Writing a book is a rather different process than I anticipated! I’ve started many books over the years (at least six prior unfinished books existed at one point) – but this is the first one I finished writing.
The first draft arrived like magic, almost whole in Lent of 2022, and the final draft took the next three years.
For a long time- years – I thought I could get away with avoiding marketing. That somehow the book would share itself, find its people, get itself published.
That’s not how it works.
As my husband says, himself a lifelong creator and maker of projects: You need to build the lanes, set up all the pins, and roll the ball. (I don’t bowl, not sure if I got that terminology right. You get the picture.)
There were edits and re-edits and further edits and then giant pauses, followed by major re-edits. Friends and colleagues helped and guided and supported.
And then there was the technical side:
📖 Making the print ready PDF (a full day of fiddling with Scrivener.)
🧌 Formatting the export for kindle. (Yet another day trying to see through Scrivener.)
🎤 Recording the entire book, read by me, so that I could be sure I liked how it sounded. (That took a week.)
© Registering for copyright, getting ISBNs. (An afternoon.)
📕 Uploading to KDP, getting proofs, revising (A couple of days.)
What’s next?
Right, here’s a two sentence book summary!
Apophenia Gold is a roadtrip mystery, speculative fiction, set in the modern material world and seen through a spiritual lens. There are angels and fear-demons, auras and in-between beings, chthonic monsters and the lie beasties we create ourselves.
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