I’m going to be trying a mainly Monday/Wednesday/Friday plus Caturday posting schedule.

This is mainly because people are busy. I know that I don’t have time to visit blogs every day. Even though I like all the people I have in my bloglines. Why should I clog up the pipes with more mindless blather? Especially when it’s kind of rehashing the same things over and over.

There are only so many different things I can say about writing, books, romance, sex, vampires, etc, before I’m just always repeating myself. And I don’t want to get too political cause that just pisses me off.

So we’ll see how this goes. Even just posting all my blogs one day a week, while that’s great, I still have to come up with things to talk about. And I’m increasingly feeling like “blah blah blah.” Maybe it’s hormones, maybe it’s the weather. Maybe it’s more like a communications overload and still not having fully re-charged my batteries from a few weeks ago. In a week or two I may go back to daily posting, I don’t know. If I have stuff to say that I don’t think will make you want to spork out your eyeballs.

I don’t want my blog to be an exercise in masochism for all who read it.

I finished the rough draft of Mated though I have yet to come up with a title for the anthology. I really like my wolf, Cole. And this relationship between these two characters.

I also found a really kick ass cover artist for the book.

While I designed the KEPT cover and I’m proud of it, I also know that when I go to print and I’m expecting people to shell out money that I have to keep my quality standards way up and while I can bullshit my way through it once or twice, I do not have the overall graphic design background or skills, and possibly even talent, to create what I really want.

Even in this economy where fewer people are really “blaming” people for self-publishing, it’s still important to me that I produce something of equal quality to what NY is putting out.

I’m going to do my own interior layout again. I did it on KEPT and that was a learning curve, but I now have the confidence I think to do it and I know what I’m getting myself into. And since I have to worry about so many facets of this book, doing the typesetting myself just feels like common sense to me. Because I’m too big of an anal control freak to give that job away.

Going to do peer editing and beta reading like I did with KEPT though I may have some money coming in from some other little income streams I’m building, so I may also have a professional editor take a look at it for a fee. The problem with peer editing is it’s a barter type of arrangement and it means I have to find the time to do the same for others. (Though being a crit partner improves one’s own writing so there is a benefit there.) I’m still up in the air over how I’ll get the editing accomplished. I won’t cut corners and put out an inferior book, I just don’t yet know how I’m getting from point A to point B on this book in that area. I’m not worried about it though, in a couple of months I’ll have a clearer picture.

After the anthology, next on the chopping block is SAVE MY SOUL, a book which I have to do some pretty big edits on but which I’m very excited about. It’s the first full length novel. And I love Luc, like love love him.

Then I’ve got to decide what I’m doing about podcasting and the erotica imprint. Because I want to write my pervy stuff too. I just have to write it under an identity that is less “me.” Otherwise I’ll censor myself too much worrying others will think I’m totally depraved. That short story was fairly tame in many ways for me. Otherwise, public voting round or no, I never would have been able to put it out there as Zoe.

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