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Cover Reveal - Take Two
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Fast-forward to 2025: The rights have reverted to me, and I'll be republishing it myself in a couple months. Here's the new cover, in all its brooding glory. Nothing fancy, but it does the job. And it doesn't make me cringe every time I look at it. That's an improvement.
But wait, there's more: I'm planning to rapid-release both sequels this summer as well. So stay tuned for cover reveals and blurbs galore!
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The Halfway Point
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Passed the 45K mark in my latest work-in-progress: Angels & Androids (Dome City Investigations, Book 3). I'm feeling pretty good about where the story's going; I just wish I had more writing stamina these days. And time. That's it for excuses. I'm averaging a few hundred words a day when I can BICHOK (butt in chair, hands on keyboard). A far cry from the 1K/day regimen I had going for a while, but any movement in the right direction is progress. So I'm celebrating this minor victory.
When will the first draft / sloppy copy be done? No idea. End of the school year would be ideal—then I could spend the summer on revisedits and formatting with an autumn release in mind. At the end of Book 2, I gave myself an easy out and said the third installment wouldn't be available until Spring 2026. Maybe I'll aim for something in between. Split the difference.
Right now it's all about BICHOK: the discipline to shut out a myriad of distractions and give this novel the attention (I think) it deserves. Having plenty of fun along the way, of course.
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15 Years
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I'll never forget how excited I was to get that acceptance letter. Holy cow! I remember I was at work, on break checking my email, and I had to scramble to the restroom. Wasn't sure I'd be able to contain myself in public. Later that year, I'd sold enough short fiction to buy the Kindle I named Gizmo, still with me to this day. (Take that, planned obsolescence.)
If I've done the math correctly, I've spent only 1% of my royalties over the years, hoarding the other 99% into a high interest-yielding account. Every now and then, I'll spend the monthly interest on something fun like a new cover for Gizmo or a TV series from way back when. Things I can look at and go, "Hey. My wordsmithing paid for that."
Writing brings in only about 5% of my annual income, so not enough to live on. (Unless I move into a van down by the river. Mrs. Fowler might object.) Even so, that 5% is hard-fought, considering the millions of other authors out there vying for readers' attention. Every time someone buys one of my books, it takes me right back to that day I sold my first story. And that feeling is priceless.
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