What I’ve been reading: Indie
Author Survival Guide by Susan Kaye Quinn. This book is a compiling of her blog
posts over the years that have to do with Indie Publishing. It is broken into
segments, like a post, making it easy to go right to the part you may need help
with at the moment. Very user friendly and well written.
What I’ve been writing: My
book for NaNo is The Newstead Project from Steven’s perspective, so to prepare
for that I’ve been writing short stories from Steven’s perspective both before
Newstead and during his first 2 years. This has been really helpful in nailing
down his voice.
What’s inspiring me right now:
Because of the extremely dark nature of the book I’m about to write, I’ve been immersing
myself in documentaries/film footage from the Holocaust, the rise of the Third Reich,
etc. Not really fun, but necessary.
What else I’ve been up to: Biting
my nails. Seriously. This waiting
for release day is grueling stuff.
I know I’ve been skimping a bit
on my twelve days till release day, and I apologize for that. I promise on day
twelve (Friday) I’ll have some news that will make up for it.