Publishing my new novel

My new novel, 'The Aviators' is now available on Amazon Kindle.
I shall now start work on finalising the next novel in the series, 'Greeks Bearing Gifts'.
I shall have to advertise my book on Amazon. That looks as if it could be a stressful process.
Should I start revising the third book in the series, or should I start work on my other series, set in the present day?

Publishing a novel

My novel 'The Aviators' has been sent to Amazon, to be uploaded onto Kindle.
I have also tried to get the novel printed by Amazon in  paperback format.
That has proved to be more difficult. I have received several error messages. Nothing seems to work.

I shall just have to keep trying.
At least, it is not urgent. I will not need the paperbacks until I attend my next Science Fiction convention. The next one in my calendar, Novacon, is five months away.

Feedback and revision

In an earlier post, I explained that my short story had been accepted for publication. But my editor has now written back, saying that she would like a couple of changes. She wanted the role of one minor character to be toned down, as her presence risked overbalancing the story.
On the other hand, an almost invisible character had to be brought forward, in order to strengthen the plot. The female lead felt challenged by the minor character, her grandmother. So the grandmother had to be given more substance to explain why the female lead felt oppressed by her.
All of this turned out to be a most rewarding exercise.
I shall send the revised text off this evening. Hopefully, it will be accepted.

A new novel

Now that my first novel is ready for publishing, I have moved on to writing the next one. I actually started work on this several years ago, before putting it to one side. Re-reading it, I can see that a lot needs to be done.
I did a lot of research while I was writing the novel and, unfortunately, too much of that went into the novel. Most of it does not advance the plot and so it will have to be cut.
The female characters do not have much to say for themselves. I shall have to strengthen their roles and let them speak out more.
In the original text, I set down what the characters said, but did not explain why they said it, or their moods.  I will have to go back and add all of that.
It is all going to take longer than I first thought.

The Aviators

I haven't posted anything lately. Over the last few days I have been concentrating on completing my book, 'The Aviators'. I have now completed the final line edit. I may have missed a few errors, but I can't bring myself to go through that again.
That allow me to move on. The next task is to format the book for printing and find a cover artist.

Writing again

Right at the start of the lockdown, I decided to use this time to complete my novel. Then my laptop froze up. I tried to continue, using my Chromebook. But as everyone who has used a Chromebook will know, the word-processing software is very basic. It's acceptable for everyday work, but I wanted to complete a draft that was up to professional standards. I could not take my old laptop to a repair shop. The only option seemed to be to buy a new laptop.
One side effect of the lockdown was that the hotels I planned to visit in April and May had returned their deposits. So I had an unexpected healthy bank balance. (I would have preferred to go to the Eastercon and Satellite conventions, but there you go.)
When my new laptop arrived, it took a day to set it up. It took another day to obtain internet access. but now I am ready to go. I have the word-processing software I need to format my novel.

Short story

Back in November, I saw a facebook page from two editors requesting contributions to a short story collection on the theme of 'magical schools'. I was, at that time, writing a novel about a society of magicians so I thought I could use a theme from that novel to provide a short story.
My story, about an adolescent girl in a school for magic, was accepted for publication. The story collection will be published next month. In the meantime, the editors have published a web page.
This is the link:

https://www.superversivesf.com/fantasticschools/2020/04/02/announcing-fantastic-schools-1-2/

I hope you find it interesting.