September update… and the question remains: Will I be ready to publish The Spinner’s Game quint at Christmas?
While it is possible, the time out from writing these past two months don’t inspire great confidence in reaching that target. After last month’s family commitments and medical appointments, I now have IT problems. Twice the machine has been to the menders. But now, I’m assure, I have a clean machine. Oh Yay! Now the problem lies outside of me, with glitches in Google’s performance and my internet provider. Hours waiting for pages to load, timed out, start again. It all eats up time when I could be forging ahead with the editing. However… stop whinging.
Book Four: Lady of First Making
Oh Yay! Oh Yay! Oh Yay! It is done. The revisions, the rewrites and the deep-down editing. And so, as promised, the book cover reveal.
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Another of Lauren’s wonderful designs. And doesn’t it look good in the series.
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Book Five: (working title Asaric Sins)
This is still out with my beta readers, particularly since one was late in starting it. But as I said last month, the feedback to date is overall good. Oh yes, there are amendments needed, and additional material to be inserted. But that waits till the last comment is in.
In the meantime, I continue to edit the previous three books. I sing the praises of Pro-Writing Aid, but wish I’d not discovered it. For I thought those books done, and this little add-in app shows me they’re not. Oh, but the difference it makes! That extra edit has my writing fair gleaming.
And that’s all for now folks. The next e-book update will be… Sunday 6th October (and now the butterflies begin!)
crispina kemp 
Congratulations on the completion of Book 4 Crispina 💐 Here’s hoping the technical difficulties will improve! 🙂🤞🌼
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I thank you. And yea, They seem to have eased off.
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Great! 🙂 Good to hear.
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These things happen. And all too often then laden us with stress. But I hadn’t got deadlines, unlike when I was working and I had materials to prepare for a conference, or such, and a dozen people relying on me, and none of them giving me their bits till the day before, and then the project manager releases upon us a virus. Yea, no wonder I suffered the effects of stress. Never happened when I was in the theatre. The worst then was the heating failing on a cold Easter weekend.
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Yah I get that. Deadlines! I had 2 six months with an international animation company. There were so many steps to get to the final cut. From casting to completion of the cartoon. It wasn’t funny! I can’t tell you what that did to me,
physically head to toe. With an L.A. Boss 3 hours behind me. Added and took away hours in my day. I guess we both know REAL STRESS lol
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You’ve got it. And once you’ve been through that, it’s like, never again. If you can help it. It’s certainly crazy to self-impose it. So you’re now looking at chill-factor 10. 🙂
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Nice to know you “10” 🙂
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🙂
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How exciting all of this is. I know the IT stuff can really throw a damper on things as I just went through all of that myself, but I know it is going to be perfect, regardless of when exactly it is ready. And in the end, I think that is what counts.
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That hiccup came as a reminder that I am the one setting the deadlines, so just stop pushing myself. It’s one of the reasons to go with KDP, so I’m not dancing to somebody’s schedule; one of the reasons I’ve said all five will be ready before I press the button. I had enough of high stress deadlines in the job that came after I quit the theatre that resulted in CFS/ME (illness). This past week has reminded me. So … chill, Crispy, chill.
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Looking forward to the relase! Are you putting them out all at once, or one at a time?
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My intention was to release all five together, but friends have advised to release three first off, then the other two a month or so later. Regardless, I don’t release until all are ready. To do so is to invite the unbearable stress of a deadline. And I’m sworn off them forever.
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Awesome! Love the cover too!
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I’ll relay that to Lauren. Of the five covers, this was the one that took us the longest to perfect.
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