Journey to Self-Publishing

Okay, I literally JUST finished drafting my newsletter update where I'm sharing the cover of The Mark of Thieves, so that's a huge thing!

You can tell we're coming up on the end of the school year because my mood is just SKYROCKETING. (Almost dooooonnnneeeee!) I was really feeling that joy and excitement this weekend, which was "wear my Regency dress to the Pride & Prejudice screening" weekend. It was a remarkably lovely and bookish time!

Folks, we are getting SO close to calling TMOT "done."

TWO people have added TMOT to their Goodreads TBRs. TWO, y'all! Yayyy!!

Well. It's been a hot minute, hasn't it? I skipped two weeks of blogging — sorry, everyone. I was out of town the first weekend for my wedding anniversary and the second for my nephew's birthday, so it's been a busy time.

Writing Update Okay, a lot happened this week! Copy edits came back from the editor. Woohoo! My biggest sin seemed to be "There is/There...

I SENT MY MANUSCRIPT OFF TO MY EDITOR!

Writing Progress A week and a day until I send off The Mark of Thieves for editing! Aaaaah! (Also aaah! — remember that time I finished...

Oh my goodness — after months of saying, "Soon, I swear," I launched my author newsletter ! I'm . . . terrified. Terrified . I'm so...

Life Update I took an unplanned hiatus from the blog last week, out of necessity rather than desire. I spent about a week in the UK for...

Words-wise, this was definitely a slower week, though not an unproductive one. Here's what we got done:

Image ID: a screenshot from the Pacemaker website showing a total of 101,109 words written 37 days before the target goal. Blog Change...