This week I learned that Brittany Pressley will be narrating the audiobook of COLD WELCOME.\u00a0\u00a0 She emailed me about characters, pronunciation of names, etc. , and I may have drowned her with information (writer of long novels.\u00a0 Not really good at the elevator pitch.)\u00a0\u00a0 I also heard from Audible’s Author Care, which has suggestions about how to publicize the audiobook…something I’d never really thought of other than saying on the website that a book had an Audiobook version from whichever company was doing that book.\u00a0\u00a0 Audible can help authors embed an excerpt audio file on their website, so that’s something new for me (and will be new to the Universes website.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ll post about it when it’s here.<\/p>\n
You’ve probably noticed (or maybe not) that the countdown to publication date is up on both the main website and the Universes website.\u00a0 And it is BIG and BOLD.\u00a0\u00a0 Karen didn’t have the file for the smaller, less bold one Ruta used, and really…this makes sure everyone can sure see it.<\/p>\n
Just when I was sure INTO THE FIRE was ready to be shipped off, and was doing the word by word, nose-to-the-trail read through,\u00a0 the one that discovers things like “stop of the stack” instead of TOP of the stack,\u00a0 there it was….another time-kink.\u00a0 Character A had gone through (for example only–not exact; true of all example numbers) 36 hours.\u00a0\u00a0 Character B actually went through the first 18 with Character A, but then their tracks diverged.\u00a0\u00a0 On B’s track, another 24 hours inserted themselves (needed to) but then B was calling A at the end of 36 in B’s next contact with A….only in B’s own (earlier) POV section, it was clear that B was having that other 24 hours of Interesting Times and could not have called at the end of 36. \u00a0 Oopsie.<\/p>\n
This meant (with prayers of gratefulness for cut\/paste block moves, and the ability to store chunks of files in another file for later) removing that phone call, correcting the bit where the A’s phone rang again (no it didn’t), making a hole in A’s timeline 24 hours later for that phone call (with wiggle room to make it a few hours later if necessary),\u00a0 splitting what had been A’s second phone call into two parts, one of which comes after B’s phone call 24 hours later, and checking all the raggedy edges of the cut and the paste to make sure all the edges exactly matched the surrounding patches.\u00a0\u00a0 (As a matter of technique, trimming and smoothing to make the parts are two different processes, done at slightly different times.)<\/p>\n
And that’s where I was last night and am still this morning.\u00a0 Realized brain was going fuzzy after 10 pm, so quit, saved *everything* in all related files.\u00a0\u00a0 After a rather rocky night I’m up, and about to make the final two transfers from partial files to the main file.\u00a0 Writing this proves the brain is alert and coherent, right?\u00a0 I hope?<\/p>\n
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