I am occasionally guilty of over-planning and under-executing. That said, I’m glad to have treated the business of self-publishing seriously. As we like to say these days, there are a lot of moving parts.
A small corner of the publishing plan
Back during my initial over-planning (February), I laid out the many steps of the process I saw ahead, and I put in plenty of slack time. I’ve now consumed most of that precious time. I just uploaded the Fatal Score e-book, as painstakingly modified. It’s the third such upload. I also put up the interior material for the paperback book to two sources.
Next week, the e-book goes live, though the ‘official’ launch is November 18th. I’ll be sending requests for advance copy readers during the next week.
I have thought of myself as a writer for most of my adult life. In 2011, I became a fiction writer full time. I studied creative writing as an English major in college. Then came family and career. I worked in finance and biotech and did a wonderful stint in Vienna. Now, I have the opportunity to use those experiences as the substrate for my stories. My first novel takes on the world of Big Data and the very timely issue of cyber war. The second uses the manipulation of financial derivatives as impetus for attempted murder during a trip from Vienna to Budapest on the Danube.
I have taken writing instruction at the Cape Cod Writers Conference and from The Loft in Minneapolis. I am finding writers’ groups to be very helpful as concept editors, as well as practical advice from the published authors. I am in three such groups. I have taken writing instruction at the Cape Cod Writers Conference and from The Loft in Minneapolis.
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2 thoughts on “Slack Time”
John, A couple of thoughts.
When we talked last week, I forgot something. Doesn’t Amazon still send you a free proof copy (paperback) so you can see what it looks like before it goes live?
Also, when I put mine up on Amazon, I had some control over when it went live and how long it stayed live. Isn’t that possible anymore?
Amazon gives an electronic proof, and you can buy a physical one at cost. I probably shouldn’t have uploaded by e-book until I was within a few weeks of publishing.
John, A couple of thoughts.
When we talked last week, I forgot something. Doesn’t Amazon still send you a free proof copy (paperback) so you can see what it looks like before it goes live?
Also, when I put mine up on Amazon, I had some control over when it went live and how long it stayed live. Isn’t that possible anymore?
Amazon gives an electronic proof, and you can buy a physical one at cost. I probably shouldn’t have uploaded by e-book until I was within a few weeks of publishing.