Hey everyone, brief break from Rise of the Lunar Champion to give you a progress update of where I’m at in all my stuff, some of it same-old-same-old, but some of it is new and exciting!
So first off, new editions of Sun’s Guard: Ten, Page, and Knight are well underway. Ten has all of the covers redone, and is re-edited and formatted. Page and Knight have their digital covers done, and their paperbacks are just waiting on me to finish with edits and formatting. I’m not expecting them to have drastic page changes, but the way Amazon has set up their templates, I gotta be careful. Page is done with edits and I’m halfway done with formatting, and I’ll be about a third of the way through Knight edits by the end of the day today. Ginny O. is doing me a solid and helping me out with this, and I really appreciate it.
New books time, Sun’s Guard: Autumn has at least the front of the cover done, it’s waiting to be finished because I need to be done editing all three of the books going in it and then I can get a template to Ginny (see the above statuses, lol). Sun’s Guard: Queen also has its digital cover completed, and I’m about halfway through its content edit. This is a bit of a more intensive content edit than Page or Knight got (though still no where near what Ten went through), so while in theory that part will be done this weekend, I also know that it needs the most work on the back half, so it may surprise me. Then it will need a structure edit and then a grammar, and it will be ready.
My current plan, if scheduling allows, is I am going to do a staggered release with all of these updates. So tentatively, Queen is going to be released December 22nd, with Autumn coming out a few weeks before on December 1st. Then November will see the releases of all these new editions, starting with Ten on November 10th. This relies on everything going to schedule, and I finish formatting Knight on the 10th. If I don’t finish on the 10th and it looks to me that I have too far left to go, then I will definitely delay something somewhere and give you all another update.
Swan’s Azalea is still in hibernation. I did some puttering with filling in some names for fun Easter eggs in the appendix (assuming I’m allowed to keep it), started building up some genealogies because I want to be sure I don’t say something contradictory, and I’ve made extensive notes on stuff I want to add. I’m thinking I’ll take two weeks off once I finish Queen, poke at some game stuff, then I’ll let myself work on editing it a little early. As the longest thing I’ve written, I feel like it has the most potential to actually get traditionally published, so I want to really give it the work over.
I’m just wrapping up working on some more Rise of the Lunar Champion shorts, so we should be safe for another year. I hope everyone is enjoying this, it’s been a hard challenge for me but also fun to follow a character as they grow up. I know some people are at least enjoying Eira’s relationship with her aunt. XD I’ve also finally made some progress in Pokemon X, if I sit down to do some playing tonight like planned, I should be ready to face the gym this week and we’ll be 6 gyms down! I did get some good story ideas on this route, which makes me glad I decided to wait and work on the story after I finished the game.
That’s all for now, let me know if there’s anything else you want updates on, or if you have ideas for me and social media. I’ve got the Facebook but I hardly know what to do with it, I’m refusing to use Twitter/X, and I don’t think I have enough picture-stuff (or bravery) to do Instagram? But social media isn’t my thing and I’m willing to listen to input from those who read through all this.
Rebecca M Horner 