I Love The Control Of My Own Work…

By Far The Best Thing About Indie Publishing…

Now that Kris and I have gotten rid of all employees, I am doing everything for myself and I am having so much fun. Today I did ten covers, mostly on my Thunder Mountain novels, branding to my name and mostly changing out the art. I also did a couple of collection covers. The hardest part, of course, is finding the art. Took many breaks because that kind of work can mess with the eyes if you are not careful.

I came back after a break and doing a Vellum on one collection and I hit a wall on the third collection cover. Just flat nothing I could find fit and my critical voice got really ramped up. So forced myself to take another break.

Plus I was not happy with the long title of the main story I picked to lead the collection. Just too much. The title was THE YARD, THE PARK, AND OTHER COLD PLACES. Good title, horrid for a collection because then the full title would be THE YARD, THE PARK, AND OTHER COLD PLACES and Nine Other Twisted Mystery Stories.

Nope, just nope.

But now I am in charge of my own work, so I switched out the title story to THE WOMAN WHO HATED HEIGHTS which is a brand new story and no issue finding cool art for that one.

This is so much fun.

Weirdly enough, I still don’t know exactly how many collections I am going to get out of this Collections Project which is inside my 75 Books Challenge. But in the next two weeks I will know and maybe even have all the collections at least put together. Getting closer.

But wow, not a chance on the planet could I have done this with employees. This had to be all me, doing every step of everything. And that is far more fun than I could have ever imagined. And after fifty plus years in this business, I can imagine a lot of things.