Steven Savage

Well it's all ready; books, websites, etc.  Things are queued and ready to go.  Editing done.  I'll push the button tomorrow and announce everything to the world.

So what am I doing tonight?  Murder Board.

No, the Murder Board is not a weapon in a video game, but it's at term for people whose goal is to find out what's wrong with an idea.  Me, I'm a one-man Murder Board, in that I can seriously come up with many ways to figure what's wrong.

Tonight, I'm on screw-up patrol.

This is a weird time, since I should have some sense of achievement, but mostly I'm looking for last-minute problems.

But it's coming: "Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers."  Look for it tomorrow!

– Steven Savage

Well, "Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers" is edited, it's in my publishing que, and it should be fine and ready to go.  Reviewers have copies (and if you want to review, let me know).

So what's next?  Oh right – the web.

First of all, there's updating my sites for my books (Fan To Pro, Convention Career Connection, Best Of Fan To Pro).  See, my sites often have author profiles, so I need to update my work on them.  But of course, not launch them because the book isn't out yet.

Then there's the book's site.  That has to be updated – oh, but not fully complete yet, because I have to process and update a few things.

Then, finally, my site.

So I have to get all this ready and qued up, in different forms of completion.  Then I have to update them more or less all at once when the book is out.

But done yet?  No!  I have to update my LinkedIn profile.  I have to consider some Facebook pages.  I will inevitably find errors.

Then as reviews drift in, I have to link sites . . . you get the idea.

The web is an inevitable part of any book launch self-published or not.  There's a bit of effort here, needless to say.

I'm starting to think I need to outsource this a bit more . . .

– Steven Savage