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At nearly 20,000 words, Cocaine Cowboys is now 1/3rd written and on schedule.
I don't outline my stories, but just write whatever comes into my head. But I plan the hell out of the actual writing. I have to. My editor is usually booked three months in advance, so I schedule time with her ...more than six months out, with dates penciled in extending a year into the future.
This is just a four-month snippet of that schedule.
Today, I'm 66. Our dog, Milli, was born at Loveable Paws and she's almost 2 now. If you can, please donate so other dogs can find forever homes. If you can't, please share.
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Today, I'll pass the 25% mark in writing Cocaine Cowboys, the third book in my new Jesse McDermitt Tropical Adventure Series. It'll go on preorder in two weeks, on 12/1, and will be released in April.
Meanwhile, Dominica Blue is almost through formatting and final cover design. ...It's on preorder now, and the ebook and audiobook will be released in my online store a week from tomorrow, on 11/24, then on Amazon and in Kindle Unlimited on 12/1.
Our dog, Milli, was born at Loveable Paws. If you can, please donate so other dogs can find forever homes.
Don't buy. Save a life and adopt.
Preorder starts on December 1 for ebooks and audiobooks, and only my newsletter subscribers will be informed of the two-day discounted price.
You can sign up on my website.
Cocaine Cowboys will be released on April 7 to to my online store, and a week later on April 14 on Amazon, then three... months after that on Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google, and everywhere else ebooks are sold.
Nick Sullivan has the football!
Although he's not scheduled to record the Dominica Blue audiobook until Monday, I sent him the final manuscript yesterday and he may get an early start this weekend.
The Amazon release date for the ebook, audiobook, and paperback is 12/1, with the ebook ...and audiobook delivered automatically just after midnight.
My online Ship's Store release date for the ebook and audiobook is one week earlier on 11/24, with both being delivered automatically just after midnight. And for $2 less. Paperback sales will start as soon as the first order arrives.
Now, back to chapter three of Cocaine Cowboys, coming in April.
The Amazon release of the Dominca Blue eBook, the 29th in the Jesse series, is in just seven weeks.
You can also preorder the eBook AND the audiobook directly from my online store for $2 less, and you'll receive it a week early.
Dominica Blue, coming December 1.
I spent the morning creating my writing and production schedule for the next two books, which will take me through the middle of 2025.
I'll start Cocaine Cowboys tomorrow, the third book in the Young Jesse series, which will be published on March 10.
Once the audiobook is recorded in ...the last week of January, I'll start the 30th book in the primary Jesse series, which will be published on July 12, four days before I turn 66 years and 8 months old and can retire with full SS benefits.
We'll be having a release party for Jesse #30 on that day, my first release party ever, and we're working on a way to get a few of my readers to attend.
There may be a third book in 2025, but it won't be until around Christmas.
I'm slowing down, y'all. Writing, producing, and publishing four novels in 2024 has taken a toll, and I plan to spend more time with my wife, doing the things we've never been able to do while we raised our kids with both of us working hard.
I'm not quitting. I'm just taking a page from Travis McGee's playbook and taking my retirement in little chunks, only working when I have to.
So, what does Tropical Authors do with the royalties paid on our collaborative books?
Well, just now, we made a large donation to Operation Air Drop, which is flying in much needed food, water, medicine, and supplies, in private aircraft, piloted by by volunteers.
It's our fourth large... donation of the year.
You can help simply by buying and reading these books which feature individual authors' characters working together.
Start with Graceless. But go ahead an buy them all. What's left at the end of the year, we'll be taxed on, so we try to get the balance down close to zero by then.
Link in the comments.
