It’s been a few years coming, but I’m proud to say that FINALLY, the Red Slaves trilogy is complete. Not without a bit of drama, as my newest laptop decided to crap out last night in the midst of my final editing push. Luckily, I’m an avid DropBox user, so the majority of the edits I’d done prior to that fatal “can’t find boot drive” error had already been saved to the cloud. My older, super-slow-mo laptop was able to pinch hit for me, and an all-night marathon resulted in the shiny, new story being available in Amazon, iTunes, and Kobo as of this morning, with links underway at B&N, Scribd, Overdrive, and Tolino.
(It’s also now available for reviewers for free via the Reviewer Roundup.)
This has been a several-year odyssey for me, but I’m thrilled to cross this huge task off my ROW80 to-do list.
🙂
Apart from the heavy focus on editing, I read two articles related to my writing efforts. The first was from Vox, “This is what love does to your brain” and talked about how brain structures and chemistry around love are some of the most well-developed of that system. The other was a blog post from one of my favorite authors who blogs about writing, Jami Gold, who had a guest blogger writing about realistic ways to redeem your story’s villain.
Then there was the Rolling Stone interview with Janelle Monae, on the occasion of her latest album release. She is so thoughtful on the topic of love connections and other things that inspire her, she gained a fan. On the horrifying side of the ledger, I read an article about companies in Japan that are hiring highly educated women to perform mere menial women’s tasks. In a related trend, Chinese tech start-ups are hiring “programmer motivator” ladies who are intended to help relax the developers who are doing the heavy lifting for those companies.
More in line with my career trajectory was an article on LinkedIn about Agile learning as a mindset.
With all of that, hubs and I averaged 1.8 miles of walking per day and over 9 hours of sleep.
To make up for the hard push at the computer for job search and editing, we’re going for a late-night date night to see Avengers tonight. So I caught up with the complete MCU timeline to prepare myself. I’m already guessing I’ll be wrecked by the ending. I think this week we’ll focus on catching up with The Expanse, season 3, and Lost in Space, before I consider starting on my next story. I still need to do all the print lay-outs for the three novels in my series… and hope that my laptop can be easily fixed, so there’s plenty to keep me occupied.
In the meantime, enjoy Red Slaves, completed in eBook versions, and check in with my ROW80 cohorts.
Japan hasn’t given up the idea of comfort women, I see. And China, who were so very horrified by the way their women were treated during WWII, has their own.
A bit less … defined, but the basic idea behind these articles is still a pattern of mindset. *sigh*
Congratulations on your release! And thanks for the shout out to my blog–wasn’t that I great guest post? 🙂