After quite a few months of focusing on my real job, and going 0 for 4 with agents on my manuscript, I decided to solicit feedback on my audiobook from listeners I hired on Upwork. I never did this the first time, because my beta “readers” were actually readers…of the...
Lemme tell you, when you’re trying to get the audio files right, each minute of recording and editing can take 20 or more. As it stands, I’ve got almost 49 minutes recorded, and that’s roughly 19% of the text that needs recording. I’m using iMovie because of its...
Since it’s been such a long time, I figured I should share some updates. Starting classes on a new campus, maintaining a research career, and doing home improvements to a new house get in the way of creative pursuits, at times. I’ve decided to start a Kickstarter...
After working with the illustrators for a few days, we’ve got a version of the Camp Gamma map that looks pretty good to me.
This is the fun part. After soliciting 4 editors’ perspectives plus a few read-throughs from my partner, I’ve now got a much better sense of what I need to do to communicate the story more clearly. The number one comment from all of these readers was that...
