Writing

Writer’s Marketing Workshop Aftermath

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It’s late, or early. I’m in bed after the last day of the workshop. I can only say, at this point, that I think attending a workshop like this provided more challenges to me and my writing than any of the alternatives I’ve tried.

I committed story six times this week. Freaking incredible. I have proposals for six new novels sitting in my bag, and I can’t wait to start writing them. I know how to pitch them. I know how to blurb them. Hell, I have incredible blurbs and tag lines for all of them.

Oh, and the other writers that participated? One and all, they wrote some incredible proposals for books that I can’t wait to read. Fifty four new novel proposals in total. Just an amazing amount creativity and energy permeated this place.

I may write more about it in the future, but as of right now, I feel blessed to have participated.

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Shattered Progress

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If you follow the progress meters to the right of this post at all, you’ll see that I’m making progress on the final edit of Shattered. I’m trying to get two chapters done each day.

It’s harder than I imagined. I had several readers read it, and I compiled their comments into a single Word doc, and I’m now going through it, line by line, and fixing whatever they complained about. Occasionally, I see something that everyone missed, and I fix that, too. It’s tedious work for me, but I couldn’t imagine putting Shattered out without having put in this effort.

After this “Final” edit, I’ll export it to ePub and read through it again, more than likely finding additional problems I need to fix. In this, publishing a book seems to be like publishing software. There’s always one more problem that you missed.

I also have seen the initial sketch for the cover art, and I’m pretty much thrilled with it. There were a few minor changes, but I pretty much feel the initial sketch was amazing. I can’t wait to show it to you.

If everything goes well, the eBook versions of Shattered should be out mid-April. The paper version may take a little longer, but I hope it will be available by the end of April. I’ve heard of teething problems from others with their first trip through CreateSpace, so any time estimate there is likely off.

I’m really excited to be able to see the finish line. Of course, once I cross, I have to do it all over again with Questioner’s Shadow, and with the second book of A Wizard’s Work, which I’ll start writing as soon as I’m done with QS.

Software, StoryBox

A Shameless Appeal For Reviews

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If you’ve used StoryBox at all, whether you own it or not, I’d like to ask you a favor, especially if you have a blog or some other public forum.

Could you please post a review of StoryBox? Tell people what you really think. Be honest about it. If you loved it, tell people. If you hated it, tell them why. Tell me why.

Post a link in the comments here once your review is live, or send me the link at
support@storyboxsoftware.com and I will repost it, as well as link to it from the StoryBox website.

I’d really appreciate it.

And if you haven’t tried StoryBox, download it and try it and tell me what you think.

Software, StoryBox

StoryBox 1.3.103 Released

Yeah, it’s the day after a release and I’m releasing another one. Got some good reports yesterday of some formatting troubles with certain things in the ePub export, and I just couldn’t stand to let them sit there and fester. All of them are fairly minor, unless you’re trying to have the copyright symbol display correctly, or you use accented characters.

Read the release notes. There’s information about how to add clickable URL’s and email address to your ebook.

http://www.storyboxsoftware.com/download.htm