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This One Took Forever! Wolf Trek is Coming Soon, Pending Review.

3/7/2018

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Cover by Adrian Garcia
Wolf Trek is done! It's just pending review on Amazon and Smashwords.  This short pub took a long time to get done, not because I had it copy edited--which is a process that never ends--or because I had the cover designed by a friend.  (BTW, I could never do that work up above.  It looks pretty rad!)  It took forever because I couldn't end it, then revised it, and went over it so many times during the copy editing and design processes.  Then, of course, I had to wrestle with the Kindle Previewer which teaches me to be more patient, every time I spin one of these shorts out.  I hate you KDP!

So, what is next?  I am going to go over "La Bruja del Barrio Loco" one more time.  I never interviewed my friend, but plan to do so.  I also have a magical realism piece called "Rita vs the Duende" and after that, guess what?  It's time to write fresh material, not just revise what I have done.  I have a zombie one in the works.  Spinning one out a week is turning out to be a big pain, but I do hope to hit that goal.  I do want to aim for longer stories or a series of shorts.  So each book with always be at least 60 pages long in 9x6 form.  

I am still learning.  For example, my pages don't bleed all the way to the edge in print, but I get thoroughly annoyed when they cut off at odd places.  Then, yesterday after I saw the hard copies, I had the ridiculous epiphany to put page numbers in the table of contents, which I did for "Wolf Trek".  Originally, I was just going to do digital pubs, but got thrown off by the request to set up a print file by Amazon.  I figure after the fifth one I publish, I will have most of the kinks worked out and the process down. 


This morning, in between waiting for the story to be converted to print and Kindle format, I wrote more of the novel The Harvest.  I'm not crying about the fact that I didn't finish in June anymore, but I will keep on it.  The day I finish, I may throw a party.  In fact, I feel like throwing one right now. 

Keep writing, even if technology pisses you off!  #Resist

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    María J. Estrada
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    MARIA J. ESTRADA is an English college professor of Composition, Literature, and her favorite, Creative Writing. She grew up in the desert outside of Yuma, Arizona in the real Barrio de Los Locos, a barrio comprised of new Mexican immigrants and first-generation Chicanos. Drawing from this setting and experiences, she writes like a loca every minute she can—all while magically balancing her work and family obligations. She lives in Chicago’s south side with her wonderfully supportive husband, two remarkable children, and a menagerie of animals.

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  • Home
  • Mi Biografía
  • Un Blog de Writing Musings
  • Author Interviews
    • Eric Allen Yankee
    • Mehreen Ahmed
    • Steve Carr
    • Martin Eastland
    • P.S. Malcolm
    • P.C. Darkcliff
  • The Harvested Draft
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  • Poetry
  • My Patreon Page
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