The Blood of Queens Cover Reveal and Release Date

Editing... Done.

Formatting... Done.

All the ancillary prep work... Done

Cover... AMAZING!!!!

Thea Magerand has outdone herself AGAIN. Not only did she create the stunning artwork above, she put up with me while doing it!

Not so productive.

Short and sweet, writing last night, today, and tonight has been dismal.  I'm having trouble staying focused and actually getting anything done.  I've done some edits and updates, written ~600 words about a bajillion times and then promptly deleted them, and generally done a lot of sighing.

I've put in about 5 hours dedicated writing time today and my overall word count is up about 200 words.  For a while there it was actually down a bit.

I'll be putting in some more time this weekend, as I've been trying to do every day (and succeeding most of them), I just need to kick this funk.

The explanation is after the jump, if you're tired of hearing me talk about things other than writing, this post ends here.

*YAAAAAAAWN* I'm on vacation.

Ok, so, that was uncalled for.  It's been a tiring week, what with the new dog drama and all.

I've done some writing, not much that was "new" though (and by "new" I mean newly written or rewritten for this draft).  Mostly, I've taken the feedback from my Alpha Readers and gone over some of the other points in the draft, tweaking a few things here and there, trying to make it a little less clunky.

I've just been, ahem, dogging it lately.  The feedback has been a great help though and tomorrow night I intend to get back into some of the "new" stuff.

I also spent a fair bit of time this afternoon digging through some of my research documents that I used to world build and looking on the Tubes to fill in some of the blanks.  Nothing that will be spelled out specifically in the book, but you have to have rules.

Dog/Real Life™ stuff after the jump!

Busy Week

I didn't get anywhere near as much writing done this past week as I would have liked, but it was a good week all in all.  I've just finished another chapter of this revision, so I figured it was time for an all around update.

I got my Alpha Readers started (thank you!), saw The Dark Knight Rises, which was a fantastic end to a very well done trilogy all things considered, and celebrated my wife's birthday.

I've also uploaded a new file for my Alpha Readers to have a look at, the last batch of feedback was good and exactly the sort of information I'm looking for.  Of course, as more of the story is filled in for you guys, you'll have to help me find any promises I make that I don't keep etc.  But so far so good.

Beyond this point there's non-writing related stuff about getting a dog, it meanders a bit and probably gives more information than anyone could possibly want.  If you don't care, don't read after the jump.  Just pretend this post ends here.