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Kicking off 2017 with a bang...
Jan. 2nd, 2017 06:47 pmNew Year's was relatively low key. Jana stayed home to recover from a routine medical procedure while I went out with friends to hear Lizz Winstead at the Cedar Cultural Center. Lizz was pretty entertaining, which was a nice balance to the rest of the day which otherwise was not great. Yesterday, we had friends over and a couple of hours of pleasant chatting and so forth.
Today was an all Queen of Swords Press, all the time day. While migraine-wrangling.
So what did I achieve?
Well, I GOT A NEW BOOK OUT! I'm a tad excited about this because it has taken forever, at least by my standards. I've been working on the Press for nearly three years now - classes, legal and financial planning and set up, edits, more planning, more classes, cover art, edits, more edits, learning new software, meetings, more meetings, more stuff - so to finally unleash something upon the unsuspecting populace is glorious.
What's actually available right now:
Today was an all Queen of Swords Press, all the time day. While migraine-wrangling.
So what did I achieve?
Well, I GOT A NEW BOOK OUT! I'm a tad excited about this because it has taken forever, at least by my standards. I've been working on the Press for nearly three years now - classes, legal and financial planning and set up, edits, more planning, more classes, cover art, edits, more edits, learning new software, meetings, more meetings, more stuff - so to finally unleash something upon the unsuspecting populace is glorious.
What's actually available right now:
- Review copies in various ebook formats. If you review ebooks and would like one, let me know.
- Amazon, bless its heart, decided to release the book early, so it's for sale now. I probably unchecked the preorder box on setup and didn't notice, so it won't go up on other sites and in other formats until later on in the week (official release is supposed to be 1/6/17). This is just as well because I ran into a snafu with Smashwords so I'd like to get that resolved before stuff appears.
- Queen of Swords Press now exists on Twitter (@QoSPress), Facebook (www.facebook.com/queenofswordspress/) and has a mailing list signup on the website (www.queenofswordspress.com). Website is still getting updated and cleaned up so maybe give it a day or two for my web person to finish before signing up.
- More formats and more availability (see above). I'll also look into an account on Weightless Books and see when they start adding new publishers again.
- Finalized website with buy links, etc. See above.
- Possibly sales direct off my website, but I need to doublecheck some things on that first.
- Print edition of Out of This World, if all goes well. But likely another couple of ebooks first (two by Emily L. Byrne forthcoming) and plan a print edition for my first convention of next year, which will likely be WisCon in May.
- More books! So much stuff in various stages of completion! I want to write all the things! And never sleep again! Oh wait, that won't work...
