I told you yesterday that this week got interrupted by a thing: here is the thing.
So my “first” novel, meaning the first novel that got published, not the first novel I wrote (oh no), was an odd little thing called Eel River. A hippie horror novel, though I’m not a horror writer (and not even that much of a hippie either).
It was published by a small publisher in 2013, as an e-book only, and…didn’t really go anywhere. (Despite such gorgeous cover art!)
And…other things happened, and didn’t happen, and the long and the short of it is, I ended up with the rights back.
So I shall be republishing it this September, through Book View Cafe, in both e-book AND print, yay!
September, yes, plenty of time to get it ready.
Even though Excellent Friend Chaz (desperance, for you LJ folks) read it over and suggested a jillion little changes and several more substantive ones; and Mark read it and had similar thoughts. Very good thoughts, both of them! Yes I was looking forward to getting to this, after my Queen & Tower rewrite was done.
However! Book View, as of course you know, has a lovely arrangement with Audible, whereby all our books become Audible books. And Eel River has long been on the “next batch” list. And, of a sudden, “next batch” became “this batch,” with a side order of “due Monday”, and–the long and the short of it is that I had to produce a ready-to-go-to-press manuscript this week.
So I did.
I made all the little tweaks and polishes that Chaz suggested, and really delved into the deeper stuff, completely reconceiving the central conflict, clarifying a major character, and…making it a lot more creepy, I think. I’m actually really happy with it now.
It’s off to the formatter now (if I told you who she is, you’d just be jealous, and/or not believe me); I wrote an updated “Author’s Note For Revised Edition”; Mark produced the cover in all the different appropriate sizes; and…I think it’s a go!
Whew. Tomorrow: back to Queen & Tower edits. No really.
And in September, you’ll get to read it–in pixels AND on paper!