I’ve spent the week working on Her Demonic Angel in second draft, amongst other things.
Her Demonic Angel will be the fifth book in my popular Her Angel romance series, and it’s the second novel. I had a poor start to the week. Monday was spent dealing with things to do with Masquerade, the tenth Vampires Realm romance series book and my latest release. Because I wanted to keep on target with the Her Demonic Angel edits, I decided to take my work with me to a Starbucks on Tuesday and Wednesday. It certainly helped me get some quality work done. I managed to edit 100 pages out of 350, and also wrote around 5.5 tour posts for the Masquerade Book Tour.
I’ve made a good start on the edits for Her Demonic Angel, but today was a complete bust. I did edit 30 pages of the book, but I was at home and for some reason I was very distracted by about a zillion things. You ever have those days where you just keep wanting to do something else, and you know that giving in to that urge is the only way of getting over it and moving on?
First it was an urge to check book sales and see how I’m doing versus my targets. It’s very difficult at the moment because the influx of free books on Amazon Kindle due to the KDP Select programme has begun to have a knock on effect on sales in general at the site. I think sales are down across the board because readers have been loading up their Kindles for free and most of them probably have enough books on there to keep them going for a very long time! I’m sure that Amazon will be changing the rules regarding the KDP Select programme soon so authors can’t offer books for free, or can only offer them for 1 day not 5 days. I can’t imagine they’re happy with the lower income themselves.
After I had assuaged my fears about having to return to work (yes, I am a full time author and that is my job, but that isn’t work 😉 ) at any point in the near future, I went back to work. Edited a few more pages. Had an urge to see if it’s better to get an espresso machine that can also steam milk for latte / cappucino, or get ones of those Tassimo type affairs that uses little plastic pods. I preferred the idea of having control over what milk I use, what coffee I use and no sugar, so went with a De’Longhi espresso machine that will be arriving tomorrow.
Cue getting more editing done. Then I ended up going to my local store to get coffee for the impending arrival of the espresso machine. More editing. Had an overwhelming urge to wash my hair. More editing. Had a hankering to attempt to make cinnamon buns for the first time.
At this point, I gave up with editing. It was fairly obvious that I wasn’t in the right zone today. I really need to find that zone again when working from home. I’d rather not spend £10-£15 a day (um, $16-25) in a coffee shop. You can imagine how that adds up if you’re there 4 days a week. Ouch.
But, the edit on Her Demonic Angel is coming along. I think my concentration just burned out a little today but I’ll be back on form when I next sit down to edit. I’m thinking that will be Monday, but who knows as it’s the Queen’s Jubilee weekend here in the UK so there’s a lot of celebrations going on and two days of holiday, and my husband will probably be off for some of that time.
Oh, and my cinnamon rolls aren’t pretty but they taste so good.
It’s almost 5:30pm, and typically I’m suddenly in the mood to edit. Veiron will have to wait.ÂÂ
