Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 320 - On the Shelf for August 2025 - Transcript
(Originally aired 2025/08/03 - listen here)
Welcome to On the Shelf for August 2025.
I have a busy month or so coming up. In about a week I’ll be heading off to the World Science Fiction Convention in Seattle. Then a couple weeks after that, I’m headed off to New Zealand for my official, if belated, retirement celebration trip.
The collected skin-singer stories are now on their way to publication! I just pushed the buttons for the ebook and POD versions at Draft2Digital a few minutes ago. (I need to set up Kindle separately, so I haven't done that quite yet.) Official release date will be August 10 (assuming I did that correctly at the website).
This is my first professional (i.e., for-sale) self-published fiction, so I've been picking up a lot of new skills and experiences along the way. I worked with a fabulous cover artist: The Illustrated Page Book Design (Sarah Waites).
Today I finished revisions on the sixth Skinsinger story. I only have the final novelette left to go. Plus several more specialized revision passes, a separate copyeditor, drawing up all the additional material, coming up with a cover, and learning book formatting. You know, the trivial stuff.
When I created a publication entry for the website and reached the field for "publication date" I realized that I have two months to get this all finished to hit my target of having it out for Worldcon. Doable, but no room for dawdling. Guess I'd better find a cover artist and copyeditor!
