C.Y. Reid

Update: Feburary, 2012

Something of a personal update, today - I wanted to bring you a post yesterday on something I feel strongly about, but it involves various stupid things I tend to do as often as the people I criticise, and I’d rather publish nothing at all than utter hypocrisy.

I’m working through the last stages of the RPG project this week, for a final deadline that is approaching at a reasonable pace. It’s quite a big thing, to see this all come together, and I’m happy that my editor seems to be content with what I’ve got down so far - just the formatting and rewrite bits and bobs from both the editor and the company who owns the IP we’re using to deal with, now.

I’m shifting the iPad-iBook project into the second half of 2012, which means no iPad until far later in the year. It’s actually a weight off my shoulders, if anything - I was constantly thinking about the cost (as the model I would get will be, and this is my estimate, over half a grand) and it was getting to me quite a bit. It’s a luxury item, sure, but I do want to get involved in iBooks, so it’s something worth thinking about.

That and I’d like to earn it.

I want to be able to buy it with the money I’ve made from my writing, and that’s why I’ll be starting an iPad 3 and PS Vita (c’mon, I’m a gamer) fund that I’ll dump book revenue into until two conditions are met:

  1. All three novels are out via self-pub.
  2. I have made enough to buy both.

This means that, realistically, I’m putting a novel out in, hmm, March? That’s a big deal, to me, and it’ll be the first time a long-form piece of fiction of mine will be in the public domain. To start with, I’m going with KDP Select, as this allows me 90 days of promotion (possibly more, actually, if I want to do a second 90) and at least five days of “it’s free” promo time. Whether I’ll do this with the other two remains to be seen - it depends how this project goes. But I’m looking forward to getting started.

The book I’ll be aiming to send out into the cold, harsh environs of reader-world in March is one I wrote during NaNoWriMo in 2010, and one I’d like to clean up, refine and get out there, as it’s an idea I like and gives me something to show people as I launch myself headlong into the ones I’ve not even started planning yet. So, here goes, I guess. Laters.

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