I missed last week.
I know. I know.
I told myself (and you, silently, in my head) that I wouldn’t miss another post unless there was a DIRE EMERGENCY kind of situation, because how long does it take to write a few-paragraphs-long post? The answer is not very long. At all. The thing—if you’re skilled at writing totally awesome posts like I am—only takes a little bit of time. Maybe an hour. Probably less. So, how can I not find one tiny (maybe less) hour in my day to write the weekly blog, right?
I know. I planned poorly and did not underestimate the amount of energy my day-job would suck out of me because missing last week’s post is inexcusable, especially since I had this great theme about how all the hair on my head is slowly starting to betray me, and turn unicorn-silver. It was more a cathartic post for me to come to terms with the fact that I’m getting a new hair color, but I realized something even more important, something about my newest book…
Brace yourself (or don’t)—
I’m pushing back the release date of A Royal Pairing in Perish.
*GASP*
I know. I know.
I didn’t want to do it either, but I need to. I’m just not ready or even close to releasing a book next month. Because yeah, I can literally go and ‘publish’ the thing, but I really want to do this differently. I want to really try this time, and I feel leaps and bounds behind where I should be for launch-day. I’m following my gut, and it’s saying I have good intentions, but my timing is off. Way off, which leads to the inevitable question:
When am I planning to release?
Great question! I’d love to answer that, but the jury is still out, and I’m not sure when those fools are returning. I’d like to say by the end of the year (and could still be the case) but I’m just not sure. I’m taking a big step back so I can do this smart and I know you guys will support me because 1) you normally do and 2) I only hear from like, three of you, and it’s all been supportive.
Thanks for taking it so well, guys. And thanks for the initial vent on all the unicorn-silvers coming through. They used to be buried in a sea of luscious brown, but now they’re sparkling like diamond, gossamer strands. Very much on the fence about dying them.
Thoughts?
On anything?
~ Lady Caitlin
Silver can be pretty. I’m hoping that I go white like my dad and grandma, but we’ll see.
Better to push it back and be happy with the results than rush it and have to do rewrites and republishing later. There was a book I bought/read from Amazon and got no less than three messages from them over the next couple of years about how the book had been completely rewritten and republsihed (I could download the updated version free) But after the third shot it got annoying. It did need those rewrites, and the third version was so much better than the first, which read like bad fanfiction (the universe itself was amazing, clever, and well thought out, but the actual story itself was not so good) so I get why they did the rewrites, but I always felt like thy should have done those before they published it…