That’s it. Officially, I am finished the last, final draft of edits of my next novel, A Desperate Path Through the Stars. I’ve begun converting it into a proper ebook, with metadata and… things… like a cover… and… keywords… you know, all the digital stuff that has to happen to convert my Word document into an actual book that you can all get your hands on!
Woo!
I’ve asked two people to do a final beta read for me, just as a final effort to catch the last typos (of which I hope there are none!), and then I’ll publish it through Amazon (which usually takes a few days). Oh, and I’m grabbing an ISBN for it because of… reasons? I don’t actually know why my books need those, but the Government of Canada offers them for free, so I’m happy to nab one (or 10, because that’s what they make them available as).
Still, it feels surreal. The last time I published a book was 2024. I had to re-learn a bunch of the stuff to do with HTML and Calibre and all that, but it came back pretty quickly. I’m proud of this book… I hope it does well.
Tomorrow I have to decide on an advertising budget for it… bleh… but I want people to read it, and that requires getting people to know about it. Fingers crossed it sells well!
But I am excited! Almost done!