My second novel, SHADA, is now in the hands of my trusted beta-readers. As of around 6 AM CDT this morning.
I took some extra time since Sunday’s post to really polish the draft up one more time, out of respect for the time of my beta-readers. After all, why should I ask them to find the stuff I can easily find on my own, with a little extra effort?
My new editor for SHADA tells me he’ll have the novel turned around in a couple days for me, once I pass it on to him. I’ll do that after I get the feedback back from my beta readers.
As I’m set to release my second novel, and the first that has its origins in the present, and represents the beginning of an ongoing series, I’ve been contemplating my approach to this blog.
I love letting readers know what I’m working on; but the audience for my weekly efforts might not be the same as the audience for my novels. So, inspired by John Locke, I’m thinking about posting here less often, but more effectively, by directing my blog entries here directly at my readers.
For my fellow writers, I’m thinking about moving this sort of content, of interest to my fellow writers, over to my catchall blog focused on writing and reading, ScriptSuperhero.com. But I won’t do that without some warning.
What do all of you think? Would you follow my weekly ROW80 posts just as willingly at another domain, so I can dedicate my author site to the interests of my readers? I welcome your feedback.
I do something similar. For writing process/ROW80 stuff I use LJ, but by author site is at Blogger with a backup/centralized feed at WordPress with added writing craft stuff like articles and inspirations. With everything automatically tagged at Twitter I can keep everyone updated at once.
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Good luck the rest of the week!