Firstly, while I have your attention, go vote for Disintegration over at Cover Wars! I know I’m biased, but really, there aren’t enough words for how much I LOVE this cover.
Okay, now that that’s out of the way…actually, there isn’t a ton to report from my writing world that hasn’t already been covered. Just the other day on Twitter I was lamenting how time-consuming marketing is. I’ve said it for years: writing the damn book is not the hard part, getting people to read it is the hard part. I feel like I’ve just been going nonstop lately, to the point where I haven’t written a whole lot of new words in other projects.
But! While I’m not a world-famous bestseller (yet?), at least I can say I’m getting some results. People are, in fact, reading what I’m writing, reviews are trickling in, and my sneaky ploy to include the pre-order link to The Fall of the Midnight Scorpions at the end of Disintegration is also paying off. And speaking of TFotMS, in case you haven’t seen that spectacular cover yet, take a look!
So, I’m still plugging away at…well, everything. Marketing my existing books, writing the new ones, keeping up with the day job, and being present for my family. Outside of writing, we’ve been having a crazy couple of weeks in the Landen household, but I’m hoping things will level off soon.
I did notice that this blog went untouched for almost a month. Honestly, there was a time where I was thinking of switching my entire website over to a different format, one without a blog, but for now, I’m staying put. I do like to have a place for my “writing about writing” ramblings, whenever they’re longer than a tweet or a Facebook post, and while the layout isn’t perfect, I think it’s easy enough to find the information about my published works. These days, though, I’ve been focusing on Twitter and my newsletter, so if you’re not already following me in those places, click those links!