Reason For Vengeance

Very hectic week this week.  In the process of all my formatting nightmare's I actuallly managed to save over my master file of book two and then to top it off I did the back up as well.  Very, very luckly I had made a back, back up for all my Dark Vengeance files before I started the Publication process.  Fortunately I hadn't written any more on book two so it was a 100% up to date back up.  Whew.

Anyway after all that I had decided to take today off.  I spent this afternoon traveling to visit my parents anyway so I thought it would be nice to have the morning to re-charge my batteries.  I still managed to do about three hours work today.  Oh well, I enjoy it.

Now off to the pub for a few beers.

Reason For Vengeance

Well all five sites have now been uploaded to.  I'm waiting for Nook, Kobo and Create Space to go live but I have already ordered myself a copy of the book on Kindle.  Damn it looks good!  Well worth the pain of the last couple of days.

Now I am going to drink some whisky and watch Kill Bill Vol 2.

Reason For Vengeance

Well I was up until late last night fixing those errors I mentioned and sorting the Smashwords file.  Both are now up I have sold six books!  Yay!

Next jobs are Nook, Kobo, Huffier and Create Space.  The last is going to the real tough one!

Reason For Vengeance

Well the good news is that the book is up on Amazon.  Yay!

The bad news is it isn't quite right.  Nothing major but there are a couple of errors I let slip through as I was messing about with the formatting.

Nothing near as bad as Smashwords though.  They advise taking the manuscript back to nothing and then input all the formats from scratch.  I thought "I don't use all these fancy features.  It'll be fine!"  It wasn't and guess what I'm doing tomorrow?  To be fair I have learnt a lot today so it hopefully won't take long.  I can then use that as a base to upload to all the other formats.

Writing is easy.  Publishing is hard!

Reason For Vengeance

Phew, I am knackered

I expected today to be a bit easier given all the work I felt I had managed to do over the last couple of days.  I owke up this morning with the plan to go for a run as I thought the pressure was off.  I decided in the end to get straight to work instead.  More as an excuse not to run than an actual need to get on.  I am really glad I started as soon as possible this morning.

I have been working flat out and put in ten hours solid work today.  Along with a double edit of the new material I have spent most of the day learning what I need to set up the book for print on demand.  I'm glad I did as it opened me up to some stuff I hadn't thought about like Fonts and Justifying the text (making sure it lines all lines up both sides).  Lastly I sorted the cover out for the print on demand and I'm pleased with the result.

One of my beta readers has come back with his thoughts on the new material so I'll do that after I've had some dinner.

Reason For Vengeance

A very productive day today.

Finished the Prologue re-write.
All the amendments from both beta readers complete.
Edited the new chapters and prologue, then sent to beta readers.
Sorted the About the Author page.
Created a facebook account for my author personna.
Wrote a publishing plan to make sure I don't miss anything.

All in all I did a total of nine and a half hours work today.  Now I am very hungry and it is time for tea.  I may do more afterward but I'm not sure what is next.

Publication day is fast approaching.

Reason For Vengeance

I was out drinking with my two beta readers last night.  They turned up with edited copies of the manuscript and some really good suggestions.

The suggestions meant I needed to re-write the bit of the prologue I didn't re-write last time and three brand new chapters.  The new chapters were short and I managed to get those done today.  I then started on the re-write and managed to complete 1,300 words before running out of steam.

All in all a pretty good days work.  Particularly for a Sunday.

Now I've got a very full week to get though so I can get it up on Amazon by close of play Friday.

Early night tonight I think.  Start fresh in the morning.