InsaneJournal

Current mood:

rushed

Progress, and cleaning...
Okay, so we got our Kirby vacuum cleaner in yesterday, and today, Rosa came over to clean up the apartment. We looked like kids fighting over a new toy. ^_^ Both of us took turns cleaning up around the place, and while I feel very proud of my manual labor, I am now REALLY sore.

Today, I continued in my efforts to revise Trail of Madness. I'm updating the formatting to match the style in Redemption Lost, and I've been fleshing out details in both the scenes and the character descriptions. I started all the way at the beginning, and I made it back into part two, where I was working before. Once I finish part two, I'll move over to part three from The Lesser of Two Evils.

The basic plan is, once I finish these revisions, I'm going to have Sam read all three books in chronological order. And if this works out, I'll begin working on making the updated files for the first two books.

I know I have to pay for one more round of revisions on the Lulu books. This is unavoidable, as the books will still be the only print versions available for the next six to seven months. I can't close production on them without killing sales on Redemption Lost, and I might also kill sales by not providing a cleaner edit on both books.

The e-books matter is now solved. The Lulu books will be using their same ISBN number, and I'll use two separate ISBN numbers to make the e-book versions of the first two parts. Once I publish the fully edited versions, I can retire the Lulu editions and the e-books, instead using a unified release under new numbers. This means losing two numbers from my initial block, but if I don't do it this way, there won't be a method of selling the first two e-books in the major distribution channels. And again, only having out book three in a trilogy is likely to make for poor sales.

I'm going to bed early tonight, because I have to head to Cormano tomorrow to discuss a potential job as a web-editor of sorts. If this pays as much as hubby says, I might have a way to pay for the editing on both of my books this month. Which would rock, because then I could start saving up money, and ATP can make a call for submissions. So, I have my fingers crossed.

Later...