Christmas – Page 2 – Jaye Em Edgecliff

Taking a working break

Published on 9 December 20122 February 2013 by JayeLeave a comment

So I’ve laid aside Ready or Not for a spell while I recover from a pretty nasty flu that I’ve been fighting for the entire past week.

I’m using the time, when I’m lucid enough, to edit Love or Lust. I kind of hope to see it out before Christmas or New Year, but I’m not so sure now. There’ve been some layout issues that are bring annoying. I try to work on that even during editing because the edits themselves don’t affect things like graphics, margins, the gutter, etc.

Tedious process but one I’m no stranger to, and so is far faster than the first time I did it. Initially I will be distributing through various online retailers and CreateSpace. I hope, one day to include iBookstore and switch from CS to LSi, but as of right now CreateSpace is simply a more pragmatic choice than Lightning Source.

Pricing is still in consideration, but is likely to be at least us$5.99 for eBook and us$9.99 for print.

Lessons and discoveries

Published on 20 November 20122 February 2013 by JayeLeave a comment

It’s rather amazing to be an author. You really get to discover a lot about life, the world, Humanity, and so forth by seeing it through various different eyes, and by living so many different lives.

Take Christmas. America exports its “traditions” all over the world, corrupting things that really are old traditions. Bringing commercialism into it and all that. Here’s a fun thing though: ever thought about what Christmas might be like through the eyes of someone who only sees the commercial Hallowthangivimas trappings, but always heads across the Atlantic before mid December has come to a close?

I’ve really been learning how strange our Christmases must look to one whose frame of reference for the holiday is Italian, German, Austrian, and French (mostly Italian). In Ready or Not Salencia is staying in America for the Christmas holiday for the first time in her whole life. It’s the first time she’s seeing the things that she only actually knows from movies, television, and whatever gear up her friends’ families might engage in on the last stretch from Thanksgiving to New Year. Another first, ringing in a new year in the states, but one that’s pretty much universal for western society.

It’s a really great thing fiction. Reading it as well as writing; either way we find ourselves experiencing things, thinking things, discovering, learning, growing all because a little voice in our own or someone else started whispering little things, and then before long it has a name, and a story, and a following. Stories really are remarkably like the gods one meets delving into the fantastic Small Gods by Pratchett.

Anyhow, I wish you all bon nuit!
Love

Jaye

Ah me, but publishing is such a slow process

Published on 18 August 20122 February 2013 by JayeLeave a comment

I think it’s taking longer to edit the book than it did to write it. It hasn’t, actually, not yet anyway. Still Love or Lust is still on track to be out before Christmas, though I don’t think before Halloween. Thanksgiving, perhaps.

Ready or Not is proving interesting. Just got done writing a bit I didn’t see coming. It’s proving an interesting ride to write that one.

To note Love or Lust will absolutely be available in Trade Paperback through Amazon, as well as for Kindle, and from Barnes & Noble for their Nook the day it’s published. Apple‘s iBookstore with luck will be the same day or shortly after – but depending on various factors could take a month or two. Same goes for getting a print copy outside of Amazon.

Why? Going self-publish. The big boys are impossible, and given the girl-meets-girl nature of Now & Forever, I’d be pretty well relegated to rather niche publishers whose books aren’t normally on store shelves. Way I figure it, if I’m going to have limited distribution either way, I might as well do it myself and save myself some hassle.

Things progress

Published on 8 July 20122 February 2013 by JayeLeave a comment

Nothing much to report in the grander universe of trying to get my work out to the universe, but Ready or Not is coming along well despite various delays for researching or dealing with this monstrously horrible summer weather (‘global warming‘s a myth’?! My arse!).

In any event barring my editor getting to the end of Love or Lust and telling me I really need to rewrite it with my head on straight, or similar I feel confident in saying we should see something out there between Halloween and Christmas.

Wish me luck.

Progress continues

Published on 10 June 20122 February 2013 by JayeLeave a comment

Now & Forever is doing very well. Editor still has to reach Love or Lust in her pipeline and to do that whole vacation thing people do from time to time, but Book II is coming along nicely. For those who care it’s called Ready or Not. I hope, if it keeps its current pace, to be done with writing it by between Halloween and Christmas.

The blog, as you see, has had its look updated. I think it looks much prettier and … interesting this way. Hopefully you agree.

Finally, I’ve decide that, yes, my next project will be a superhero novel or series that I’ve been toying with thoughts of. No details or word count yet, but when I have have the free brain cycles for it that’s near the top of my to-do list.

Well, back to the pen.
Love to all.