Damn Those Epigraphs

Just got my ass handed to me by an epigraph. So as my own way of sweet revenge, I just deleted the damn thing completely from my manuscript and submitted it to Draft2Digital in less ambitious form. You're not losing anything from this, by the way. I thought at first that it would be an interesting touch to prepare readers for a pretty dark take on the Pied Piper legend (not that it needs to be darker if you've read up on it). 

And I've also been back on the sly, tweaking the book blurb for the past few days, and what we now have in this post is the final version, which I also submitted to D2D. 

Funnily enough, the final formatting and so on turned out to be as troublesome as the actual writing of this book. I found myself going back repeatedly, fixing things because I forgot to do this or that, and re-uploading the file then reviewing the final layout. Of course, I'd find something I forgot to take care of again and it was another round of shampoo and rinse. I think I spent around two hours just uploading, testing, fixing, and re-uploading until I finally got everything right.

Edits are done (yay!), hence the submission for the book's July 1 release. I was able to find the time and energy (a miracle, I tell you) throughout the week for editing work, and things wrapped up this morning. That said, I'm in dire need of a nap, which will have to wait till after all errands are done later. 

And so I have another book under my belt, and I'm looking forward to getting started on The Twilight Lover, which I've already decided to turn into a humorous ghost story. It's a good palate cleanser, if you will, after spending months writing a pretty dark book. And Compline is easily one of the darkest stories I've come up with. It also helps that I recently listened to an audio book of a funny ghost story, and that really inspired me to move forward with it. 

At any rate, I'll be doing a lot of resting and plotting for the rest of April as I plan to get going on The Twilight Lover in May. Also maybe I can work on the gallery page for Compline. I shouldn't drag my feet like I did with The Perfect Rochester, and while I'm happy with the way that page turned out, I kind of wish I did more for it. But it's no use wallowing over a gallery page.

So to get more humorous inspiration pumped through my veins, here's a great video I ran across weeks ago:

I must be doing something right on my visits to Youtube because the algorithms are filling my home page with videos on art, ghost stories, cats, and short documentaries on how things are made. Oh, and bookbinding and book restoration.