The Sweetest Downfall

Eugh. Where did January and February go? Too fast, I say!

Let's recap February. I managed to do a re-read of A Tale of Two Geeks and highlight some weaknesses so now it's ready for me to re-draft before I offer it up for feedback. I also began editing and posting Prisoner of Conscience as a free read and getting that put out there for the consumption of the public. I started plotting a bit more on Quisling. And I added like three pages to Fugue of Shadows. I wouldn't call February either productive or successful, but it wasn't a complete waste.

So March will be better.

Well, first things first, I'm going to tackle is the self-publishing of Monster. I plan to do every part of that this month short of actually publishing it, since I still need to find a cover artist. But for now, I'm going to edit, issue the all-call for people to give it a read through, and finalize the format. I've got some tugs on my fishing line for a cover artist, so all I might be waiting on is the feedback and final edits. Yay! Good thing is, if this cover artist works out, then I can probably get a few more pieces of cover art made even for my non-publishing pieces just so I have something to work with. Excitement!

I have a lot of fanfiction I'm going to be working on but March is mainly the month of Monster. Hah. I'm also considering re-titling it since Monster is kind of generic, though I still think it suits the story perfectly.

Oh, and I plan on adjusting my original fic tumblr so that I can reblog and shit from it so that I can find this stuff easier than digging through my dracoqueen22 tumblr. It's going to be nicolewilkinsonwrites, which is almost the same as what I have now except without the dashes. Huzzah!

And that's March. Here's hoping this new job doesn't continue to sap my free time.

I have a release date! Yay!

It is... August 14, 2010!

That's amazing. I'm really happy for this one because it is more of an All Audiences publication rather than The Requiem of Janus which was limited to an open-minded, adult, erotic-interested audience.

Here's a link to where you can read all about my upcoming update on Sugar and Spice Press' coming soon page. You may have to scroll down a little to find me.

http://www.sugarnspicepress.com/index.php?main_page=page&id=1&zenid=vh4e8ktls4u0idaedmplbslv57

I'm so excited!

I just met my editor for Monster. She was really nice and she loved the story! Which is always a good thing. She even complimented my editing skills, mentioning that she needed to correct very little.

Booyah!

So I received the first draft last night and got so excited that I looked through it and sent it right back within an hour.

No further changes needed to be made. Huzzah!

Now I am just waiting for it to be officially published. Excitement!

In other news, I'm down to 133K for the rewrite of The Requiem of Janus. I pulled out one scene that I plan to release as a oneshot later and I ripped out another small plot that's pretty boring. Let's hope I can pull out 13K more.