The Slowdown To End All Slowdowns

So last week I got a really strange cold and was kind of meh all week. But I did manage to do some work. In fact, for some reason I started tracking the final drafts I had for all my Remade Anew books (originally published as Remembrance) and what started as a quick skimming here and there ended up being me finishing a new edit of First Encounters (Remade Anew 1) and a new edit of Christmas Special (Remade Anew 2). I still need to finish cleaning up some structural problems that they have, but once I have those cleared up, those books will be ready for publication. Like, for real. And they’re pretty good. Well, maybe not good but hella entertaining. Like, I remembered why I wrote like 7 books in that series. It was so compelling, I finished the first edit in like 4 days, a new record for me in editing. None of my other books have had such a fast editing, even thought there really were a ton of things that had to be corrected. And Christmas Special is really cool too. It’s not as strong as First Encounters, as it has a slower pacing, but it’s pretty neat. And that’s coming from someone who never likes her own books.

Man, I’m so excited. I’ll probably have to change the covers to reflect the new series name, which I think will be the most complicated part, but at least I know that the books are pretty strong.

But the bad thing is that this is slowing down my edits of the other two series, Starfallen and SoulShattered. Like, I’m spread so thin that it’s simply too much ground to cover for me. And I haven’t written a single word on Blood Song which still needs to be completed. Hell, the outline isn’t done and it’s driving me mad. Worse still is that I’m getting to the super busy season at my job and it’s getting to be too much. I’m starting to fear that I won’t be able to publish a single book before the upcoming mercury retrograde, and hell if I’m going to publish anything during that time. I’m so mad that I simply cannot finish any of my books already. Whenever I think that they’re done, more and more stuff keeps coming up.

But at the same time, I don’t want to fall into the same mistakes that I did when I published Remembrance, where I sacrificed quality for speed and released bad books riddled with errors. I want to do things right this time. I want to publish the best books that I can, because those are good stories that I believe in. I like them so much that even if they don’t net me any good money, I still think that they should exist in the world. That they have important messages and are good experiences for those who read them.

I want to do this right.