⏰ Time for another Infinitas Publishing status report! 😊
I’ve highlighted the projects that had changes in blue.
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Isaac’s Untitled Fantasy Story: So… this was a backburner project as of a month ago, but I needed something that was already outlined for NaNo, so I snagged it to work on last month. (More about that change of plans here). I ended up writing 58,000 words for NaNoWriMo, and managed to keep up with par daily. Now I’m taking a break from writing for a few days, because that was exhausting while also trying to keep up with my evening shift at the library and preparing for the Poor Artist Sale. But… now there’s a good chunk of rough draft ready to go!
Next goal with this will likely be to finish writing the rough draft for any 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): Rough draft sitting at 22,000 words. On hold.
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): We’re now up to chapter nine on Wattpad! All episodes have been scheduled both for the newsletter and on Wattpad, with the exception of the final chapter. The reason is that I’d like to have a note with what’s coming next, and when, and that is still to be determined.
As it currently stands, this draft of Betrayed is set to be fully released on Wattpad in early February.
My next step is to send this draft to beta-readers so I can start preparing for the ebook release.
Future Goals: 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 for NaNoWriMo, 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): Print edition complete! I got the last chapter background illustrated, added in illustrations (both new and ones created for the Wishing Blade Universe newsletter), and finalized the formatting and cover.
There are a few minor tweaks I may make to the print edition before moving on from this completely, but I won’t make those changes until I have a chance to reread through the print edition (one last round of searching for typos, plus a reminder for any edits I need to make to LoC #9).
Huntress 3: On hold. Still planning on rereading the first two books and creating an outline. This might be a December project, though I primarily plan to use December for wrapping up small this-and-that projects.
Huntress Prequel: On hold at 18,000 words. Needs rough draft completed.
Game Design: On hold.
Mist Catcher (Isaac’s Sci-Fi Story): Last time this was at 46,600 words (including some notes). However, this was Isaac’s NaNoWriMo project, and he wrapped up the month with a whopping new 62, 845 words. 🎉
From what I can tell, that puts his latest draft at 109,400 words (not including the Halloween episode?)
Aside from taking a break after NaNo, I think his goal is to complete the series arc, which would complete the draft.
Marketing:
The Poor Artist Sale went well. Though we didn’t quite hit my target goal in sales, we got really close, and we did better than last year. 😁 And, aside from a rough start with setup (let’s just say that setting up the canopy with lights took longer than expected(, we were both happy with the final result.
We shared the booth with Lillie Rae Art, who had stickers and jewelry on their side (my favorite being the cat themed-bubble tea pin, and Isaac’s favorite being the little rainbow ghost pin).
Again, no new BookFunnel promos last month, though December is fully set up to have weekly book promo highlights. 🙂 I also plan to resume newsletters in December. Amazon drip ads continued as usual.
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. I finally remembered that my plan for Stripe and Payhip was to 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: On hold
Next up: Draft my next Writers of Warrensburg anthology short story. 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 been ordered (we did three designs… the Legends of Cirena era map, my nonbinary book dragon, and Isaac’s Celestial Tides dolphins in space), but they didn’t come in on time for the Poor Artists Sale.
We had also tossed around the idea of doing a coloring book with my Dragon Hoard designs, but didn’t have enough designs yet for that, so we instead printed coloring postcards through the local The Print Shop store. We printed nine designs, and created bundles of eighteen postcards (two of each design) with an eight-pack of crayons. (I ordered 43 packs of crayons from Michaels, whee!). We did sell those at the Poor Artist Sale.
Daz PA: I’ve finished the main shapes for the Genesis 9 version of my Diverse Worlds Head morphs set for 200 Plus Head and Face Morphs. All that’s left is to finalize the set, which I plan to prioritize now that NaNoWriMo is over.
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Happy writing and reading (Or 3D rendering if you’re into Daz)! 🙂
Stephanie Flint - Author and Artist 