Goofing off? Me? Okay, maybe a little. I’m doing that thing where you feel intimidated by how much you don’t know about something so you ignore it completely, assuming that you will magically figure everything out while not looking into it at all. That works, right?
Mostly though I just needed to take a couple of weeks off to do nothing after pushing to finish the heist novel. Time off is good for the soul and the creative process.
So how did I do on the February goals?
Get the untitled heist novel out to the WF critique group. Probably should put some kind of title on it first.(It did go out with a title, but the title was so forgettable that I’ve forgotten it already. It definitely needs a better title.)Work on changes to SHIFT HAPPENS.(I got a tiny bit done.)Study book covers, especially urban fantasy book covers, and get an idea of what I’m looking for and how much I’m willing to shell out to get it. (Budgets are hard when you are clueless.)(Looked at covers enough that all of them in the genre started to look exactly the same — woman in the center holding knife/gun +/- magical creatures. So I guess this it the thing to do.)Continue studying how to market a book.(Ongoing.)
So on paper it looks like I did something, so I’ll give myself a solid B.
March is going to be more of the same, except I’m really going to get my act together this time for real.
- Get the first pass of major edits to SHIFT HAPPENS done. There are a couple of relationships to modify and some world building to get done.
- Start working out the book cover I want.
- Self-publishing stuff — get a tax ID, maybe buy a block of ISBNs, and make a list of everything that I need to do.
- Get the next chapter of IMPULSE out to YWC.
