A Super Informative Post

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Okay, now that is out of the way I have a bit of an admission to make. So there's been a slight change of plans. And yes I'm sure you're all so surprised by now because I never ever change my plans suddenly and unexpectedly and in the span of only one week. I say this all rather sarcastically, but it's fine. I'm adaptable and so too must be my plans.

But before I get into that slight change of plan, I have a HUGE announcement to make. After a week of wrestling with formatting and cover sizes and being really really grumpy my books are finally out in hardback.

Now I don't know about you, but hardback has always been my favorite format for books, they're just so sturdy and heavy and can be feasibly used as a weapon if you don't have anything else handy. I was always quite broken up over the fact that my own books couldn't be hardbacks, I considered republishing through Lulu or Ingram Spark just because they had hardback options, but before I could make up my mind on what I wanted to do, KDP finally developed a way to release hardbacks. Now unfortunately still no dust jackets yet, but I'm still pretty excited about them being in hardbacks now.

You can check them out here!

All of my books should be listed there now except for perhaps Winter Cursed which is still giving me some trouble. Now a quick note, originally I had been planning on publishing my Amar and Winter Cursed books as 8.5 by 5.5 since it was the closest size to their paperbacks (8.5 by 5.25) however that was not the default size that KDP had and I ran into so much trouble trying to convert those files to that size that I just decided you know what, screw this and that I was going to just publish all my hardbacks as 6 by 9 which was the default size. Unfortunately prior to my deciding this, A Winter Grim and Lonely published with absolutely no trouble whatsoever as a 8.5 by 5.5, and after a book is published you cannot change its size, so AWGAL is going to be about half an inch smaller than everything else on each size and does it bother me? Yeah, a little bit, but that's what it gets for being the unproblematic one. It gets to be different from the rest.

Now onto the change of plans...

I mentioned last week that I was planning on trying to plow through to the end of the Of Dreams and Nightmares Trilogy and publish ODaF earlier than next fall. Well, that's the plan that has changed. I still have relatively few ideas for ODaF and even less inspiration. I was going to try to push through it anyway, but eventually I decided that I owed Jaye and Ravven better than a half baked conclusion. So I'm going to take my time to work on that one and not try to speed write it for NaNo or anything. With that said I don't know what the heck I'm going to work on for NaNo so that is going to be fun... Hopefully I'll have decided on something by the end of the month.

In the meantime I'll be working on trying to wrap up RLtG and AToGaG.

I've also decided to pick up Season of Subterfuge and finally get around to editing that beast. Before RLtG, it was the longest book I'd ever written and I kinda skipped some parts in there because I didn't know what exactly to write *whoops* so it's definitely going to get longer as I add those scenes. With all that said, I'm optimistic. If I can finally finish editing and publish AWDAD then I can do the same for SoS.

I've missed the world of Amar and my four chaotic main characters so much, it's really so comforting to return to this story. And with SoS comes Matter of Curiosity the sequel to its sister series that takes on an Alice in Wonderland twist. MoC hasn't been able published until SoS is released because that boook is where both series start to intertwine and there's spoilers. I'm not entirely sure if I'll actually get to MoC specifically this month (it's one of the contenders to be my NaNo project this year); it's been so long since I wrote and published book one that I'm actually rereading ACSoM to help refresh my memory of everything that has happened. Depending on how long that takes I may be starting it this month and I'll definitely be brainstorming the ending of that duology.

I've also decided on my next blogging series to work on, that being the aesthetics of my stories, specifically the four stories I'm currently working on. The two from Amar and two from Ruskhazar. Pretty excited about that because I don't know about you, but I definitely like aesthetics way more than is probably heathy. This series will take me into the first week of November, hopefully by then I'll have figured out what I'm working on so I can do some NaNo themed posts then.