Please forgive. :-)
News for the Week of 1.24.13: Nadya, Three Dances, Webhouse, and Twitter
Greetings friends and readers!
So many exciting things to talk about I wonder if I can
possibly keep this short. But here goes!
First off: Nadya is about to head off to my early readers!
I’ve also got a hand-drawn cover mockup ready for Wattpad, so as soon as I get
enough positive feedback to be reasonably certain I’m not going to change the
first chapter drastically, it’ll be up for you to read. I’m all abuzz, because
I think you’re going to love it.
Second: Three Dances is moving along splendidly! I’ve got
all the artwork finished, and I’ve been working on page design for the e-book
version. It’s. Going. To. Be. AWESOME! I can’t believe how well some of my
experiments are turning out. It’s nothing like Soulwoven or Nadya---it’s a
weirder, harder book for an older audience---but I’m incredibly proud of it,
and I can’t wait for it to go out into the world. I’ve targeted March 1 for a
release date (admittedly, it’s an aggressive target, and one I may miss), which
means I may start putting stories from it up on Wattpad as soon as next week!
Thirdly: I’m having great fun as an editor these days. Last
week I did a Twitter chat with some of the people I work with at Carina Press,
and it was an absolute blast. We’re doing another one at the end of the month
(1/31) from 2pm to 3pm EST using the hashtag #carinachat. If you’re on Twitter,
come by and ask us questions! It’s a great way to get answers about publishing
straight from the horses’ mouths.
Fourthly: My website is ready! After months of cobbling and
tinkering with it in my spare time, I’m finally confident that it’s not going
to spring a leak and sink into the Internet’s harbor, so it’s time to launch
it. You can check it out at www.jeff-seymour.com.
And oh yeah! Soulwoven continues to roll along and pick up
new reads, votes, and fans. We’re up to nearly 140,000 reads already. I promise
the Aleani language primer soon. And when it hits 200,000, I’ll post one for
the Sh’ma.
Thanks for reading, loving, and believing.
-Jeff
New for the Week of 1.30.13: Quiescence, Nadya is Scary, and More Twitter
Greetings Friends and Readers!
It’s been a fairly quiet week. Mostly I’ve been fielding
feedback on Nadya as it comes in (so far it’s 4/4 on being reported
unputdownable), tweaking things on it, and fiddling with some short stories. I’d
like to put the first chapter up for you soon.
In fact, I think I’ll do it tonight, as soon as I’m done
writing this newsletter. The only reason I haven’t quite yet is that, frankly,
I’ve heard such good things about it so far that I’ve become afraid of it. And
that’s not a good reason to do or not to do anything, really.
Soulwoven is still quietly doing its thing. Interestingly,
it’s been picking up fewer reads this week but more votes and comments than
usual. I’m not sure what to make of that. A few weeks back there was a giant
one-day spike in reads that I’m more inclined to attribute to some sort of
reckoning in Wattpad’s system than anything else. So I’m wondering if it
Wattpad might be on the blink again somehow. Bonus content still on the way.
Sequel still on my to-revise list.
I whiffed on my call with my copy editor and now have to try
to get ahold of her again before I can move forward on Three Dances, so that’s
on hold for the moment as well, to my great frustration.
All in all a quiet week, I suppose. I’m not sure how it’s
gotten to be Wednesday night already.
One final thing: tomorrow I’ll be doing an editor chat with
the Carina Press on Twitter again. The topic is submissions, and we’ll be
taking questions on the hashtag #CarinaChat from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. EST. The last
one we did was a lot of fun, so if you’re a Twitterer and you have any
questions about the submitting to a publisher, come on over and ask away!
Thanks as always for all your support. I hope you enjoy
Nadya, and I look forward very much to hearing what you think of her. :-)
-Jeff
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