Well, we all survived the terror--I mean error--in the post of Team Manager CHAMP! this week that declared it 'Final.' Thanks to a quick fix by Lazeez, it was changed to 'To be continued' within an hour after I found out about it, but not before a flood of email and comments came in demanding to know what gives. We all survived and Chapter 30 posted this morning. There are still seven chapters to come.
Which leaves me the rest of the month to get everything ready for the launch of my new project on October 2. I've sent a dozen advance review copies of the first "Photo Finish" book, Full Frame, out and the first five-star review appeared on B&N's presale site this morning. I'm pretty stoked. The eBook will be available when the story launches on SOL on October 2 at all major booksellers, including Bookapy. The first chapters of Full Frame have been uploaded and queued for release. It will pre-release to my patrons on September 25.
But I'm busy working on the sequels. What a time! I decided book 2 in the series, Shutter Speed, had gotten too long. So, I cut it in half and made two books out of it with book 3 being called Exposure. Of course, you can't really just cut a book in half. I had to rewrite the new ending and then completely revamp the first five chapters of the second half, so it was really a new book and not just the second half of the old one.
I've written three more chapters of Exposure this week and expect there will be three to five more yet before I wrap that one up and start on book 4, f/stop. I'm pretty sure there will be a book 5 before I'm finished with this story arc.
I'll get to Mesquite, Nevada tomorrow, and expect to be in Las Vegas for the winter starting Thursday. Except I'm not going to just sit around Las Vegas in 95-degree heat for the next month. I'll fly up to the Seattle area on September 22 for about a month, but that time will include a flying weekend to Indianapolis for my 50-year Greyhound class reunion at UIndy.
It will be homecoming weekend, and I am reminded that I met my first wife while working on the freshman homecoming float in 1968. Good times!
As soon as I have a few minutes to spare, I have a couple more new story ideas. I just need to finish this one first.