You know how they say that if women remembered the pain of childbirth every mother would have only one child? Writing books is like that too. The period of time after a book is written and before it is published is a lot like labor. It's painful and necessary and way too long.
Still, the work is moving along. Here's what I have left to do:
- Review every change suggested by "my" editor, who is doing a wonderful job of carefully reading each book and finding many tiny errors. Of course I am making these changes with great care so as to not introduce any new bugs.
- Finish all four book covers.
- Read through printed proof copies of all four books just in case any errors slipped through.
- Convert all four books to Kindle versions and test them (virtually) on all available Kindle formats.
- Finish all four Amazon blurbs.
- Publish all four books on Amazon.
- Update the web site with the final PDFs, new links, and ISBNs.
- Announce the release of all four books.
I would like to get all of this done by the end of October, but we'll see. Wish me luck! If you have any last-minute feedback, send it to me soon.
By the way, the reference in this title is to a blog post I wrote in 2015, My left ear. In that post I compared my left ear's persistent resistance to earrings to my possibly-ill-advised persistence in carrying out unpaid and under-appreciated work. I have an update on that situation. I stopped wearing earrings during Covid, and as a result, both earring holes had time to close up completely. By the time I started going out again, I would have had to have both ears re-pierced to wear earrings again, and it didn't seem worth the hassle. So in the end the rabble-rousing city of my left ear won their war against the invading menace and changed the course of the future for everyone. I take it as a metaphorical message of encouragement.
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