn’t it be the other way around?

Saturday early morning « mummy » wake up call’s are the best.

Really, really.

For on Saturday, it’s off with stay-at-home / work-from-home mom things to do. Hubby-to-be is taking on the said things, so I can do writing-related business.

A.K.A this morning, research and marketing in order to succeed, even so slightly, at self-publishing a romantic comedy for adult readers.

Continuer la lecture de « Diary of a Writing Project. Day 155: One Saturday​ morning thoughts about self-publishing »