I’ve been suffering for the past week, getting NO writing done, because once again I found myself falling down the rabbit hole that is updating all my fucking content.
So you can probably ignore this because I just felt like complaining.
Since it was the 5 year anniversary, I decided to kind of clean everything up a bit more thoroughly.
I touched up all the cover art, including the covers that have yet to be remade. Even though I am working to get them remade, it will still take time, several months, probably into May or June. I figured I might as well take the hour or so of effort necessary to bring the older cover art in line with the newer cover art, since it looks WAY better. This includes the entire A Warm Place series, and the Refuge covers. They’ve all been remade.
I checked over both this website and my Crystal Candy website, making sure all the links work, remaking all the banners, reading over everything and making sure there were no errors and rewording things here and there.
I updated my back matter again to further reflect the current state of affairs. I also basically remade EVERY story to republish to the Kindle for a number of reasons: updated back matter, to capitalize on the number of corrections I’ve made here and there as I’ve caught them or they’ve been pointed out to me, everything from accidental double-spaces, misspellings, factual errors, stuff like that, and also for more unity in terms of formatting.
I basically did the same thing for my paperbacks. I would like to point out not ALL the paperbacks, just the ones that have finalized cover art. For example, Paranormal Passions paperbacks haven’t been updated, same with Desire.
I double-checked all the synopsis for every single story, both on the site and on the Kindle, (and Smashwords and, through there, the other sites the handful of stories are available on), and also on the backs of the paperbacks.
I also finally got through editing My Undead Lover, so that’s up.
In terms of backlog editing, I’ve basically given up, because at some point I realized that even if I manage to find someone to help me regularly, I’ll never fucking keep up with my own output, not at this point. So now I’ve just got Exploration, Demoness III, and The Former Princess to look over, as they are the last of the stories I managed to get looked over by another person before giving up. On that note, if you’re reading any of my titles and come across any error of any kind, I would absolutely accept and appreciate it if you shot me an e-mail about that. A few people have done that and it’s been extremely appreciated and helpful.
I pulled a lot of really late nights doing this, just because I wanted so desperately to get it done and out of the fucking way, because it’s not just a huge time-suck, but also just a brain-melter. I feel goddamned braindead after doing this stuff.
Plus it means I don’t write.
Now, about Crystal Candy.
So, before you get your hopes up, I’m still keeping things quiet for right now in regards to writing Crystal Candy stuff. Sorry.
A WARM PLACE. I did go through and re-upload new covers and slightly updated versions of A Warm Place. I still like that series, and I figure I’ll say it now. I have decided to rewrite A Warm Place and re-release it as a series of novels under Misty Vixen. However, this is still a ways off. I’m not actually sure when I’ll begin doing this. I’d like to get farther along in my other works for the moment. As for specifics, it will follow Chris, be written in first person, begin sometime before the current series, and continue to some point after it, with the first series now serving as the middle. Basically, I want to recreate the style I established while writing that series, just much more fleshed out, more character development, more events, more survival stuff, etc.
MAIDENS & MAYHEM. I have opted to cancel this series. If you were reading it, I am sorry. Although I do appreciate the idea I had going, I just couldn’t bring myself to care about it. That’s almost never happened before. It was part of the reason I ultimately decided to put Crystal Candy on hiatus. So I’ve just decided to cancel it. Although I do like the characters and I do want to do some kind of fantasy-setting story, so I think I’ll, at some point, do a much more survival-based story. We’ll see.
REFUGE. I still really like this series and want to keep going with it. Given the amount of time that’s passed, I’m going to go back and re-read/edit what I’ve already written, and then continue working on it. However, it will be at a much slower pace. And given this slower pace, I’ll go ahead and edit whatever I put out before I put it out.
After taking a look through my catalog of ideas for Crystal Candy, I ended up axing most of them, because I realized that they were either quick & dirty versions of ideas I want to do elsewhere, and I should just save it for when I get to those ideas, or they were like Maidens & Mayhem: cool in theory, but not for me. For example, I axed the modern stuff, since I honestly can’t bring myself to care about it enough. I still intend to do the horror story, and I am feeling the urge to write like a caveman story, with some fantasy elements. Beyond that, who can say? I’m definitely relegating Crystal Candy to a side project that I’ll get to when I can.
That’s it really. I’m still hoping to get Demoness V out by the end of the month, with work going into finishing Kyra’s Game, and publishing the first two or three Quickies, and Lust & Adventure IV, which will become my main project after Demoness V. And then once all that shit’s done, Haven 4, full steam ahead.