And November is a wrap! Time for the next Infinitas Publishing Status Report!
I’ve highlighted the projects that had changes in blue. 🙂
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Starless Night: (Book 3 of the Distant Horizon series). Published! 😀
For release week we did a launch party via the Distant Horizon Universe newsletter, with a giveaway of The Glitch Saga, a temporary price drop of Distant Horizon to 99 cents (along with a few paid ads), and made several themed renders based on Starless Night.
The next step for Starless Night will be setting up the print edition, though I’d like to do one more read-through for typos before that.
Changing Tides: (Book 4 of the Distant Horizon series). NaNoWriMo concluded with this draft at 57,000 words. I’m expecting the final draft to be around 150,000 words, but I’m temporarily putting the drafting process on hold since I want to revise what’s already there to make sure the story is on track before writing further. The break will likely last between a week to a month, in order to give me a fresh perspective during revisions. I don’t want to wait much longer than that, however, since I don’t want to run into the issue of forgetting plot details again, which caused a major slowdown for the drafting of Starlight Night.
The Glitch Saga (Distant Horizon spin-off series): Goal is to eventually create a new cover and print edition for the complete collection edition. (On hold).
Galina’s Saga (Deceived) – (Distant Horizon spin-off series): On hold. I still need to add Isaac’s notes from Deceived #4 into the manuscript and then make edits to #2-4 before revising #5 and handing it off to him for his feedback.
I still need to finish updating the book cover and decide on a series title.
Lily’s Story: (Distant Horizon series spin-off/prequel novel) On hold. (Has outline).
Sky Runner: (Multiverse novel). On hold. (Has outline)
The Multiverse Chronicles: On hold. (Needs edits).
Little One: On hold. (Needs revisions).
TWB 4: (Book Four of The Wishing Blade series). Needs rough draft written. Needs updated outline. On hold.
Runes and Ravens (Stone and String 3): Needs outlining and revision. On hold.
The Secret in the Shadows: (Prequel novella for The Wishing Blade) On hold.
The Legends of Cirena – Collaborative Adventure Facebook Group: On hiatus.
The Dark Forest of Aneth (“Ro’nor (“The Restless Sands of Neel”) & Zynia (“The Dragons of the Mist”) cross-over / A Legends of Cirena short novel): Rough draft needs completed via the Collaborative Adventure Facebook group, and there are a couple scenes I’d like to add earlier in the story. I already have a book cover concept, which still needs to be completed. On hold.
The Wind Mage and the Wolf (“Livena (The Wind Mage of Maijev”) & Nuaka (“The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear”) cross-over / A Legends of Cirena short novel) : The Joran short story project is on hold.
Legends of Cirena Epic: I have discovered the usefulness of Scrivener for outlining. This is my current project while giving the Changing Tides draft a chance to breathe. My goal is to flesh out more details for this story and start stringing together the different plot points. The idea behind this is that there have been several overarching plot points references throughout the Legends of Cirena story, and I want to cover those and wrap them up. I’m not 100% sure how I will present this, but I’m thinking it may be in novel form as a fantasy epic. I’m not sure if it would be a stand-alone book or a series. That I’ll determine once I finish outlining/plotting.
Right now, my goal is to plot this arc and get the notes figured out. I’m not sure if I’ll try writing any of it before switching back to drafting Changing Tides, but I’m using it as a breather project. (Bonus: it’ll help be figure out a couple plot points necessary to completing The Dark Forest of Aneth and Runes and Ravens).
“MOG”: On hold. (Needs revisions)
Changeling: (Huntress #2) Needs formatting for print. On hold.
Huntress: The ebook edition has mostly reverted back to paid.
Huntress 3: Needs rough draft completed. (Currently at 25,000 words) On hold.
Game Design: Isaac made a few updates to our Legends of Cirena tabletop game, though it’s otherwise on hold.
Game design is otherwise on hold. Future plans in game design involve: possibly preparing a print-and-play version of Battle Decks, polishing the elemental game card art and testing mechanics, and looking into options for feasibly producing Phalanx.
Space Adventure Comic: On hold.
Villain Problems: (WIP panels viewable on my Instagram). This is a for-fun project. Currently on hold, though I hope to get a few more panels rendered once I finish my current Daz project.
Emberverse (Working Title): Revisions on hold. Needs title. Needs outline for “Season 2.”
Marketing: No new paid ads have been planned as of yet, however the newsletter giveaway promos have been chosen and the weekly promo highlights have all been scheduled for this month. 😀
Future goals: Revise Amazon ads, link to my pinterest account on the Infinitas Publishing website, overhaul book categories and keywords, and do the usual business ledger upkeep. Look over my notes from the 20Booksto50K online conference and determine what plan of action I’d like to take for the next few months.
LitRPG / GameLit Story: On hold. (Needs revisions and restructuring).
Other Stories: I’d like to submit a short 2-8 page comic script to an anthology that has open submissions this month. We’ll see if I can get something put together by the due date. Since I haven’t really done comic scripts before, I don’t expect it to be accepted, but I think it might be a fun experience.
The YA SciFi Alien Invasion/Dystopian Conspiracy short story revisions are on hold (though I have ideas for a couple plot changes).
SBibb’s Photographic Illustration: The Cover proof and basic ebook formatting has mostly been completed for the indie press I have a project from. I had hoped to be a little further along by this point, but the next step is print formatting and polishing the cover image.
Future Goals: Update the Infinitas Publishing website banner. Figure out a schedule for uploading general art projects.
Daz PA: No new releases this month, but I finally finished my holiday freebie and submitted it. I have a couple ideas for what the next project might be, but I plan to finish the cover/formatting project for the indie press, first.
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Happy writing and reading (Or 3D rendering if you’re into Daz)! 🙂
Stephanie Flint - Author and Artist 