Tao Wong

Sort of Update

Added 2019-10-18 23:56:00 +0000 UTC

Frustrating few days, mostly doing admin and working out plans for the future. I've got a lot of admin stuff that needs doing, including transferring everything over to the company, getting all the paperwork needed done, reissuing all the books with new ISBNs. I've got a bunch of plans that need to be put on hold because I'm not interested in getting all that work done and then redoing it again.

Among things on hold:

- moving all my books out of Amazon expanded distribution to Ingram Spark so that it's got wider reach (and I earn more than $1)

- publishing hardcover editions for all my books

- publishing a large print edition for my books

- hiring someone to help with all this admin and some other marketing plans.

In the meantime, I still have to do publishing, so:

- System Apocalypse Issue 2 for the comic is nearly done. I screwed up and forgot to get the ISBNs sorted, so I need 1 change updated. Then it'll be ready for submission. I won't bother submitting it anywhere but Comixology / Amazon & the usual ebook sites. I figured out how to submit issue 1 too to a bunch in an automated fashion, so that'll be my next project. But, the smaller comic sites will be skipped.

- Short Story Anthology is pretty much ready to go. The pre-order is out for the ebook. I can't do pre-orders for paperback, so I'll submit it after the weekend or so, so that there's not a HUGE gap in-between

- Still waiting to hear about the audiobook format for that. I'm hoping something happens soon, but this could get... complicated. On the other hand, I'll at least know if it sells well if it takes too long before I commit to the audiobook.

- The Rebel Star pre-order is up. I don't have files back from editor, but since it's for Dec 1, I think I'm good.

- And Nick's recording book 6, so I'm listening to his recordings.

And that's about it really. All this admin and lack of proper sleep means the Djinn's Wish has barely had a thousand words added to it in the last few days. *sighs* Here's hoping next week will be a much better day.