My publisher has not told me when the sequel is coming out! I'm expecting them to aim for Christmas, but I don't actually know.
The current status is that the first draft of the manuscript is done. My personal revisions are almost done. I'll run it past a couple of beta readers to make sure that I don't have any dull parts and it's not wildly inappropriate for kids (Have you read everything else I write? I have to watch that part carefull.). Then it goes to my publisher, and we do the official edits.
All of these stages are fast. Most of them only take a few days. So for practical purposes, the book is done and it's about how much of a hurry Curiosity Quills is in to release it.
I hope you people like it. Keeping the same tone between books is not my specialty, but I tried to make it very definitely a Penelope Akk book.
Thank you very much, I've read I'M 1 a bunch of times and love it, sorry for pestering you so much.
ReplyDeleteI promise you, your enthusiasm does NOT upset me. It's great that people want the sequel this much!
DeleteCan't wait to read it ^_^
ReplyDeleteMy estimate is it'll take about a year to go through editing, based on other author's blogs.
ReplyDeleteSmall and large publishers are very different animals. Large publishers can take a long time to publish but its not usually editing that causes the most delay. Most of it is promotional prep, print runs, and pre-publicity time. Small publishers tend to be much faster, since they don't have large print runs/inventory, promotion or publicity concerns. They also tend to simplified editing flow.
DeleteEven faster if they are pubbing ebook or at least ebook first and then following it with paper.
I was a moderator for a professional author and publisher forum years ago, and learned a lot in the process. (second time typing this, I always forget to log in first...)
I am really hoping to see this book out ASAP. Loved the first book and cant wait to see where the characters go from here.
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