Just six hours now until my talk at Daniel David Wallace's Escape the Plot Forest 2025: forest.plotsummit.com/talks/solve-...
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My favourite writers summit of this year starts in just days, and this time I'm presenting one of the talks!
It's hosted by Daniel David Wallace.
You can find out more via my affiliate link, including grabbing either a free or paid pass: forest.plotsummit.com?ac=FwaSBzDU
#booksky #writingcommunity

Making 3 tiny tweaks to Cold Heart I spied a typo in some changed text. One proofread later, 5 typos and 1 continuity error fixed, and a few thousand sentences polished even smoother!
And the cover? A teaser, thanks to David Peterson.
#ScifiLit #fantasybooks #ScienceFictionThriller #indieauthors

I just had to lift the price of most of my *print* books by a few dollars due to small increases in IngramSpark production costs. I try to make $1-$3 dollars profit on each book.
(I noticed a recent purchase where the sale *cost* me a little instead!)
#ampublisihing #indieauthor

I now have the cover art for Cold Heart (Leeth's mission: assassinate the world's first truly sentient AI, in Antarctica), which I'll share soon.
Meanwhile, here's a tiny teaser. (Art by David Peterson, which Mirella de Santana added in...)
#ScifiLit #FantasyLit #sff #Authors #Indie #SelfPub

The Smashwords mid-year sale ends in just a few days, so I thought it might be fun to read the opening line of each of my books!
#SWSale2025 #indieauthors #scifibooks #fantasybooks
(All my books are half price till the end of July... and Wild Thing remains free!)

Sometimes when you daydream weird thoughts and discover word combos that are just creepy, like... "aerodynamic spider"
or
"bug wrestler"

I thought I had until June 30 to join the annual ‪@smashwords.bsky.social‬ month long Summer/Winter Sale. (Ended June 29)
Luckily, I'm here in the future, in winter, so I sneaked in.😅
I've made all my books half price at Smashwords, for all of July.
Lots of other authors too! #SWSale2025 #Smashwords

Seven and a bit pages of tweaks and small corrections for Cold Heart, Leeth Ascending vol. 2, from my tablet proofread. [Maybe 6 typos?]
Next: apply those changes to the MS, then print it for my final proofread.
#SpecLit #SpecFic #ScifiLit #FantasyLit #sff #Authors #Indie #SelfPub #amediting

Triple whew?
4 weeks AFTER my ‘final’ polish to Cold Heart (Leeth Ascending vol. 2), proofread 2.0 (#1) turned instead into polish #3.
Now to start the final rounds of pure proofreading…
#SpecLit #SpecFic #ScifiLit #FantasyLit #sff #Authors #Indie #SelfPub #amediting

I should have been editing my new book, Cold Heart, but instead I took a couple of hours to write up a thought on the invention of language: medium.com/@luke.kendal...

Double whew.
Six weeks after completing my 1st pass changes to Cold Heart (Leeth Ascending vol. 2) following the edits by thEditors.com, I've finished my 2nd pass: the trickier changes.
Now for polishing...
#SpecLit #SpecFic #ScifiLit #FantasyLit #sff #Authors #Indie #SelfPub #amediting

I'll be attending this event. It's always packed with insightful presentations, held in a respectful atmosphere, and gives excellent value: 🙌 summit.yourwritingprocess.com #perfectyourprocess2025
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Whew!
Exactly two months after starting my changes to Cold Heart (Leeth Ascending vol. 2) following the edits by thEditors.com, I’ve completed my 1st pass.
10K words (35 pages) shorter: 147k (466pp).
Next: the trickier changes.
#SpecLit #SpecFic #ScifiLit #FantasyLit #sff #Authors #Indie #SelfPub

Wild Thing mysteriously jumped to #2 in Cyberpunk SF on Kindle today.
SF/F with strong female lead. Dark, but stays positive.
www.book2look.com/book/rhIJajQ...
(Give it a try - it's free, and I honestly think it's really good.)
#SpecLit #SpecFic #ScifiLit #FantasyLit #sff #Authors #Indie #SelfPub

The real reason for SpaceX?
NASA to Study Asteroid Loaded With $10 Quintillion Worth of Metals (in collaboration with Elon Musk. 'Study'. Uh huh.)
financialtribune.com/node/119297 via @fintribune
(I've been thinking this since Psyche was first discovered.)

Heh: been there, done that: three times for the same MS!
(Is that a shameful record? 😅)

I should be editing Cold Heart, or else Christmas shopping, but at least I've created my account here now!