Lifting my head up from all the typing, outlining, thinking, and general frustration of an early draft to give you all a quick update.
I can’t yet estimate a date on Girls Wearing Black 3. I take longer to crank out a manuscript than some indie authors for the simple reason that, for me, the longer I spend on it, the better it turns out. That may seem like a bit of a truism that isn’t even worth saying, but it makes me a bit of an outlier among indie authors. I know some writers can finish a book in a draft or two, but for me, that’s when I just start to feel like the story is taking shape. My process amounts to: Write a draft, cut most of it. Write another draft, cut most of it. Write another draft….and on and on until it’s all worth keeping.
All of this is to say…my promise at the end of Book 2 of an early 2013 release for Book 3 will probably still hold. It would be awesome to get it out early and be in time for the holiday season, but I don’t see it happening.
On a completely unrelated note, I want to say hello to everyone who bought the book in iTunes or iBooks from around the world. Last month, for the first time ever (and I’ve been selling eBooks since early 2010), my sales on Apple exceeded my sales on Amazon. For most of my career as an author, there was Amazon and there was everybody else who, combined, still didn’t equal the sales of Amazon. To have someone other than Amazon be my primary mode of sale is quite a change!
Wherever you found my books, I’m glad to have you. And a special hello to those of you from Australia. Almost a third of my October sales were from the land down under, which was also a first.
As always, thanks everyone for reading!
