In Search of The Dream Catcher - Cover Art Chosen

I am very excited about the cover art we've chosen for In Search of The Dream Catcher. It took a lot of back and forth conversation, trying to figure out which way I wanted to go, but ultimately I think the correct decision was made. We've not worked the cover together yet so we're not doing a release at the moment. We want to play with lettering and see what we want to do with it from there.

Once the cover is ready to go, we will do an official release so everyone can have a look at it. With so much work going on, sometimes it's hard to decide what to work on next. Hopefully, if all goes according to plan, all the books will be set with cover art and all editing done no later than October so we can do a real push for them before their release. While we'd been looking at a release sometime around Christmas, we are exploring options to move the release to sometime in Early December or even late November. We are going to make sure we get all the leg work done first before we set anything in stone. We don't want to rush this since it will be a massive release. We want it to be perfect. It won't be obviously, but we hope we do this the right way.

Some people have expressed concern over our releasing five books at one time, but I'm not worried about it. I've made it no secret that I am not a fan of cliffhangers where I have to wait months and in some cases years to see the resolution. By releasing all the books at one time we are avoiding that issue.

As the day of release draws closer, I am getting more and more excited. I don't know what will happen once all the books are out there. I just hope that my years of hard work will pay off for me in more ways than one.

R

Manuscript Building

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Well, I am building more than just that. I have began construction of a master document that can and probably will serve as the eReader version of the book. I know for awhile I was giving updates on the editing process and to be honest, that got a little boring. While the updates didn't come, the editing continued, slowly, but surely.

I must say the classes from last semester are paying off as I am doing all sorts of odd things with word, most of which i never really needed to do. Footers and headers are one thing, but I am doing section breaks, starting numbers from different pages, etc. I am needing to do an absolute ton on this document, and even once it's formatted, the work will still not be done. While it will soon all be added to this one document, I intend on going through the story at least two more times before I feel its ready for any sort of publication. It seems like i have read each chapter at least 20 times; probably have. Each time I go through it, I find new things i want to change and the occasional grammatical or spelling mistake. Word is only so good at looking for those issues. Sadly, it even tells me times when there is absolutely nothing wrong with a sentence, yet it still feels the need to yell at me.

Example.

I have a lot of dialog and when a character says something like "Yes?", word immediately thinks its incorrect and yells at me. Yes, I know you can choose to ignore it, but as with writing, there is always a lot of editing and each time I edit anything near that word, it warns me all over again, regardless of the ignore command.

Anyway, I am just glad to finally be putting it all together. I just want it out there already so people can read it. I could care less if they think it's awful. I spent so much time and put in so much effort that I feel it deserves to be released. Why do all that work only to have it stuck in a folder somewhere, no one ever getting a chance to read it.