So I Published my Book Today

If you're a friend or acquaintance, or somehow accidentally found your way into my Google Contacts list, then you've likely heard the good news.  I published my book today.  Brenden Swift and the Vulgren's Curse (Book 1).  There it is, over on the right.  Look for the cover art with the big scary claws. --------->

It's a weird feeling to publish a first book, that's about all I know right now. . .

There's elation at having completed an arduous project, a little fear that all that work may have resulted in something people will think is subpar, and a third feeling that doesn't really have a word to describe it.  It's a like an invisible burden has been removed from my back, yet a burden that I wasn't quite ready to relinquish.  There was a measure of comfort in saying, "I'm working on a book."  Now that it's out there, I'm perhaps suffering from a kind of literary post partem depression.  Depression is too serious of a word for the indescribable feeling that is slogging through my brain, but there is, strangely a sense of an indeterminate, though significant amount of loss.

I'm gearing up for a big writing year in 2012.  My goal is two shorter books by this time next year, published to the Kindle and Nook.  750 words a night, 5 to 7 days a week.  Should only take 3 or 4 months per book, but I'll need some padding, no doubt.  I learned that with the first book.

I'm happy to answer any questions about self publishing.  Drop me a line or a comment.