I said I was going to take an actual day off. I said that. So why am I here right now? I’m not even sure other than it’s engrained in me to do something every damn day. However, when I woke up it was only 67°F instead of a gazillion outside. I got to open some windows and I’m ecstatic about that. I also woke up to a couple online sales, which—I probably shouldn’t admit this, but oh well—is always a pleasant surprise. So all in all, it’s shaping up to be a good day. And after I write this, I really am going to take some time off. I started reading Night Angel Nemesis by Brent Weeks and it’s calling my name. I’ve been sitting on that one for a while and it’s time.
Anyway, I’m a week out from Spellbound Books’s Spooky Book Fair at the West End Trading Co. in Sanford, FL. The nerves haven’t quite set in as hard as they did for the Page and Pen Festival, not yet anyway. Maybe because the nerves from Page and Pen have barely settled. It will hit, inevitably. I am excited, though, even if life be lifin’ and has thrown some annoying curve balls in real life that the household has had to navigate. All my inventory restock is scheduled to arrive before event day, though, so that’s a win. I’ll be trading my 8 ft table set up for a 3 ft by 3 ft, but that’s not a big deal. My very first event this year was a 3×3, so I’m familiar with the spacial changes. It’s all about being adaptable sometimes.
I don’t really have anything new to add to my announcements. My schedule looks more or less the same. Spooky Book Fair on the 19th, Merritt Square Mall con on November 8th, working through an official editing job before I let myself pull Order of Crows book 3 out of time out, Sevina Gate novella series in the works. There’s some rustling among the Fae-Cursed characters but no one is actually talking, which is fine for now because I’m trying to get this editing finished in a decent time frame. I like to believe I’ll have time to work on this, my second job of indie author/editor life, in November and December but . . . holidays. Bleh.
A January release for Order of Crows book 3 is . . . a big dream that might not be attainable, but that doesn’t mean it can’t happen around that time. I will, at least, get my cover some time that month, so the formatting will have to done by then. I’d prefer to have the book in its final form before formatting but I might have to do that adapting thing and change my process a bit. I don’t know, we’ll see how that goes. The up side of that is now that I’ve formatted six books, the formatting is not as much of a pull-my-hair-out event and more of a day or two of concentration. There’s something to be said for experience, I suppose.
Well, I think that’s enough for now. I’m going to go do that time off thing now. Happy Sunday, everyone!
Aj Elmore, Author 