Crazy Excited and Celebrating

I’ve been busy this lat week, getting my next book ready to publish.  Well, today I proofread it.  I am done!  Almost.  It’s with my co-proofreader and beta-reader for final comments and editing, but that usually doesn’t mean much change.

Needless to say, today was a day to celebrate.  Now it’s time to start getting the file ready to turn into books, and start getting cover design and so on.  I’m a happy author.

What else should happen today but my own copies of my first book came back from the printer.  That’s right, actual physical proof for myself that this was not all just a dream, I am indeed a published author.  I am crazy happy and super excited.  I know, surely an author can come up with a prettier way of saying that, but I’m so excited I don’t care.  Watch me be enthusiastic.

If I’m a little quiet for the rest of the week, it’s because I’m doing pre-publication work on the novel.  Also exciting news, book two of the Forest Guardians series is entering what should be the final draft as well.  Within a month or two it’ll be ready to publish.  I’m looking forward to that book a lot.  Aili is a fun character to write for, even if she keeps taking my plots and going somewhere with them that I never saw coming.  Teenagers!