My schedule since December began has been rather fouled up in one way or another, or in multiple ways in the case of one week. I managed to claw back a little sanity that week but I have spent the past week stuffed up with a cold that has been gradually driving me crazy (see my emo tweets and facebook posts — you’d think this cold was the end of the world) and slowing me down. Needless to say, progress has been faltering at best.
I have managed to complete the initial read through of Masquerade (Vampires Realm #10) which is due out at the end of January 2012, and have transferred all my amendments from my Amazon Kindle 3 (I love you) to my word document in preparation for this polish phase of editing.
However, I haven’t made much progress other than that and I had wanted this book completed bar a couple of proofing sessions by the end of this coming week. I wanted Christmas off. So sue me. I always plan to have Christmas off and then end up working it. For once I wanted to stick to my guns and read some books that I hadn’t written myself and watch some movies.
I think it’s still possible, but the life of an author is give and take. I may have to do some work in order to hit my deadlines, as well as spend some time promoting my current offers and latest book, Heart of Darkness. Poor Heart of Darkness has been given a bad run of it lately. I’ve neglected it because I’ve been so focused on my paranormal romance books on offer. It’s hard to juggle that many balls and not drop some.
If you are looking for a rather passionate, intense vampire romance book, then you should definitely check out the excerpt of Heart of Darkness and see if it’s for you. You can download samples from Amazon and Barnes and Noble, or read the excerpts here on my blog. It’s been receiving great reviews and a lot of love from readers, and is only $3.99 in ebook.
Now, back to my editing. At worst, I will have to shunt my schedule by a week, pushing Masquerade closer to an early February release date instead. I can’t push it too far as I have my second ear operation in late February and want to have completed my blog tour for Masquerade by then and be underway with preparations for my Covet blog tour so I can rest up after the operation and not have to worry about things. Yes, 2012 is going to be another year full of blog tours but hopefully I’ll handle it better this time. I think I did well with my tours this year considering that I was new to it all, and I’m looking forward to trying out some new things next year.
I do think that I can hit my deadline if I get my head down this week. I have a lot of marketing activity planned for the week though, so I might have to get my concentration up somehow. Hopefully I’ll shift this cold soon and will be able to focus better. At the moment, it’s really bugging me and sniffling is rather distracting, along with the constant headache!
I’m also researching some ideas for giveaways and marketing I want to do next year, and want to formulate my plan for the year so I can start putting it all into action. Should be another crazy year!
I promise I’ll move Heaven and Hell to get Masquerade out on time.
😀
