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A twist ending

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Maybe you all remember the book cover I featured in a post a couple of weeks ago. I’m reading the book now, and so far it’s been very entertaining. The author has been advertising free pdf copies of Armageddon Bound through the 18th. Email him (tim at tmarquitz dot com) by tomorrow, and he says he’ll send you one.

And that leads me to an interesting coincidence involving my chance meeting with Tim and my editing  job at Eternal Press. Here’s the chain of events:

  • I featured Armageddon Bound here because the book’s cover caught my eye on a review blog.
  • The author was kind enough to leave a comment on my blog, and subsequently we connected on a couple of social networking sites
  • Armageddon Bound is published by Damnation Books.
  • The news broke yesterday that Damnation Books is acquiring Eternal Press, my former employer.

So there’s a twist ending to my time at Eternal Press. Dun-dun-dunnnnn. Isn’t that weird? Apparently the owner of Damnation Books is a former editor at Eternal Press. I had no idea there was a connection between the two companies before today. The coincidence is irrelevant because I finished my final assignment a few days ago, but it’s still weird. Actually, the timing makes it weirder. Of course now I’m thinking it’s a sign I shouldn’t have quit, or a sign I did the right thing, or a sign that… You know me. Though I don’t really believe coincidences like these are necessarily a sign to do something, I do think they are God’s way of saying, Pay attention! So I will.

Speaking of book covers…

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The company I edit for does videos of their monthly releases, and this month’s is out. My friend Jayden Chelsee/Tabitha Shay’s western romance is the first book you see in the video, but I didn’t work on that one.

No, both of the ones I worked on are erotica short stories, and I’ve just seen the covers for the first time. They are fantastic! Jezebel’s Article is a vampire fantasy, and Ink Me is set in a tattoo shop. I edited these at the same time, switching off (hm, reminds me of Jezebel’s Article…) and though the protagonists have similar voices, the stories are very different. If you’re into such literature, go check ‘em out!

Jezebel's Article Ink Me

Weekend happenings

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My mind is sort of a blank this morning, but I feel like connecting with the world so I’m posting anyway. I apologize in advance for any inanity which may follow.

Over the weekend a couple of my first readers got back to me with comments on my long synopsis. Their advice was right on and exactly what I needed, pointing out things I am too close to see. Really invaluable. I’m sure the rest of my readers will have just as much insight. I’ll do an in-depth report once it’s a done deal, probably by the end of the week.

While I’m waiting to finish my synopsis, I have my editing job to do. Last week I received my next two assignments from Eternal Press. To my surprise, they are both classified as erotica. Now, I’ve never edited erotica before, although I did go through a time when I thought I might be able to write some. (Not.) By the way, the link goes to my old blog because the comments somehow didn’t get imported over here on my older posts. The comments are funny.

So anyway, yeah, I’m editing erotica. So far it’s been very–ahem–interesting. It’s smashing my preconceived notions of erotic literature and bringing to light some personal attitudes which have always operated unseen. Eye-opening, in a number of ways.

On the health front, I found out toothpaste irritates my skin and is probably why my tongue always feels burny. On the other hand, the knuckle on my broken finger popped and I regained some range of motion. I hope this bodes well for having a full recovery.

I pulled all my WIP files to one location and started organizing them. Cuts, backstory, notes, different chunks of chapters, the working doc, 3 different synopses, etc. I’m a very sloppy saver, so my file names are not nearly descriptive enough to immediately know what they are, and also they are saved to two different computers and a backup hard drive. I have the same file name 10 times on 4 different documents. It’s atrocious. If anybody has any thoughts on a better way to organize and evaluate what to save and what to delete, please let me know. If nobody has a better idea, I’ll import all the files into Page Four, see how that works.

Have a great week.