Next Steps with X Marks the Spot

I’m done with writing my last novel, X Marks the Spot. I have a photocopied version here on my desk, and I have to go over it to catch, las minute, any mistakes. I think I learned a lot about sub-text and other writerly things while working on it. Had I given up on it before I knew I was done, I would have probably not learned all those things and would have regretted it. I spent a long time on it, but I learned a lot too.

Now, I have to send the draft off to my self-publisher and fill out a questionnaire about it. Saturday is the day I do that. I’m also eager to get started on my new play.

I can’t say I will never write another novel. I think of ideas for them all the time. But I don’t plan on it. This one was important for me to finish. I can’t think of any others that would keep me in the game for so long. But they take so long to write and revise and so on. Plays go just as deep, but demand not nearly as much of your time.

As one indicator the past month and a half I worked constantly on editing the novel and didn’t write one blog post. Now I’m past all that and have written three posts in the past three days.

After I send it off and get it up on line, KDP will do its thing and send it to Amazon where someone can get a copy. I’ll also put it on this website with a link to Amazon so someone can get it. I’ll also start strategize to whick people I can offer it too.

My next long work is my historical biography of the Curtis String Quartet (1927-1982), at the time they retired, the longest running and at their prime the greatest American-trained string quartets. I have it written, I only need to get pictures into it. That process starts next week. I have the photos, I only have to put them in it.