I know everyone is biting at the bit to get their hands on the
second book (my editor cleverly refers to as WM18@L).
I want to tell you how much it means to me to have so many
people who have invested their time and hearts in Wilson and Max. Being a new
indie author, I’ve learned there are a lot of avenues I have to trudge through
to figure out what is working or not in this adventure called self-publishing.
Everyone has been caring, fair, patient, and totally understanding.
So I owe a fair and honest answer to the hundreds of people who peek in on the
Wilson Mooney blog every couple of days, wanting to know when the second book will
be available.
Trust me, I wish I could just have the book out tomorrow, and
let you all live in Wilson’s head for a couple of days; but if I did that, it
wouldn’t be a quality moment for you and your experience with Wilson and Max is
very important to me. Especially now
that they don’t just live in my head anymore; they don’t just belong to me anymore.
So, I want to take a moment to tell you what is happening as of right now in the physical world of
getting Wilson out to you!
**My editor is 90% done with edits to the book. She likes
what she sees and that makes me feel good. She is on her second read through
and should be done by sometime next week.
**My designer and I are working out visuals for the cover
and I think we will be able to pin it down in the next week. I still have to
get the back cover summary hammered out. But I think that shouldn’t take much.
**My biggest hurdle I keep dreading is the typesetting and
uploading. I know the process has changed since I uploaded the first book. So
here’s to hoping the process is dummy-proof for me!
**Amongst all of this, I am behind at getting a book trailer
out for WM18@L. But a great musician is letting me use one of his original
songs, for the book video! The creative process continues!
Gosh, I can’t tell you how overwhelmingly grateful I am to
everyone who has worked on Wilson. I have very talented, selfless, giving people,
who are invested in this process with me. Not to mention the readers who love
the book and keep it alive via word of mouth.
It is very important to me that people who read WM18@L still
feel the connection they had with the characters in the first book.
Oh my God, the pressure of producing a sequel is totally crazy! There are
readers who have read the book over and over again. So keeping the continuity from
the first book into the second is pretty important. Also, when I wrote the
first book I honestly didn’t know what to expect. Now I do!
So here I am, at the same spot on the Merry-Go-Round,
reaching for that elusive gold ring that seems to be so close and yet keeps
slipping out of my hand every time I reach for it. It’s a feeling of disappointment
that I can’t allow myself to embody. What I want is to snatch the ring, push my
feet down in the stirrups of the carrousel horse and thrust that ring into the
air, hollering at the top of my lungs…“I did it!” That, yes, I have a hard date
WM18@L will be available. But it seems so impossible to predict right now.
Truthfully, what it comes down to is…I don’t want to let my
readers down (there I said it). If I give a date and the book isn’t ready…how
crappy would that be? Pretty crappy! So that’s why I am keeping tight-lipped
about throwing dates out regarding WM18@L’s release date.
But, I promise you, when I feel I’m close I will post it
here on the blog, the Facebook Fan Page, which feeds it to Twitter, and on my
website.
Thank you for coming back and checking in on me! I really do
appreciate your interest and patience. And believe it or not, I truly know how
hard it is to wait when you are left—wanting more.
With Gratitude and Respect,
Gretchen
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