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http://www.amazon.com/Admiral-Invincible-Spineward-Sectors-Novel-ebook/dp/B00SNN9ZWK/ref=sr_1_23?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1422046364&sr=1-23

I just self-published book 7 of the Spineward Sectors Series on amazon.  Another one bites the dust!




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The first time or three can be rough.  But after you get going it gets easier.  Still a bit nerve wracking but definitely more doable.  But I totally agree, Never give up, never surrender.

Writing your first book is a lot like ridding a bike.  Do it once and you can do it again.  Much like running your first mile, its still hard the second time you do it but  for all of that much more doable.  You've done it, you know you can do it, there's no more doubt about that.

Just keep after it everybody.  My advice is to write the 40 (40 books).  According to my calculations if we can just do that we should be able to retire down to 1-2 books a year just working to keep the series fresh enough that we can live off the residual.  Hahahahahha.



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Sounds like a lot of work but way to go Meg!  Your really rocking it on.  The long odessy of publishing trials is interesting but I'm really glad I don't have to go through it all, sounds far too hectic for an A-to-B kind of guy like me 

As for the near perfect work ethic... I won't laugh out loud promise,    I went more than a month and a half over deadline on my latest book here.  I've been trying to shoot for 5-6 books in 2014 and only got the 4-5.  That's cause of book finished in dec of 2013 rough draft and final version was up for sale in january so its a kind of sort of counted for this year type of book.

On the editing my brother and my host of beta readers over at pacificcrestpublishing.com are the ones to thank.  I will take the 'continually active creative mind' compliment though!  Like a lot of authors ideas have never been my problem.  Dedication to the grinding, no fun, this is too much like work, task of actually writing it out is more my style.  But like they say in the Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, grinding is life!

Keep after it Meg and vis-a-vis the family that keeps forgetting you've written a book or sold a book, let me just say that after a dozen titles out on amazon my 'wife' still hasn't read a single one.  But she has a whole shelf full of romance novels that she's only aquired since I started writing.  Sometimes I think to get her to read anything I've written I'd need to stop and switch genres and write a romance novel to get her to read my writing.  She's been promising since 2012 to read my first book.  I even wrote a fantasy series staring a female hero and still no joy.

On the other hand she did take me out to see the 3rd Hobbit movie last night so there is that.




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Its a great thread but its been pretty slow lately.  We used to have a lot of people posting their new word counts but its faded away a bit.  And with me on a 'just completed a book' cool down period, there's not a whole lot of action.


Good to see you here Farmerbob1



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I hear you Snowleopard, I almost lost an entire manuscript. Well 80%, because my computer crashed and I hadn't backed it up since like 20k words.

I'd just plain forgotten and when I tried to go and get some of the files I'd saved on yahoo that were like 60% through the book, the mail program kept having an error, said it was a bad file type for them.  I was just about at wits end until I managed to get my hard drive hooked up to something other than my dead lap top and retrieved the file.

The relief was palpable.  So yeah it doesn't matter why, just save your work!  I was in a funk for days until the IT guys finally managed to get me back that file.  Months worth of work, yeeee





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