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Saturday, May 5, 2018

QUELLING...IS...ALIVE!!!

In March 2017, I stayed up all night to finish writing Quelling. I’ve stayed up till crazy hours to write, but this was different. April was CampNano (where you set a word-count goal for the month), and I wanted to be able to work on a new project for it. So I worked my butt off that final week of March (after having simply worked hard for the rest of the month). I was up for 25+ hours, most of that spent slaving over the final few scenes I had to finish.

At about 7:25 AM on April 1st, I finished. And then I was mentally done. I wrote maybe 2,000 words in April (where my goal was 50,000 and a mostly finished book in this other series). All I did, the whole month, was think about Quelling and miss my Puri-world characters.

*snort*

Coming out of the intensity of especially that final week of March (and the emotional brutality of the final-final scene I had to write, the one where Rab…ah, I can’t tell you) combined with trying to jump into a brand new story-world system…noooope. High hopes, but nope. Yet once it hit May, I struggled to dive back into Quelling. It was probably June, really, before I even started revising. For a while, I tentatively thought I could publish Quelling on my birthday (end of October), had things all planned out via spreadsheet, and…nope.

Everything just kept…taking…l o n g e r.

It has been delay after delay after delay for a good probably nine months or more. Between alphas/betas needing more time, to an editor’s revisions being more extensive than expected…to several different personal things that nearly crippled me, my plans and my, “Okay, I THINK it should be ready by ______,” just kept falling through. NOTHING has come easy with this book. (Even writing it, I restarted at least four or five times because it was just not working.)

And I tried, guys. I set a date for November 14th and even went so far as to have it up for preorder. I tried so dang hard to get it out by November. When it was clear that wasn’t happening, I pushed it back to December. And then I completely cancelled the preorder, cancelled the December release (so no Christmas presents, sad), and just winged it from there. I gave myself permission to take as long as I needed to finish. I tried to listen to my mind and body and not kill myself to get it all done. I just…let it go.

I’m a perfectionist and edge toward control freak, especially with the publishing process. “Winging it” is the opposite of what I do at this stage. I wing the writing a lot of the time. But absolutely not this part. To have to say, “I’m not sure yet” when people asked when I’d release it? And to really not be sure? Ahhh! And to have to say that for MONTHS? To have it up in the air for MONTHS?
*dies several times*

But now. Now.

May 5th. (Double 5s!) The day it goes live. It’s actually a day in the story itself when some big stuff happens. (Do I even need to say that was unplanned? Ha!)

Here it is. Years in the making, this beautiful, huge book that I am SO proud of for so many reasons. The delays no longer matter. The struggle is in the past, I’m stronger for it, and this book is…guys. Guys. I know at some point, someone will hate it, but I love it. I love it so much. 

It is immeasurably better for all of the delays.

Every.

Single.

One.

#ampublishing #amwriting #yadystopian #yafantasy

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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Just an update!

Hi, all! So, life has been crazy in a hundred ways, but I wanted to finally give some sort of update on things.

1. I am still alive, for one, haha!

2. Quelling is with the proofreader and will be out sometime around May.

3. I have dropped the ball so much on blogging, but I am still writing, and I hope to get at least one other book/novella out this year.

4. My facebook page is the best way to stay in touch with me: FACEBOOK

5. Sowing is available here: AMAZON

Thank you for checking out my blog! Someday, I will get back to this!

OH. And here is the BEAUTIFUL cover for Quelling! Be on the lookout for it!