Publishing and Projects
Everything
is done on COAST OF SPEARS, aside from finalizing the cover — final
print dimensions are needed to finish that up. Editing, formatting
both print and ebook, registering the ISBNs, etc, is all taken care
of. I'll be able to start uploading files pretty much whenever I feel
like it. Probably after this weekend, when I still intend to make it
to the Florida Folk Festival.
For
one day, anyway. Which day may depend on the weather and if looks bad
every day, I just might cancel it out and save the money. I do still
intend to get to Nashville in July. I should look into some other
places and people to visit as long as I'm on the road. Maybe even do
a very short 'open mike' tour.
But,
the book — MY official release date via Arachis Press is July 1
but, of course, it will be available in some places and some formats
before then. When I assigned my ISBN I put the official date down a
month earlier, June 1. It can take weeks for books to show up
everywhere, especially the print version at places like Amazon and
Barnes & Noble. Much sooner at Arachis Press (and our Lulu
store).
So,
will I start writing the sequel now? I admit that it is not all
plotted out, even in my head, though I have the basics. The whole
thing may need to ferment and bubble for a while before I do more
than jot down my ideas. And I could try shifting gears and working on
something else — it does take a little while to get one project out
of my mind and another into it.
The
sequel, by the way, is likely to be titled VALLEY OF VISIONS. I
haven't a name for its sequel yet (and there almost certainly would
be one — I'm thinking a trilogy here). We leave book one with our
protagonist pursuing his rival and hostage (hey, there has to be a
damsel in distress) into the mountains, so there should be a
homecoming to the tangled politics of the Mora nation in the final
book. And to his own tangled romance.
But
first, I must completely redesign and replace my current website, for
a variety of uninteresting reasons. One of them being the software I
have used for years, Yahoo's Site Builder. Great for people who like
to design rather than write code, but frustratingly buggy. The other
is the need to get with the times and have a mobile-friendly site.
I
will NOT do a responsive site, at least not now. I'm going for the
separate 'm' site with redirects. This lets me control the look of
both versions much better and not be stuck with a cookie cutter site.
And most responsive sites I have seen look horrible on a big screen.
So
that's the big project for a while. Then on to other stuff.