goals – Meilo Zaborowski: Author

Imagine no possessions

It occurred to me that I didn’t specify a start date for writing the next book in my previous post. I’ve already written a little this week, but I haven’t been trying to hit a specific word count. Mostly just planning and preparing myself for the headspace. I will officially start writing to my daily goal next Wednesday, 6/28.

Meet me in the pit

Goal 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

My Goal: Publish by end of June
Where I planned to be: Ready to slam the publish button
Where I am: …Nervous, but ready to slam the publish button
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
I know, I know, I forgot to update last week. BUT. Keywords are done. My promos are scheduled. I’ve picked a date to publish. I’m still working on the ads I’ll be running on Facebook, but it won’t take much to finish up.

We are going LIVE next week, folks! Stay tuned.

I might be moving to Montana soon

Goal 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

My Goal: Format ebook by end of May; handle keywords & categories and publish by end of June
Where I planned to be: Finalizing ebook
Where I am: Ebook complete, working on keywords
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Keywords are a bitch, but we are almost there, folks.

Slaying it

Goal 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

My Goal: Format ebook by end of May; handle keywords & categories and publish by end of June
Where I planned to be: Chapter and scene breaks done, manuscript imported into KC, front and back matter started
Where I am: Formatting in KC, trying to figure out what I want to do with the front and back matter
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Kindle Create apparently didn’t like my author photo, and it took me a good 30 minutes to figure out how to get it to stop uploading sideways since there’s no option to rotate images. But opening it in Paint and resaving it seemed to do the trick. -shrug-

Otherwise, so far, so good.

The world: -exists-, Me:

Goal 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

My Goal: Finish final proofread/edit by end of May; format ebook, handle keywords & categories, and publish by end of June
Where I planned to be: Working on proofread
Where I am: Done with the proofread
On Target or Behind: On Target

How’s It Going:
Got a little worried the weather was gonna stop me earlier, but thankfully we’ve only been losing power for a minute or two at a time.

I decided my budget is blown enough already, and I’m running out of time, so I’m forgoing getting a final proofread from Audrey. I’ve run the manuscript through a basic grammar and spelling check through Google Docs, and parsed through Grammarly suggestions on word choice and punctuation. Then I combed through Audrey’s comments again for the formatting and punctuation fixes she sprinkled in, and checked for some of my most common “errors” (like putting an “s” at the end of toward and backward…try as I might, I just can’t take the Texan out of me.) I’m pretty confident that anything more would just be piddling, so I’m calling the proofread done.

It kind of falls somewhere between the proofread and actually formatting the ebook, but next week I’m going to finalize my chapter and scene breaks before importing the manuscript into Kindle Create. We’re getting close!