Week 17

Gooseberry is due to be published by Seventh Rainbow in just four weeks time on the 21st of October. I’m currently dealing with the grueling editing and proofreading process to weed out as many typos as possible. Then comes the laborious task of formatting it in—not just one, but—four very different formats. A Kindle MOBI for LibraryThing, a PDF for LibraryThing, a filtered webpage for Amazon (thank god I’m conversant in html), and an rigorously (some might say slavishly) cleaned-up Word file for Smashwords, from which they make the ePub files they distribute to Apple, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, etc. In conjunction with all this, publicity needs to be generated—and considering the deadline, timing becomes crucial (and just when I feel like I’ve run back-to-back marathons).

So I’ve set up a Gooseberry Facebook Page in time for the cover reveal on October 1st.

Till next week,
Michael


Michael Gallagher’s Gooseberry is serialized in weekly installments every Friday from July 4th 2014 on Goodreads. Michael Gallagher is the author of The Bridge of Dead Things and The Scarab Heart, as well as the popular non-fiction title Why the Victorians Saw Ghosts.

Photograph: Old Furniture by John Thomson, used courtesy of the London School of Economics’ Digital Library under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 licence.

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