CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Yesterday saw the end of the first month of a brand new year, and I have been working hard on the writer side of things. Yes, some gaming happened, too, but mostly the focus was on writing, as I have some books I'd like to see released this year. So, what did I get up to, you ask? Well, it certainly wasn't mischief...or not much of that, anyway. Writing Ghost writing took up a lot of my time, and I completed 129,690 words across multiple projects. It was a LOT, but buying a house and moving interstate late last year coupled with two week-long reactions to my covid vaccinations slowed me up some, so this took priority. Work on The Undiscovered , the third novel in the Strays of Lunar One series , recommenced very late in the month and received a full revision. Writing commences this month. Work on A Year of Practicing Poetry, the first book in my Playing with Words series commenced with a revision of what I already had and 1,427 words. Editing continued on Another 365 Days of ...

The following covers were created or tweaked in October 2015: EBook covers for all Platforms Print-on-Demand Cover EBook Cover Tweak for Draft2Digital Distribution

Here are the covers I created this month: PoD E-book Large Print PoD E-book Version E-book version Large Print PoD Large-Print PoD E-book version E-book version

 As well as writing stories, I create covers for them (and for the other writers at C.M. Simpson publishing. Here are the covers I created in April: E-book cover for 7 April 2013 release E-book cover for 7 April 2013 release PoD Cover for 7 April 2013 release E-book cover for 7 April 2013 release E-book cover for 13 April 2013 release PoD Cover for 13 April 2013 release E-book cover for Ellie Moonwater's 23 April 2013 release PoD Cover for Ellie Moonwater's 23 April 2013 release PoD Cover for 27 April 2013 release E-book cover for 27 April 2013 release E-book cover for 27 April 2013 release  

So, this week started out a little bit slower than I’d hoped, but that’s usually the way when you’re tidying up the loose ends of several tasks. Progress comes in many forms, and I’m starting to find that the writing is the easy part… but if you want to make a living off your writing, it has to be available for people to buy. Decisions, decisions… Tier 2 Goals Transcribed ChapBook15A—Dear Tiger from paper to computer. It gave me goosebumps… again. At just over 4,000 words, it’s now, or soon to be, available on Kobo, Kindle, Smashwords, iTunes, Nook and DriveThruFiction. Transcribed ChapBook14—Legacy of Dreams from paper to computer. At just over 6,000 words, it’s now, or soon to be, available on Kobo, Kindle, Smashwords, iTunes, Nook and DriveThruFiction. Backburner Goals ShortStory31—A Battle of Minds: revised, edited, formatted, covered and released. ShortStory30: revised, edited and formatted. ShortStory32: revised, edited and formatted. ShortStory33: revi...

Today, I got into a bit more cover design . Actually, I've spent all week doing cover design for my dark fantasy trilogy, and edits for DarkFantasyNovel1A. Today, I completed the cover design and second edit for DarkFantasy 1A and uploaded the first print version to CreateSpace, where it is being processed prior to one final edit and then release. The large print and e-book releases will shortly follow , and probably be out early next week... and then I'll complete the cover for, and start edits on, DarkFantasy1B. In the meantime, let me share the cover joy for DarkFantasy1A- Shadow's Rise : EBook Cover                                                AND                       Print Cover My other cover update is for Hunters of the Nile , Eleanor Maine's erotic timetravel romance se...

I’m looked at what I’d written and put together, and I re-thought my decision not to publish any of the anthology stories separately. For a long time I tossed up between publishing all or some of them separately at 99c (for pieces up to 5,000 words), $1.49 (for pieces between 5,000-10,000 words) and $1.99 (for pieces between 10,000 and 15,000 words), or just leaving them available as part of an anthology. I worried about how that might affect my readers, but, in the end, I decided to make it clear in the blurbs and on the covers of individual pieces that they could be found in an anthology and that the anthology only sold for $2.99. This way readers should be able to find the cheaper alternative. I also decided that the individual stories would all have a similar style of cover and lay-out of content to the anthologies so the link between each was easier to notice. I started out by designing the covers myself, but will go for professional covers as I can afford it. I’ve chosen the ...