I’ve had a chat with my editor at HarperCollins, and we’ve established a few dates for when things are happening. Thankfully, they fit in pretty neatly with the way I wanted to do things, so yay me!
So, here’s my plan for what I’ll be doing until the beginning of February, at least. From now until the end of November, I have two tasks – one is to polish and submit a short story for an anthology, the other is to re-write as much of Chance and Reward (book three) as I can (so far, prologue and the first three chapters are done).
December 1 to 20, I have another two tasks – one is to re-work Freedom to Be (book two) according to the thoughts of my beta readers, and get another short for another anthology polished and submitted.
December 21, I’ll have the edits for Love in Control (book one) in my hot little hands. I will be working on those edits from then until the middle of January (or as soon as I get it done). Yep, no Christmas break for this little red duck. Once Love in Control is back at the publishers, I’ll have one last crack at Freedom to Be in order to meet its initial deadline of February 1. For at least two weeks of this period, I’ll be at Berry with my fellow Fantasy Writers on Retreat (FWOR) group, so hopefully they’ll help diffuse the worst of the insanity.
After which, I think I’ll collapse for a day or two, catch my breath and then start furiously back onto Chance and Reward, which is due at the publishers in June. And in between that, there will be proofing Love in Control, and structural edits on Freedom to Be.
Heaven help me if I come across an anthology I want to be in in that time. And could someone please tell Battle for Odana to just stay in it’s box? I’ll get to it later next year.