Scheduling the Impossible…

Scheduling Is Something We All Get Used To…

Indie writers at some level or another all get used to scheduling publishing projects. Nature of this new world and actually for me, I had so many deadlines in a year in the old traditional publishing days, I had a massive yearly schedule for writing and travel and deadlines and money flow.

In indie publishing, scheduling is just something we all do at one level or another.

And then there is the WMG Publishing schedule master, Kris.

Two major ongoing projects (Pulphouse monthly) and Holiday Spectacular (More moving parts than you can imagine) are year-long things. Plus for our books and such, we like to start promotion with Kickstarters and we have 10 campaigns scheduled for the next year, two for the ongoing projects, plus new Fey novels, Colliding series, and so on.

Plus we have a lot of rebranding to do and major mess clean-up from things that happened this last spring and that we discovered. Scheduling nightmare.

Kris is scheduling it all.

In all of this, fascinatingly enough, I have been both a help and a problem. With first the eyes and then this last year with the shoulder, Kris has had to deal with, and take care of, me. I’m back now, but that does not help in the scheduling. (grin)

You see, with my writing and publishing that I am quickly picking up speed with, I love challenges and trying the impossible. So an Impossible Project I have been thinking about trying, suddenly tonight started to get scheduled. In with all the other impossible deadlines and fun projects we do that Kris already has scheduled.

Yikes!!

I worked on my part of the Impossible Project schedule for a few hours tonight, trying to imagine this project even being possible. I would go from “can’t do that” to “that might be possible” often in the same minute.

And then back.

I can tell you this, nothing like what I am thinking about would ever be considered in the old traditional days. Those that followed Kevin J. Anderson’s major seven-volume collection Kickstarter could see that for his project. My impossible project makes Kevin’s seem mainstream.

And sorry, just going to continue to call it the “Impossible Project” until all of us, including me and mostly Kris with her special scheduling talent, think we can pull this off. As soon as that happens, and we get a few things done in the early scheduling, I will talk about it.

I can say this for sure. At some point in the not-so-distant future, this blog and this clunky old web site will suddenly shift to a modern, nifty spiffy Shopify store for me. Yes, the daily blog will remain the main feature, but wow am I excited about other stuff I will be able to do here. Including the Impossible Project.

So right now, not only is Kris doing the impossible by scheduling the stunningly complex business WMG Publishing schedules and juggling deadlines of one project with others, she has decided to try to take on scheduling the impossible.

I love her more than anything. But to be honest, this scheduling superpower she has sometimes just scares me.