Waiting Pains

I am still waiting for my copy edits! I’m pulling out my hair over this. I want them, I need them! I want to get this harrowing process underway!! I am desperately hoping that this delay is because my editor is going through my work with a fine-toothed comb rather than just leaving it in her to-do pile. (Due to the way that my aggregate publisher operates I do not have direct contact with her so I can’t even ask!)  

It’s not like I’ve just been sitting twiddling my thumbs doing nothing... I have been doing other stuff... and things. I have been working on the first draft of the Aeternum Series Book Two. It’s closing in on the final scenes. I’m hoping that the muses will smile on me until the final punctuation, but likely those fickle little... [insert curse word of your choice] will abandon me at the worst possible time and the manuscript will just hang over my head for a long time before they return.  

I’ve also been working on my “social media presence” ugh. I feel gross just typing it... but I’m trying to make “engaging posts” and trying to reach out to book influencer type humans that might want an advanced reader copy (date TBD) to post something about my little book. If you’re one of those, please contact me!  

I’ve also been reaching out to all-grown-up authors with books out in the world to see if they would be willing to write a blurb for my cover! So far it’s a resounding silence... and a few “too busy for that, good luck though.” Well... I can’t win them all right? I would honestly be happy with just one author that would agree to do such a thing. But this whole process has taught me that if you want something done, likely you’re going to have to do it yourself. Although that may not apply here seeing as how I can’t write a blurb for my own cover... or can I? No, no. That would just be all kinds of self-indulgent and weird.  
I’m also pretty excited that my other half has bought me a brand-new laptop that converts to a tablet so that I can do pen edits without printing 200 pages and basically contributing to mass deforestation.  
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So there’s a little update on the goings on in my written worlds. If you don’t already, please follow me on the social medias and possibly give me some insights into how to get noticed. I’m like a child tugging on the internet's shirt trying to get it to look at me... and it’s far too busy with its internetting to bother.