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I’m launching my first horror novel soon (Book 3 in a series), and I’m exhausted. Between final edits, formatting, I’m trying to gain readers and build a larger audience. 

Yes, the formatting was a nightmare for me. The pages of the numbers wouldn’t align. That’s how I write my novels, one chapter at a time. Then I tried to add all the chapters together and I didn’t understand how to use the software yet.

The book was supposed to be ready around October 16^th. Now, silly of me. I gave my final version, and within a week I kept thinking to myself “Oh F*** I have to change this line, or remove a line completely, or change this name.” Now that’s added work. And guess what? October 31st has come and gone, yet I have nothing in front of me. That’s right. No book to send to reviewers. Or actual copy in my hands to give out to anyone. 

Like I mentioned, this is my first book launch. First book I have ever published. I mean, if you would have told a younger version of me, that I would accomplish this someday, I would have never believed it. It’s something I have always wanted to do. It’s not like, I’m celebrating the fact that I am now a published author and that makes me suddenly a “distinguished member of society” or “highbrow”. 

I’m not celebrating the fact simply because, there’s so much more work that I have to do, I’ll never see the end of it. Just kidding. Well, this is Book 3. Part of a series of novels I have committed myself to writing.  

Another problem is the fact that it’s not the intended length that it was supposed to be, which is another blog post entirely. This book is roughly 100 pages length total. I’ll get into that later. 

So I’ve put aside (Thinking about the date of the book launch) Yes, I’ve decided that the more I think about it, the more stressed I will be, so, I’ve decided I’m just going to ignore the actual “Date” and continue working on the rest of the series, while I keep this blog updated daily, too. Thank you for listening.