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“Kept” Self-Publishing Update #4

at the trails on Jacinto

Actually a shot from my old house in Palm Springs at dawn

this was from an exhibit at the PS Modernism Show

Top of the Tram observation area

The desert, looking toward San Gorgonio Pass

When you self-publish, you do all the marketing yourself, or you hire someone to do it. Since I’m in no position to hire anyone, I do it myself. I think my background in public relations helps with that – at least in the strategy department, I usually know what’s required. Having the energy to actually put all those things together is another thing entirely!

But we persist, because we must. So, last week I didn’t get around to a blog post because I was out in Palm Springs (2 days, though I mostly got it done in 1) taking pictures and video. Why? Because that’s where “Kept” is set. I’ll use the images in the social media campaign for the book, to illustrate blog posts here, but also Facebook, Twitter, and the book website pages .

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As for the finished text itself, I’m going through it one more time, reading it aloud to myself in the edit. This book, this genre, it’s the type of thing that just should flow. So I know if I get tongue tied, or say words that aren’t there, there may be a good reason to make the text reflect that. Does that make sense?

I hope so! Anyway, attached are a couple of photos I shot last week. Palm Springs, baby.

Self-Publishing Update #3 KEPT

OK, so that’s the computer in my office, where I write. And up on the screen is the newly copyedited version of my novel (soon to be published!) Kept.

The copyeditor uses the “track changes” function in Word to suggest corrections or changes to me which I then have to either accept or deny. She’s a marvelous editor; I usually end up accepting all her suggestions because, quite frankly, she makes me a much better writer.

So that is the process for this week (and likely next): Get a new draft incorporating changes. Will that be ready to be published? Probably not quite, but closer.
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Tasks for this week include re-calculating the budget for this project, and thinking about cover concepts. Provocative, that’s my guide word.

In the meantime I’m also working on the marketing plan for this book, trying to time the launch (several months it looks like), while also working on plot details for the sequel to Benediction, which is my next project after Kept.

Self-publishing Update #1 – “Kept”

“Kept,” my upcoming novel, has a first draft in the bag. Or, should I say, in the binder — which is where I put it after I had it printed out.

The very first thing I do with drafts of completed works is read through them (making minimal marks on the manuscript, hard for someone who’s been an editor) to see if the work makes sense. As in, is it coherent? Does it have a beginning, a middle, a climax and a denouement? Because what would be more ghastly, really, that not making sense? Not much I can think of, at least in this realm.

So for you, dear person interested in the steps to self-publishing, this it the first step in editing. The read through. By the way, here is the logline I came up with for “Kept,” which I originally wrote as a spec screenplay:

“Kept” is a desert neo-noir about Jorge, a young illegal immigrant who becomes a target in a deadly real estate scam and must learn to survive a twisted world of double crosses and deception.

which, I’ll admit, only hints at the story but does give you the name of the major character, tells you where it’s set and that it involves crime and real estate. The point of that exercise is for interested parties (producers, actors, etc.) to say “tell me more” or “not for me.” For the novel, a small synopsis paragraph will be better, though I’m not quite at the marketing materials stage yet.

My next task in self-editing is to go through the manuscript editing for plot. Like I said, the read-though indicated coherence, but there are tweaks necessary and desirable. I’ll give you an update once I’m there and let you know what the next step will be.

Do you like this cover concept? (The image of the guy near the windmills?) I wish I owned it, but I may re-create it.

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