I am now at just over 80% of the way through my final edit of A Fool’s Errand.

Out of the past six plus weeks this last has been the most productive and I can see the finish line.

Setting the release date has been another significant part of the last month as well. It will be available on October 16, 2020.

Key Work of Late:

• Editing A Fool’s Errand
• Recieving my first print proof of the novel, which was pretty special.
• Maintaining weekly episodes of In All Jest podcast, I’m up to episode 9
• Getting all my ducks lined up for the publishing process.

I’ve been working through my final edit of book one, A Fool’s Errand. It has started slowly but am now getting to build momentum.

Being my first time receiving an editor’s feedback on a fiction manuscript there’s been a lot of things to get sorted out in regards to how I process the inputs and move through the work.

This weekend has been productive and I feel that I’m making serious headway. I’m behind on my schedule by about 30 chapters but we’ll see what happens from now on it.

I also released my podcast about the writing process, called of course, In All Jest. Find it here.

Key Work of Late:

• Editing A fool’s errand
• Approving the cover design for Book Two.
• Starting the In All Jest podcast, and I’ve now recorded and published four episodes.

Since the manuscript for A Fool’s Errand went off to my editor, I think I’ve gone crazy only three times so far. I don’t have many finger nails left either 🙂

In truth after a couple of weeks of pretending I wasn’t a writer, I have been busy reading the book on my kindle app, to get a feel for it after a break, and more importantly dug book two out of the cupboard, and started back on it.

I’ve also been planning out a new podcast I am starting all about the process I’ve been through and I’ll talk more about how my first draft became two books in an episode of that. Stay tuned for that.

I’ve been applying the processes I developed through the editing of A Fool’s Errand to put the nearly 90,000 words of book two into shape, and revisiting some characters I introduced there whom I love.

I have three weeks messing about on this before I get the original manuscript back and then it will be a race to get the book ready for my beta readers and proof reader.

I’ve been starting to look at some of the marketing strategies for the launch in September, and while I won’t be making a huge fuss of it, I’ll be wanting to get it out there.

Current plan is a September launch and then April 1 launch for book 2.

Key Work of Late:

• Reviewing Book 2 manuscript
• Outlining the existing book 2 manuscript and filling in some of the missing elements
• Reviewing character profiles and the map
• Sending off a brief for the book 2 cover
• Working out when I’ll release the map and cover for book 1