Five things I did at work last week

Last week, I:

  • Passed 28% of the rough human draft of Bloodfire Legacy,
  • Generated new cover art for Star Wanderers and Children of the Starry Sea,
  • Reworked the book description for Stars of Blood and Glory,
  • Wrote and scheduled an email newsletter, and
  • Published my first collection of author’s notes: Thanks for Reading!

Five things I did at work last week

This post is a day late because I sprang for the paid version of ChatGPT over the weekend, mostly to generate… er… images of my wife. For research purposes. But here are my five bullets.

Last week at work, I:

  • Wrote about 10k human words in my current WIP, Bloodfire Legacy.
  • Evaluated my AI writing in the previous draft of this WIP to figure out how to better prep for human writing.
  • Did a monthly planning session.
  • Generated a new cover mock-up for The Soulbond and the Sling with DALL-E3.
  • Launched a $2.99 ebook sale on all my books for the month of April.

Five things I did at work last week

  • I passed 10% of the revised AI draft for The Soulbond and the Sling (about 16k words).
  • I started working on Bloodfire Legacy again, making some progress on the human draft.
  • I made the covers for Thanks for Reading! my forthcoming compilation of author’s notes.
  • I wrote the book description for Thanks for Reading!
  • I ran a promotion for Genesis Earth.

It’s time for a cover reveal!

This is another great cover by James, over at GoOnWrite.com. I’m really happy with how it turned out! I’m working on the AI draft right now, but should have it done very soon. If all goes well, I’ll be publishing it either in July or August. Here is the working back cover copy:

Bloodfire Legacy (Sea Mage Cycle #5)

To save his orphaned daughter, the ghost of the greatest wizard must depend on the lowest thief.

Corin has never been more than a street rat and a petty thief. But he can also hear the voices of the dead—whether he wants to or not. Usually, the dead leave him alone after they realize he has no power to help them. But when the former court magician begins to haunt him, nothing that Corin says can convince him to go away. 

Lyra, the magician’s daughter, has been delving into the dark arts to find her father’s killers and avenge his grisly death. But the very people who killed him are grooming her for a devious purpose, and the intrigue of the court has put her in more danger than she knows. Her father is the only one who knows enough to warn her, but without Corin’s help, he is powerless to save her.

To save her, Corin must be more than merely a ghost whisperer: he must rise above his circumstances and become a man worthy of trust. But will that be enough to convince Lyra to turn back to the light before her thirst for vengeance consumes her?