Happy New Year!!! The Year in the Life of a Dark Fantasy Author

Happy New Year!!! It’s finally 2018. What’re your plans for this year? I’m still making mine. I have 2 books I’ve been working on since last year: Book 4 of The Jura Series and The Sciell’s Legacy the fourth and final book of the Merging Worlds Series.

I’ve also been playing around with the idea of releasing an anthology and a photo book. We’ll see if that’ll happen this year. I plan on releasing two books in 2018. If I have time, I’ll publish a third one, probably the photography book.

The first order of business is to fix Chains of the Sciell’s cover. I redid it not too long ago. When I got the paperback version, I realized a small problem in the design.

The blue symbol doesn’t stand out enough from the background. It didn’t blend in like that on my screen. I tweaked the cover over the weekend, changing the background.

After that, I’ll finish the paperback version of The Lost Sciell. The interior is pretty much done. I need to do the cover now.

Learned that Apex is open for novel and novella submission just for this month. I have a story in mind I’d like to submit but it’s too short. I’ll need to add to it, making it a novella.

What are your plans for the new year?

Similar Posts

  • Beta Readers

    I attended the Self-Publishing Book Expo over the weekend. I enjoy these type of events. Keeps me up-to-date on trends. The Expo also had a few exhibitors, most for businesses I’d never heard of! My publisher and I have been looking for more beta readers for Chains of the Sciell Book 2 of The Merging…

  • Bublish Case Study

    It’s a great time to be a writer. It’s also kind of a pain. Authors, no matter which route you take, have to be authorpreneurs. Fortunately, book promotion is like 90% digital. Only big name authors get print ads. New companies are creating ways to promote books. Because they want indie/hybrid authors to use them,…

  • Magic Systems

    If you’re a fantasy writer, you should subscribe to Mythic Scribes. They have some amazing articles. Are Magic Systems a Distraction? “Some of the greatest fantasy novels don’t have defined magic systems. Neither Harry Potter nor The Lord of the Rings have anything resembling a “system,” yet these stories are classics of the genre. In fact,…

  • Editing Out of Order

    Multiple POV characters is like having ten voices in your head. I’m worried I got the voices mixed up. Or worse, they all sound the same. Writing ten POV characters is tiring. Sometimes I just throw stuff in because I don’t want to deal with them. In the editing stages, how do you make sure…