Felled by Pestilence

On the seventh day I hath risen... from a viral pestilence that plagued by tonsils. I was out cold for basically the last six days. I was a curled-up incubator of viral infestation, and I lost nearly a week of my life, of myself to this monstrosity.  

But, I’m relatively sound of mind now, even though my body is still trying to catch up to that point. So, here’s a little Dawning of the Sun update. I submitted my final pass for copy edits on the final day of March. The manuscript has been handed over to an undisclosed proofreader who I pray is working quickly but ever diligently to review the basically final state of my manuscript. It’s terrifying. I don’t know if I’m happy with how it is... there are so many little things I feel like I should be improving. A million tiny oversights that some reader will inevitably point out to me and I’ll find myself pulling my hair out over once the thing is in print.  

When I spoke to my editor she said, “Don’t change too much, it’s ready.” Are you insane?! Are you out of your fucking mind?! How could it possibly be ready?! I’ve only spent the last 17 years (yes, 17) working on this story, this world, this brain spawn. At some point I need to let it go. By the time this is a physical book in your hands the story itself will be graduating high school. (I’m cringing on the inside to know it took me that long to figure all this out.) I pray to the muses, to the literary gods, that Waning of the Moon the second iteration of the Aeternum Series will not need so much mental incubation and, let’s face it, trial and error in the writing process.  

Everything is on track. Despite some setbacks with the publishing process, it does appear that my personal timeline for release will be met. The way my aggregate publisher works is that I will not be getting a release date until the book itself is complete. Once everything is essentially ready to hit the presses I’ll get a date and it will be a 3-5 day window between me finding out the date and the release date itself. It will be a fast turnaround from me screaming the date all over any social media I can access to the actual release date. This is my first book, my first time ever dealing with any sort of publisher and oh boy is all this weird and overwhelming and confusing.  

So, stay tuned to find out if this whole process will break me. If you want a couple of reels from me between posts, find me on the social medias, I’m everywhere under some version of “mekalous”.  
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Thank you for coming to my almost death bed, we appreciate your business. (I might not be as sound of mind as I thought.)