Hullo friends! #amwriting panic stations. I have gotten The Date. By 27th Sept the platforms wants my latest book, Stainless Steel Souls, so they can have it definitely by October 1st, to satisfy all their (my) preorder customers.
I had 2 weeks and 2 days for edits from the day I learned of the date, but since then:
-I got conjunctivitis, as did my child-bot and feminine companion
-we got better, hers got worse
-my car died
-her car died
-my car is better
-I do not know what day it is, because Monday is usually grandparents visit day but we've been sick, so "events of the week" are totally out.
I woke up today, Monday, and honestly felt like it was Wednesday. It's a sheer force of effort to know where my mind is, let alone the day.
Excuses, right? No, just what's been going on while I've been trying to settle into good, 4-hour long edits of my book. So far I have managed exactly 0 of these.
Honesty gets you square with yourself. I have filled out 2 chapters with character descriptions that were lacking in my earlier edits, but I need proper chunks of time to write the missing chapters, needle the chapters that will hint at fun for the next book(s), and otherwise make sure it's fluffy and reader-friendly.
This has also meant not reading that book I saved for #amreading time, Andujar, the Robot Gentleman, but I guess now it's a reward book for after everything is actually submitted.
Support me, I love Mastodon and will keep writing whether I get wondrous sales or not. The link to the presale (.99c) of Stainless Steel Souls is in my profile, as well as to books 1 and 2, "The full life of a robot" and "A machine of blood".
Love you all, feel free to post your own promo too. @bookstodon
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