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I promised myself that I was going to start promoting both the series, and Cindy’s story as soon as I got them all republished.  It was a brilliant plan!  Promote your books, make some money, rinse and repeat.  So…what did my dumb ass do instead?  I started writing the next series book.  I already have two chapters done and I’m working on the third right now.  Not only am I working on another book, but I’m typing with numb fingers on a keyboard I hate just to write it.  Why are my fingers numb?  I had carpal tunnel surgery on my right hand, and the nerves will take up to a year to recover.  My left hand is numb now and needs surgery as well, but I’m going to try to avoid that with ice and stretching if I can.  Why do I hate this keyboard?  Because I’m constantly masking typos because of my fingers, and it’s got a piss poor layout as far as the enter key and the backspace key, and the keys are a bit smaller than I’m used to, so I’m constantly hitting the s with the a, and the \ | key when I go to hit enter.  I wanted a keyboard with the large, backward L enter key that I’m used to, but they’re practically impossible to find anymore.  Sigh…

As for the book, I don’t have a title for it yet, and to be perfectly honest, it’s already turned into something story-wise that I hadn’t intended to do when I started it.  I knew a couple of things that I wanted to do with it, but now I have a story element that just developed on its own that’s going to end up being the main focus of the book.  Not only did it develop on its own, but at the end of the second chapter, it develops in a way that wouldn’t have even occurred to me until it actually came time to write it.  That’s actually one of my favorite things about being an author.  I can just type, and the story flows out of me in such a natural way that it almost feels like I’m channeling it from somewhere.

Anyway, that’s it for now.  Will just snarfed his coffee after Steve mentioned how Tina never seems to have any trouble farting, so I’d better get back to it and help him recover. 😉

As I’m sitting here now, I can’t believe it’s finally over.  Seven years worth of work to re-edit the entire Unseen Things series to second edition, plus adding a new book to the series, plus releasing a second edition version of Cindy’s story as well.  Many of the second editions have new or updated covers, new or updated Author’s Notes, additional content, and for the first time ever, every single book has a print version, as well as an ebook.

There’s 23 books in total with Cindy’s Story.  Now I just have to figure out how to market them.  That’s the hard part. 😛

I’ve finished publishing the entire series of 2nd edition re-edits, along with the 22nd book in the series, Aftermath.  All the books have print versions now as well.  Next I have to do the 2nd edition of Cindy’s Story, and then I’ll start working on what could possibly be the 23rd book in the series.  God I’m exhausted.  This was just a ridiculous amount of work.

I finally finished all the work on Trackers 2nd edition and got it re-published. Now I’m working on reformatting the first six print books, as well as fixing up a few things that I missed in each one during the editing passes. Origins 2nd edition is updated, and I’m working on The Hunt (book 2) right now.  As soon as I get all six done and updated, I’ll get to work on the finish work on the 8th book and continue on from there.

Where have I been? My right hand has been having some bad problems. I can’t make a fist, and my fingers are numb, which as you can imagine makes it incredibly hard to type without making constant typos. It set my work schedule back by months already, because I didn’t want to do any work on republishing the series when there was a higher than normal chance I’d have typos in it and end up screwing things up without even realizing it.  That does bring me to my news though.  I’m almost ready to republish book seven, Trackers.  I finished the new print cover today after some hangups I had in re-rendering the cover, but I finally managed to get a close approximation of the original, so we’re good to go.  I’ll probably get it published this evening at some point, and then I’ll start working on the print version of the 8th book.

I have an appointment on Monday for a nerve conductivity test, so they can find out where the problem is with my hand, and then I have a follow up at the hand doctor in mid-March. Hopefully we’ll get this thing resolved so I can start playing bass again.  I haven’t been able to play since this whole thing started. 🙁

After three editing passes on the final book, I’ve finally completed the 2nd edition re-edits.  Now I’m facing all the work that comes after, including some new covers, new synopses, new author notes, print versions, print covers, etc…

I’ll be republishing each book as I complete it, and just work my way through them one at a time.  I’m hoping to have them all republished by late September, and then once all those are done and republished, I’ll start the re-edits on Cindy’s Story, and get it republished as well.  Then, once that’s done, I’ll start thinking about what I want to write next.  I wrote Aftermath to be the final book in the Unseen Things series, but I can’t say for sure that it’ll actually be the final book.  There are definitely some story elements that I could work into whole new stories, or I could just start up with a whole new book that’s completely unrelated to the series, which at this point is what I’ll probably end up doing.

Anyway, I got a lot of work still ahead of me, but at least there’s some light at the end of the tunnel now. 🙂