Promise of a New Year
Jan. 1st, 2023 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
iolosdreamWell, here it is, January 1 of 2023. We have made it thus far.
So the good news, I have heard from my publisher/editor and we're about to do some final editing and arranging the script. So Maybe, just Maybe we will have a published book by the end of this year. Of course that means I'll have to dive into publicizing Aero Rangers I, Tunguska Terror, so people can buy it. I have never been very good at self promotion... that will be another learning process.
In the meanwhile, I've been helping a fellow author clean up their new manuscript... it looks very promising, but said author wants it Just Right. I will be digging into that script this afternoon, in hopes of finding any inelegant prose. That's a pleasant way to wind down from the stresses of the season.
And the stresses have been exceptional, with the oncology clinic having breakdowns with their radio therapy machine, which have put me behind a bit on my treatments. That's bad enough, but my younger brother in Oregon just had to choose the holiday season for a life threatening ruptured appendix, which landed him in hospital. Fortunately, he seems to be on the mend, but such things at a distance create quite a stir. He's bored to tears in the hospital, resulting in many long telephone calls to sister Barbara and to me, at least an hour and a half every day on the phone, often with a follow-up from Barbara. I am considering having a phone simply grafted to the side of my face, to make things a bit easier.
Anyway, that's my situation on the First of the New Year. I am looking forward to getting the first of the Aero Rangers complete and formatted for publication. If Tunguska Terror sells and the publisher is willing, I will get busy preparing Aero Rangers II, for publication. It's a long road, but one has to start somewhere.
Looking forward to better days. DRW/Iolo
So the good news, I have heard from my publisher/editor and we're about to do some final editing and arranging the script. So Maybe, just Maybe we will have a published book by the end of this year. Of course that means I'll have to dive into publicizing Aero Rangers I, Tunguska Terror, so people can buy it. I have never been very good at self promotion... that will be another learning process.
In the meanwhile, I've been helping a fellow author clean up their new manuscript... it looks very promising, but said author wants it Just Right. I will be digging into that script this afternoon, in hopes of finding any inelegant prose. That's a pleasant way to wind down from the stresses of the season.
And the stresses have been exceptional, with the oncology clinic having breakdowns with their radio therapy machine, which have put me behind a bit on my treatments. That's bad enough, but my younger brother in Oregon just had to choose the holiday season for a life threatening ruptured appendix, which landed him in hospital. Fortunately, he seems to be on the mend, but such things at a distance create quite a stir. He's bored to tears in the hospital, resulting in many long telephone calls to sister Barbara and to me, at least an hour and a half every day on the phone, often with a follow-up from Barbara. I am considering having a phone simply grafted to the side of my face, to make things a bit easier.
Anyway, that's my situation on the First of the New Year. I am looking forward to getting the first of the Aero Rangers complete and formatted for publication. If Tunguska Terror sells and the publisher is willing, I will get busy preparing Aero Rangers II, for publication. It's a long road, but one has to start somewhere.
Looking forward to better days. DRW/Iolo
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Date: 2023-01-18 12:16 am (UTC)