Writerly Ways

[cornerofmadness]

I have no coherent thoughts for this week and it's hard to top last week's announcement so just let me ramble a bit then get back to the clean up. Anyone got a match?

I'm excitedly waiting both the cover art specs and the edits for my novel. Okay I'm not THAT excited about the edits but I know it's 100% necessary and I'll be better for it. Picking out your cover art is an important and sort of hard thing to do based on my experience with the novella The Darkest Midnight in December. So many choices. Will the artist get it right? (I was pretty darned happy last time) How will suggestions for changes be taken? and I DO know art is important. I got into an argument with a friend back in the 90's over this. S/he wanted purposely bad art. I suppose that would draw the eye but for the wrong reasons. I just saw a cover last night that left me going huh? in terms of the book content. Yeah, important, hard and exciting.

I'm not sure there's that much new here but I just liked the title (you knew I would) 4 things Star Trek can teach us

And this IS helpful for those of us peddling stories. marketing maze

July's camp nano - Not off to a great start.

4219 / 15000
(28.13%)

yearly word count -

81692 / 125000
(65.35%)

Comments

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

thank you. the icon on my writing journal jana_denardo is a parsed down version of the novella art. I'd be happy with that same artist. I haven't gotten the art spec sheets yet (last time they waited a tad long imo) probably won't until I get at least one or two rounds of edits done.

I can self edit some but no, I'm not that good at it. I hate doing it no matter the importance

[ishte.livejournal.com]

These were both interesting and useful articles. I'll have to keep some of that info in mind. I think I'm going to share them on FB too.

btw, do you have any idea of a release date? Will it be released both digital and physical or just one or the other?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

they were interesting.

I'm guessing between Oct-Dec. I haven't gotten a first edit yet or the cover specs so it'll be awhile yet.

both ebook and paper as far as I know. Possibly even audio if it sells well