Sometimes I focus on publicity and sometimes more on writing. It depends where I’m up to with book production. If I’m writing a first draft, that’s all I do, apart from keeping the blog going, but I’ll use posts I’ve written previously. First drafts require all my focus. I write them only when I’m inspired and that puts me on a kind of creative high where I simply can’t do anything else unless I really have to—like make dinner or sleep.
Rewriting is another area that takes a lot of focus, but I can also do other aspects of my job, like marketing or formatting, at the same time. It’s actually beneficial to have space between working on the restructuring because ideas and solutions come to me when I’m not thinking about it. Editing is the same in that respect. But, even so, when doing any of these things, my focus turns away from marketing back to writing, and that’s where I am now.
Stalking Shadows—the second book in theDiamondPeak series— has just gone to my last beta reader, and I hope to have it with my editor by the 15th of January. I’m expecting that it will be ready for publication sometime in February.
The really exciting thing for me, however, is that I finally worked out how to fix book three in the series, Demon’s Grip—it came in one of those inspired moments that unblocked my creativity and kick-started my enthusiasm. I’m now focusing on revising and editing it until it’s ready for the beta readers. So you won’t be seeing much of me on the social networks. I’ll be keeping the blogs going, answering my emails and that’s about it. Anything that isn’t really important will be shunted aside or even ignored. That’s how it has to be. I need to focus on my novels for a while.
So please understand when I don’t appear in the usual places. I’ll be back.
