Calendar of Doom

SO!

I did my Calendar of Doom this week, trying to make sure all of my deadlines are still going to be met. Life often gets in the way of these deadlines, but they are doubly important this year because of the tight publication schedule.

For example, the release of Blood of the Witch Heir is exactly 45 days away! That’s… really not that long. Especially since I am still refining it. Reminder that this is a RE-RELEASE. The original title was Witch Born and it was put out by Double Dragon Publishing an embarrassing number of years ago.

Sadly, Double Dragon sold to a new company and I decided to get the publishing rights back to it, thinking a re-release would be super easy.

(Insert maniacal laughter here.)

Safe to say I was wrong. There’s nothing easy about this.

However, I still love the story. I love the characters and the world and want to give it a decent chance out in the wild. To do so, that means editing.

A whole lot of editing.

But what about Nora’s final book?

Nora and the Vampire Court is set to release in 170 days!

And yes, that is a VERY short amount of time for a brand new book.

It’s a panic-inducing deadline, but it is one I will keep because of the (spoiler) cliffhanger at the end of Nora and the Siren Song. I simply refuse to leave you beautiful, amazing, lovely readers hanging for longer than six months.

Rest assured, this will be released on time. I have hit the mark in the novel where I had to re-read everything already written. (Why yes, this includes books 1-3, in case you were wondering) This is so that I do not miss anything, and so that I can add things into the early parts of the book that I have learned during the drafting process.

This means that, by the end of May, I will have a completed draft for the editor and Alpha Readers.

Also, in case anyone was keeping count, I have read 15 of the 50 novels I wanted to read this year. Which means I’m behind by 2 books. But I refuse to feel bad since I literally just spent a week re-reading my own novels for Nora’s series.

I’ll catch up, I’m sure.