Susan L Markloff

How...how did we get to less than a month till book launch? It feels like just yesterday I was in Ocean City, sequestering myself to no entertainment outside of my computer and working tirelessly on the last round of major edits of The Rise of the Raidin. It doesn't feel like that long ago when I was at camp. Has it already been over a month since I was in New York, visiting friends in the Buffalo area? How is it 26 days until book 1 goes live?! How are pre-orders of the Kind

I sat down a week or so ago and drafted out a calendar of sorts for social media and blogging and all that fun stuff and now my head hurts. Coming up with content is HARD friends. On top of everything else that needs to be accomplished to publish a book, doing all this other stuff really is just like...oh goodness. Anyway, I've learned a LOT in the short time since I started this whole journey. And it made me realize that I basically will learn even more in the coming weeks a

With each of my books, I think somewhere around the halfway mark, I find myself reading through miscellaneous scenes that I've drafted out. Legitimately might have fully written chunks but I'm not at the point yet where I can put those scenes into the manuscript. And I'll read through them or through outlines of battle chapters ('cause they're time consuming and confusing to figure out), and I'll almost wail at my computer screen, "I just want it to be done." Like, can't it j