It’s been just about a month since the Kickstarter campaign to fund The Kairos Mechanism closed successfully. I have been very sporadic in my posting since then, but I’ve been hard at work, I swear. Here’s what I’ve been up to:
- Churning out pages of the book tentatively entitled Greenglass House, which is due in October and which comes out from Clarion in 2014.
- Doing final cleanups on The Kairos Mechanism to get it ready for the copyeditor.
- Meeting with the good folks at Vook about creating the digital editions of Kairos.
- Meeting with the good folks at Gumroad about selling the digital editions.
- Traveling to San Francisco for fun and meetings (which were also fun).
- Getting food poisoning the morning of the flight back to New York which continued throughout the entire flight (no, I have never been so miserable in my entire life).
- Sending Kairos to the copyeditor, the wonderful Adjua Greaves.
- Corresponding with Andrea Offermann about her beautiful cover illustration, and sending the illustration off to the designer, the wonderful Lisa Amowitz.
- Attempting not to panic at the number of emails that got buried in my inbox for the three days I was out of commission with said food poisoning.
- Attempting to placate fast-reading reader artists who want to get moving while attempting to gently hurry along those who haven’t finished reading yet.
- Writing ridiculous, multi-page to-do lists and scratching things from them far less frequently than I’m comfortable with.
- Going to Maryland to spend the Fourth of July with my family and watch Sir Oliver Patrick Lloyd watch his first parade.
Also I ran a ten-mile race with my sister and introduced Oliver to the joys of wearing pajamas like a cape. Plus today I half-cleaned my writing room. I blame my lack of getting stuff done on the room being messy.
What I haven’t managed to do is to get over my fear of setting Kairos loose in the world. But I’m getting close, thanks to the hectoring of the artists chomping at the bit and a late-night lecture from my little brother, who, on my visit to Maryland, woke me up at two in the morning when he got home from work, demanding to discuss the book in-depth despite the fact that I wanted to sleep. He claimed this was fair play because he’d started reading Kairos before bed one night and hadn’t been able to stop until he was done. He also did a lot of swearing during our discussion, explaining that if he didn’t swear he didn’t trust me to understand the depth of his feeling about things. So, all in all, high praise. He also managed to solve two lingering story issues I knew I had to tighten up before finalizing the manuscript.
So…July. Vacation’s over: it’s back into the insanity for Kate. Here we go.
