By productive I mean, I'm further along in the manuscript for the second Detective Miller book and I've been doing some work on my website. I hope May has been treating you all better than it has me. I got Covid the week before last—thanks to my sister's husband—so I've been in isolation for the last two weeks. It was a mild case and felt more like a head cold, but it left me super tired. Last Saturday, all I did was sleep and it was glorious.
Since I work from home, I kept logging into work even though my work was a tad bit questionable lol. I've got a lab test scheduled tomorrow to make sure I'm in the free and clear. Took a home test yesterday, and it said I still had it, which is bananas and why I don't trust the at home kits. But if you're in the U.S., the government is offering more home tests via the USPS since cases are going up, and please do everything you can to keep yourselves an your families safe.
Now that I've got that bit of life drudgery out of the way, let's talk WIPs. The second book of the Detective Miller series titled, Grisly Politics, is coming along well. Fingers crossed that I have it finished by the end of June. I had outlined a good chunk of it, but I've come to realize I've put a lot of focus on Dax and Eliza's relationship, which is fair considering their relationship had just begun at the end of Murderous Profession, however, the murder plot needs some work so I'm pantsing that part. Editing this one is going to be fun (he said dryly). I'm going to have to gut some parts and add in some missing parts to make it all come together, but luckily I'm going to take breather from it for a month or two before I do that.
I have hope to have volume 1 of Adventures of Swift out later this year if I continue my hard work on Grisly Politics. I've been talking about this story for so long, I'm sure some of you are anxious to read it. What's wild is that it has been done for the longest time, but I haven't gotten to edit it because I was so focused on The Last Pureblood series, but unshackling myself from that opened me up a bit. Have I discussed Adventures of Swift? Like what it's about? I did! It's buried in this post from August 2019, but I'll just quote it from here.
The Adventures of Swift is a superhero serial with some fantasy elements. It follows Isabella Delgado, who is the vigilante known as Swift who protects the city of Whitevale from crime. When a jewel thief comes to the city, with some high-powered gadgets, Swift's life gets more interesting, and so does Isabella's, but her interesting comes in the form of the stunningly attractive Ainsley Breckenridge. How Isabella will balance Whitevale's newest villain and a new love interest who happens to be her boss's boss's ex-wife...
The end trails off into an unfulfilled idea, but I think once I finish Grisly Politics I'm going to do some character introductions for AoS, maybe get some art commissioned, and post it up on my website.
Speaking of the website, I'm doing some work on it. I've enabled the Wix system blog and I'm turning it into the place where I'll post my serials, short stories, and what not. There will be paid posts so this does mean you'll have to sign up for my website in order to read them. You can even subscribe to leave comments on posts. All sign-ups will be manually approved to reduce spam. Since I'm a lowest on the totem pole author, I'm not expecting high volume, so there will be quick turn around on approval. I will provide more on the sign-up process and such once I finish everything.
By doing my subscriber service this way to I'm cutting out the middle man. I won't have to pay a third-party like Patreon or Gumroad since it's a feature already provided to me through Wix. There's going to be 4 subscriber tiers, but I have no plan to get rid of my supporter corner because I want people to have options. If you subscribe monthly great! If you decide to do a one-time tip as a "hey, you're doing a bang up job" also great! I accept support and kudos in all forms. Even Twitter shout-outs lol.
I'm hoping to have that section of the site rolled out by the end of the year, if I don't second guess myself about it.
Through the month of June I'll be running a Pride sale. Each book will get a spotlight on the homepage of my website for a week during the month, so look forward to that. Sign up for my newsletter so you can get a reminder about it.
Other than that, you guys actually got a healthy blog post this month. Quite proud of myself. Again, stay safe and do everything to keep yourself healthy. And as usual, please remember to rate/review the books you read, especially the ones from indies and self-pubbed and small-press authors.
Until next time...
DJ Small
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