So I’ve been lurking around this part of the forum for a while, as well as attending self-publishing seminars and picking the brains of my friends. I’ve finally decided to take the leap and self-publish a series of urban fantasy books. It’s quite a bit different from what I usually write—silly and fluffy as opposed to serious and dark.
THE (TENTATIVE) PLAN:
I’ve *gulp* set a release date of April 2015 for the first book, am ½-way through writing the second, and I hired a copyeditor to go through book 1—my scheduled spot pops up in two days. I’ve set up a tentative calendar, with the goal of releasing the second and third books June 2015 and August 2015. I’ve already finalized the covers for the first three books. I also have a manuscript with my agent at the moment…so some of this depends on how that all goes with edits and revisions.
As soon as I go through the edits for book 1, I’m going to send it to a formatter, and then offer copies for review. I started a mailing list with a small monthly prize. I’ve also been building an audience through Wattpad. The stuff I have on there is different, but I’m hoping for some crossover. When the release date gets closer, I’ll start posting sample chapters from book 1 up on Wattpad.
I also posted some of it up on WriteOn, where Shea MacLeod said it was “hilariously funny” (SQUEEEE!). I’ve just had my Goodreads profile upgraded to an official author account—and I need to figure that whole shebang out. I’m debating whether or not I should create a facebook author page. I have my personal one, which is public, and I’m still not quite sure if I should create an author one? I mostly talk about writing on my facebook page anyways.
My blogging is sporadic, and my twittering only a little less so. I bought the domain changelingwars.com, and I’m going to create a page there for the series. I do want to keep my traditional publishing stuff and my self-publishing stuff separate (hence AG Stewart for this series).
I’m hoping to earn some fun money. I’ve had some success with selling short stories, but I only ever started writing them because I wanted to achieve publication, on one level or another. I really want to be a novelist. I want to hold my book (not an anthology!) in my hands and know that I did that, cover-to-cover.
Anyways, if you’ve gotten this far, the title of book 1 is Loose Changeling, and the cover is my avatar. HERE GOES!
THE PITCH:
When Nicole catches her husband in bed with another woman, she doesn’t just eject him from the premises—she turns his mistress into a mouse.
It’s not as if she meant to. Far as she knew, she was regular-issue human. So she’s mystified (and mortified) when Kailen, Fae-for-hire, shows up on her doorstep the next day, hits on her, and then drops this bomb: she’s a Changeling, a Fae raised among mortals. The doorways between the Fae and mortal worlds have been sealed shut for a millennium, but now are opening randomly at an alarming rate, and mortals are turning up dead. Kailen’s employers believe she’s the only one who can close them.
Nicole would be happy to oblige and get her life back to normal, but she’s developed a magical block. Not only does she fail to turn her husband’s mistress back into a human, she can’t do any magic unless she’s angry—and she’s only angry enough when her husband’s in the room. Before Nicole can say “I don’t believe in fairies,” she’s jumping between the Fae and mortal worlds with her soon-to-be-ex, his mousy mistress, and the Fae bodyguard she’s increasingly attracted to, trying to figure out who’s opening the doorways and why.
And she’d better stay mad and learn how to use her powers quickly, because there’s a price on her head. Any magic a Changeling performs cannot be undone by another Fae, so the Fae have a simple rule for those like Nicole—kill on sight.
THE (TENTATIVE) PLAN:
I’ve *gulp* set a release date of April 2015 for the first book, am ½-way through writing the second, and I hired a copyeditor to go through book 1—my scheduled spot pops up in two days. I’ve set up a tentative calendar, with the goal of releasing the second and third books June 2015 and August 2015. I’ve already finalized the covers for the first three books. I also have a manuscript with my agent at the moment…so some of this depends on how that all goes with edits and revisions.
As soon as I go through the edits for book 1, I’m going to send it to a formatter, and then offer copies for review. I started a mailing list with a small monthly prize. I’ve also been building an audience through Wattpad. The stuff I have on there is different, but I’m hoping for some crossover. When the release date gets closer, I’ll start posting sample chapters from book 1 up on Wattpad.
I also posted some of it up on WriteOn, where Shea MacLeod said it was “hilariously funny” (SQUEEEE!). I’ve just had my Goodreads profile upgraded to an official author account—and I need to figure that whole shebang out. I’m debating whether or not I should create a facebook author page. I have my personal one, which is public, and I’m still not quite sure if I should create an author one? I mostly talk about writing on my facebook page anyways.
My blogging is sporadic, and my twittering only a little less so. I bought the domain changelingwars.com, and I’m going to create a page there for the series. I do want to keep my traditional publishing stuff and my self-publishing stuff separate (hence AG Stewart for this series).
I’m hoping to earn some fun money. I’ve had some success with selling short stories, but I only ever started writing them because I wanted to achieve publication, on one level or another. I really want to be a novelist. I want to hold my book (not an anthology!) in my hands and know that I did that, cover-to-cover.
Anyways, if you’ve gotten this far, the title of book 1 is Loose Changeling, and the cover is my avatar. HERE GOES!
THE PITCH:
When Nicole catches her husband in bed with another woman, she doesn’t just eject him from the premises—she turns his mistress into a mouse.
It’s not as if she meant to. Far as she knew, she was regular-issue human. So she’s mystified (and mortified) when Kailen, Fae-for-hire, shows up on her doorstep the next day, hits on her, and then drops this bomb: she’s a Changeling, a Fae raised among mortals. The doorways between the Fae and mortal worlds have been sealed shut for a millennium, but now are opening randomly at an alarming rate, and mortals are turning up dead. Kailen’s employers believe she’s the only one who can close them.
Nicole would be happy to oblige and get her life back to normal, but she’s developed a magical block. Not only does she fail to turn her husband’s mistress back into a human, she can’t do any magic unless she’s angry—and she’s only angry enough when her husband’s in the room. Before Nicole can say “I don’t believe in fairies,” she’s jumping between the Fae and mortal worlds with her soon-to-be-ex, his mousy mistress, and the Fae bodyguard she’s increasingly attracted to, trying to figure out who’s opening the doorways and why.
And she’d better stay mad and learn how to use her powers quickly, because there’s a price on her head. Any magic a Changeling performs cannot be undone by another Fae, so the Fae have a simple rule for those like Nicole—kill on sight.