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T-1 Days: LAUNCH! LAUNCH! LAUNCH!

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"Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers" is published.  Available.  Seen by the world.  Also, it's only $4.99 for any of the eBook forms.

You want PDF?  Got it.  ePub?  Got it.  Kindle?  Got it.  Give it a bit more time and it'll be on the Nook and in the iBookstore.

It's DONE.  Out.  Launched. 

Thanks to everyone for your support, my fantastic interviewees, my swift editor, and everyone else!

Now, spread the word, people, let's help out the cosplayers and costumers we know, or are, turn those edges, experienced, and costumes into careers!  Forward, professional geekery!

Now I'm going to take a month to market the book – then it's back to the next one(s) . . .

– Steven Savage

 

T-14 Days: Thanks, I think

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As everyone knows I go through Lulu for most of my physical books and for ePub and PDF format.  For Kindle, of course I go through Amazon.  It's how I did Fan To Pro, Convention Career Convention, and the Best-Of Books.

So I'm going to release "Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers"

So here I am, and now?  Lulu has some new ePub converters and such available for iBookstore and Nook distribution.

I should be happy.  Hell, I've loved what Smashwords did with Meatgrinder.  But . . .

Now I have a question.  Do I do the ePub myself or try their converter?

See this will make my life easy – except to see if it WILL I have to try it out, and then if it's close-but-not-quite, I have to decide how much time to put into it.

Here's somethign to remember if you're self-published; things are changing.  Rapidly.  YOU will need to keep up on them and pace yourself.

Me?  I gotta find another spare 2-3 hours to try this thing out . . .

– Steven Savage

T-24 Days: Oh, Editing

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24 Days Until Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers comes out!

So I'm blowing half this weekend editing.

The reason I do this is I find it easy to edit in one, huge lump.  I get into the "zone," I get focused, I notice things, see patterns.  Admittedly after 180+ pages I'm probably going to be hallucinating things as well and become convinced semicolons are out to get me.

This is also a tricky time as the book isn't being edited in a "normal" fashion, but I'm taking feedback on the go.  This is because, simply, I'm experimenting with how I can streamline my writing process.  There's a chance I'm going to be so horrified after this weeked I might slow down.

But knowing me?  Probably not.

– Steven Savage