🎉 New year, new status report!
I’ve highlighted the projects that had changes in blue.
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Isaac’s Untitled Fantasy Story: On hold with a rough draft of 58,000 words.
Next up: Finish writing the rough draft for missing scenes, then do a revision pass on the earlier scenes now that I better remember how the magic system works. Once that’s done, this will likely return to being a back-burner project while I finish other projects.
Crafting Your Fictional World (Non-Fic Book): A small update to this: I drafted another worksheet for one of the chapters. I also did a little more work on Ream to start setting up the subscription option. Rough draft sitting at 22,000 words.
Next up: Create cover art for the book/Ream (which means doing a bit of non-fic cover research) and then revising enough chapters to have at least half a year’s worth of content for scheduling.
Sweetweird Genre Notes: On hold with 2,100 words.
Distant Horizon: (Book 1 of the Distant Horizon series): Next up: Paperback version of this in Atticus, which can be used on Draft2Digital in order to release a paperback version wide across multiple retailers, rather than only on Amazon. I intend to revisit the blurb before finalizing this. On hold.
Starless Night: (Book 3 of the Distant Horizon series). Blurb needs to be updated across all retailers.
Changing Tides: (Book 4 of the Distant Horizon series). On hold while working on Legends of Cirena #9. Next step is to merge the two revised drafts and start writing the missing scenes.
The Glitch Saga (Distant Horizon spin-off series): Goal is to create a new cover and print edition for the complete collection edition. (On hold).
Deceived (Distant Horizon spin-off series): Needs print formatting. On hold.
Betrayed (Deceived #2): So far, fourteen chapters have been posted to Wattpad (up from nine chapters last time). I still need to schedule the final chapter, which is set up aside from the note detailing what’s coming next for the series. The reason is that I want to note what’s coming next… whether I’ll be releasing book three via Wattpad as well and, if so, how long of a wait to expect.
Next up: Send this draft to beta-readers so I can start preparing for the ebook release. Continue revisions to Deceived #3. Add Isaac’s notes from Deceived #5 (formerly #4) into the manuscript, revise Deceived #5, and revise #6 (formerly #5) before handing it to Isaac for his feedback.
TWB 4: (Book Four of The Wishing Blade series). On hold. Next step is to finish adding the remaining outline to Scrivener, review that outline for missing plot points, and then write the rough draft.
Wishing Blade Prequel (Prequel novella for The Wishing Blade): On hold. Next step is to write the rough draft of the new scenes and begin revising the original scenes to match the updated outline.
Once complete, this is intended to be a newsletter-exclusive story.
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): On hold with a draft (both polished and rough sections) at 56,000 words.
Goals: Finish rough draft and polish. Edit the book cover.
The Wind Mage and the Wolf (“Livena (The Wind Mage of Maijev”) & Nuaka (“The Gryphon and the Mountain Bear”) cross-over / A Legends f Cirena short novel) : Joran’s short story is on hold. Still needs a couple scenes smoothed out, and I need to cross-reference the final scene in The Wind Mage and the Wolf (from Joran’s point of view). After that, it’ll be ready for a read-aloud and proofreading.
The Legends of Cirena Volume One (LoC #1-6 Collection): Upon reading the print edition, I discovered that I’d somehow managed to remove ellipses from two chapters of The Cursed Halls of Kalecen. I prioritized getting those added back into the print edition (and fixing a few other typos).
The updated file is now uploaded to KDP. There are still a few small tweaks I’d like to make (I learned how to make the ellipses look better in Atticus while getting them added back in) but that will be a side project for later. I also plan to update the ebook files of LoC 1-6 for the minor typos found, so that’s also on my radar as time permits.
Huntress 3: On hold.
Next up: Reread the first two books and create an outline.
Huntress Prequel: On hold at 18,000 words. Needs rough draft completed.
Game Design: On hold.
Mist Catcher (Isaac’s Sci-Fi Story): Isaac added an extra 1,300 words, leaving the current draft at 110,700 words, (not including the Halloween episode?).
Marketing:
I did join a few BookFunnel promos last month, and I included the blog’s book promo highlights. That said, I’ve noticed a low number of clicks on my end (especially since I stopped posting on Twitter/X because I was concerned I was only getting bot clicks), so I’m worried that I’m not providing as much value to the promo on my end. I do have one promo scheduled for January, but I need to re-evaluate these to see if there’s a better way for me to use them.
I did resume newsletters as planned, and I’ve been evaluating if there are any changes I’d like to make to the format of those. Amazon drip ads continued as well.
Next up: Continue adding sample chapters to the BookFunnel pages and the main Infinitas Publishing website, and update my author bio across the different websites. Eventually continue updating Stripe and Payhip so I can offer direct sales from the main website. Update the business ledger on a regular basis. Add a progress tracker somewhere for the different books. Revise Amazon ads, and overhaul book categories, keywords, and blurbs.
Other Stories: Despite very last minute procrastination, I managed to write a rough draft for my Writers of Warrensburg anthology, revise it, run it through ProWritingAid for edits, and then read it aloud with Isaac for a final polish before submitting it on the final day before the deadline.
Yay for outlines!
Next for that project is waiting to receive the manuscript swap for editing other submissions.
Next up: Revise ending of YA Alien Invasion/Dystopian story.
Other on hold projects include: a “for-fun” space/portal fantasy story rough draft, Mermaid/Siren Sci-Fi short story draft, and comic script (“If I Had Asked”).
Unofficial Minecraft FanFic: On hold.
SBibb’s Photographic Illustration: On hold.
Future Goals: Figure out a schedule for uploading general art projects. Update the SBibbPhoto website to incorporate Daz work, and fix the SEO information.
SIFlint Art: Pencil bags have arrived! Aside from being a little darker than expected, they came out nicely, I think. We’ve been selling them at our local comic/book shop, Black Ice.
Additionally, I managed to get one submission made for the Poorly Drawn Pets fundraiser for the Copper Country Humane Society.
Daz PA: I finalized my Diverse Worlds Genesis 9 morphs set and submitted it, but I did receive some feedback notes for changes that need to be made, so that’s my next step.
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Happy writing and reading (Or 3D rendering if you’re into Daz)! 🙂
Stephanie Flint - Author and Artist 