I don’t think I’m alone in that! The ladies of the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood are interviewing me today, so come join the chat about romance, fantasy, and the stories that influenced our young minds. :) http://www.rubyslipperedsisterhood.com/index.php/spotlight-on-cate-rowan.
Woohoo, I’m nearly finished formatting the print version of Kismet’s Kiss! I hope to have it up in a couple of weeks, and it’s looking excellent that I’ll be able to sell it for an amazing $7.99.
I’ve done the formatting in Microsoft Word, thanks in part to the guidance of Perfect Pages, but I’m also drooling over an Adobe InDesign CS5 offering at eBay. InDesign is the industry standard for page layout. I’m a perfectionist and want everything to be just right, and I naturally want all the right tools. (Sadly, the particular tool of InDesign would cost almost $400–still a bargain, since it’s almost $700 from my drug dealer, Amazon, but still beyond what I’m willing to pay right now.)
Either way, though, spending time perfecting things is a problem of mine. If I put all my time into fixing what I’ve already done, when do I have time to create new things–and how much more time will it take to perfect them and get them to market?
I’m the kind of person who will spend a day (or a week) tweaking something from 99.9% to 99.91% perfection. Is that a good use of my time? Probably not, since 100% perfection isn’t attainable anyway. (I know that intellectually, but getting myself to act on it still takes some effort…)
And not only do I lose time I could use to create, I also lose time I could invest in introducing people to my books. (But I want my books to be perfect when people read them, the Inner Perfectionist whines.) *headdesk*
Well, at least the new cover will be gorgeous, thanks to Robin Ludwig. :) I look forward to sharing it.
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I saw the announcement for National Blog Jog Day and thought, “What the heck, sounds like fun!” So I joined the circle. (It feels like when the Internet was new and going from link to link was a random walk through the world. Well, okay, it’s still kind of like that, just a much larger walk these days, LOL.)
To my new visitors, thank you for stopping by! I’m an author of fantasy romance and I’m waving hello from my home in the Sierra Nevada mountains (currently blanketed with fresh snow). I hope you enjoy my website. When you’re finished exploring, jog on over to the next site in the circle, ACPI, Academy for Coaching Parents International. If you want to see a different blog in the jog, go to http://blogjogday.blogspot.com.
Thanks for visiting!
In honor of Veteran’s Day, I’ve offered Kismet’s Kiss to Operation eBook Drop, a wonderful resource that allows troops deployed overseas to read ebooks for free. Author friends, please consider doing the same with your books to help those who serve: http://bit.ly/c4gOTJ. If you don’t have a book at Smashwords, talk to your publisher about alternatives for donation.
Today the founder of OeBD, a veteran himself, lost his father, who had served in WWII. My husband, father, and father-in-law all served. I mourn some of the decisions made by politicians in the last decade, but I still offer profound thanks to all those over the years who have risked their lives for the rest of us.
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