CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

Another busy week, getting the back-to-school tasks completed and tidying up the last of last year’s publishing schedule. What happened to January? I feel like I’ve blinked and missed it. Still, February rolls on and we must roll with it. A busy month coming up, with the back to university routine to cover and more writing to complete—I’m very much looking forward to it.   Overview New words produced: 2,800 Old words revised: 9,141 Works completed: 4 (all for inclusion in a larger work) Works revised: 0 Covers created: 0 Works published: 1 (on one platform) Works submitted: 0 Competitions Entered: 1 Bloggery: 3,542 Tier 1 Tasks SciFiNovel1A—Freeman’s Choice: added 2,282 words, formatted, covered, uploaded. Publishing Tasks Created 4 blog posts for this blog; Created 1 blog post for the C.M. Simpson Publishing blog ; Created 0 blog post for the C.M. Simpson Art and Photography blog ; Uploaded Basofi's Choosing to DriveThruFicti...

Writing and Publishing Advice http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2014/12/16/what-are-the-real-odds-of-being-a-successful-author/ http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2014/12/08/time-is-precious-are-we-investing-wisely/ http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2014/12/05/can-being-tired-make-us-better-writers/ http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/why-are-we-writers-understanding-the-why-behind-the-buy/ http://warriorwriters.wordpress.com/2014/11/27/a-writers-guide-to-surviving-the-holiday-party/ http://writeyourassoff.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/weak-words.html http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/writing-in-public-year-2-month-6-day-17/ - on the question of an ARC workshop and ARC in promotions http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/writing-in-public-year-2-month-6-day-16/ - on the value of publishing collections http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/writing-in-public-year-2-month-6-day-15/ - on 'depth' of writing, setting and so forth http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/writing-in-publi...

Well, just one new release for me. So far it's only gone to DriveThruFiction and Smashwords. Other platforms will follow: And then there were the releases to platforms that I didn't manage with the initial release last year. These included the following CreateSpace releases in large print: and these CreateSpace releases in normal print:  and these were released in PDF form to DriveThruFiction:

In between, the writing and editing and publishing madness, I actually managed to finish reading another two Alan Dean Foster novels. Now I just have to work out where to find the rest. Novels are as follows:

The general advice is that the best way to sell your current book is to write your next book. And I agree. I also follow the creed that I should finish my work, make it the best I can and so forth, and that got me thinking, because I have a lot of work to finish, and a lot of books to write, and, to be quite honest, I find balancing it all, quite difficult. I used to wonder why, when the returns were so much better, and the advantages so much greater, not everyone was ‘going indie’. Well, now I know. The short fact of the matter is that it’s not for everyone, that some people just want to write and they want someone else to take care of organising the cover, the formatting and uploading and all the administrative side of having a writing career. And I don’t blame them. I love writing, but I also love the publishing side of the writing. I love the control and the freedom to make my own schedule and all the rest of it but I wish, I very much wish I had more time to write, and I ...