Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Finally a launch date for the book...sort of



You know that saying, “Make hay while the sun shines?”  Well, out here in Vancouver, we do pretty much everything while the sun shines: riding bikes, swimming, hiking, shopping farmers markets, and on and on. The only trouble is that the sun has been shining for almost two months, and while that has meant a fabulous summer, it’s also meant not enough time for writing.

But today, it’s raining. I must be a true Vancouverite now, since I found myself staying outside long enough to get soaked, and then feeling completely energized. I’m set for a full day of editing and rewriting, and I’m going to come out and commit to an October publication date for my new book. I realize that October is not a date, but it’s a lot closer than just saying soon. I have my fingers crossed for October 1st. 

The book has a new title now: How The Cookie Crumbles. Still food-oriented, of course, and I have to admit that writing this book often makes me quite hungry since there are tons of eating scenes. I have a new cover too, and that involved trying to get exactly the cookie I wanted from the puzzled girl at the bakery: “No, not that one, can you give me one with more blue Smarties?” My cookie model was quite cooperative, but unfortunately by the time the photo shoot was done, it was too stale to eat.

I have the first half of the book completed written, edited, proofed and beta-read. So, that leaves the second half, which is all written, one-third edited and completely unproofed and unbeta-read. But I’m committing to a blog hop on September 30th, with the hope that a deadline will get my butt in gear. I think you’ll find the hop quite interesting, since it’s all writers who write about hot hockey players. More details to come when I find out what exactly a blog hop is.

What I loved about online serial writing was the fixed deadlines, churning out a chapter nightly or semi-nightly. I proofed but I never worried about errors. But publishing is different, and I’ve been a little angsty around the perfection of the finished product. No more though, I want to get this book out there…so I can begin on the next ones.



8 comments:

  1. Yay! I like the new title. Just like the donut, it makes me hungry looking at it! I'm so glad you are working on your book again. I can't wait to see the changes you made. From your other post, it sounds like you have lots of great ideas for future stories. I look forward to reading those also.

    I must admit that I was very excited to read that you may have a way to publish IOSWHP. I know it's long and will take a lot of work to publish, but it's such a great story. It would be a shame not to share it with the world-- and I'd like to read it again! It's one of my favorites.

    Hopefully you'll have a few more sunny days this summer! I'm curious to see what a blog hop is. I've never heard of that before. Anyway, I look forward to October and reading "How the Cookie Crumbles". Good luck!!

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    1. So great to hear from you again, I missed your cheery comments. Be sure to send me an email at melting21 (at) gmail (dot) com and I will send you an e-book when it launches.

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  2. Darn sunny days! But I'm really excited to see your updates and what you have planned through the rest of the year. The blog hop should be fun!

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    1. Yeah, I know, it's probably a crime to complain about too much sunshine in Vancouver. The weather police will be coming for me. But I'm looking forward to getting this book out there! See you at the hop!

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  3. Hi it's AB. I lost track of you for a bit because I used to follow your blogs through google reader and then that died and I had thought I transferred everything over to feedly but apparently that was a failure and yeah anyway I just found you again. I'm quite happy to see the news of your next book coming out!

    I really admire you for working so hard on all this editing and revising and writing. I will admit that I hope that you mostly kept my favorite part of ELD intact, the time when Drew and Frankie were together in London.

    I am curious about this whole self publishing process that you are going through. Do you mind answering some questions about it? I could email some to you. I think it would make for an interesting blog post to share more about the process, if you are at all interested in writing about that.

    As far as IOSWHP, I was on Jon's side. I think I could have handled him losing easier if he hadn't seemed to undergo a personality transplant at the end and become a bad guy. I think that bothered me more than him not winning, because in my opinion it didn't fit with the entire story and Kelly could have chosen Phil over him even if he wasn't the villain. But maybe I am just a bitter unsatisfied Toews fan and I didn't properly understand how he completely changed after becoming an NHL star. I can understand becoming emotionally constipated but he seemed kinda abusive at the end as far as I can recall, I haven't read it in some time. Maybe I'm not remembering it right though. Anyway just my 2 cents, ignore it if it sounds wacko.

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    1. Yes, I actually thought about your comments as I rewrote ELD, and tried to bring in more of the excitement of their budding relationship into Part Two. I don't know about your take on IOSWHP though, I don't think I've ever written an abusive character in my life. One funny thing is that I read the whole story about a year after I'd written it, and I could see why Team Jelly got so upset, because there certainly seemed to be indications that they would reunite.

      Feel free to email me your questions. I think a blog post on self-publishing is a good idea.

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    2. Well perhaps abusive is stretching it. I just recall thinking Jon became a huge jerk at the end and wasn't Kelly intimidated or afraid of him some, his temper? Maybe I remember it totally wrong though. Just the vague impression I am left with, but maybe it's not worth much. I do appreciate you listening to our opinions on yours stories and taking that into consideration while rewriting them.

      I'll put some questions together for you about the self-publishing process, thanks for being willing to answer.

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    3. Hmm, still doesn't seem accurate. Perhaps you have it confused with some other 267 chapter epic serial story about hockey players? :)
      I await your email.

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