75 Challenge Update…

Mid-Month Update… 47 Days To Go…

For the first time, I have figured out what each book will be in the challenge and I actually think I might publish 76 books in my 75th year. (The challenge was to publish 75 major books in my 75th year on this planet.)

I had determined a month ago that I was going to be short with only my collections. Way short, actually. So since Kris and I are in this clean-up and rebrand mode, I talked about doing my Thunder Mountain books. New covers, new interiors, new paper and hardbacks, and a large print edition. And I spent a few days working on the cover branding, found something I really liked, found a bunch of new art, and then in a very long day with a lot of breaks, I did all 14 novel covers. They are going to be a ton of work to finish everything by the 10th of November, but I can do them.

Then I started thinking about doing a Thunder Mountain relaunch as a Kickstarter next spring and figured I should add a couple of collections. So making sure I didn’t do the same thing I did with Mary Jo Assassin, (undercount my stories) I broke out the trusted spread sheet and counted my Thunder Mountain short stories. 35 of them.

Wow, that was enough for three full 10-story collections and five more stories for stretch goals in the Kickstarter. Cool!

So I spent the afternoon and into the evening putting the collections together, and then with the new branding, I did three covers.

So tonight, I counted how many collections I had left to finish, added in the 14 Thunder Mountain relaunch novels, and the three brand new Thunder Mountain collections and it comes to 76 books. Now I am excited.

So on the 10th, with 30 days to go, I will put up the big image of how many I have done. But for tonight, here are the new covers for the brand new Thunder Mountain collections that will be in a Kickstarter next spring.