Jeanne is making good progress with recovery, from day to day, slow but steady.

She still has blurry vision so can't read for too long, but is improving.

She is getting rest, plus has a visiting nurse come in, and is getting some help with daily tasks. Overall, good news!

Yes, he calls it cycling - where you go back over your work and add/change things. The key component I believe he makes is state of mind. 

If you are making changes while in the creative mind set  that's NOT rewriting. 

However, if you go back over your work from the critical mindset than that IS rewriting and he believes doing so will hurt your writing.

I believe each writer should do what works for them.  And usually learning your writing process takes trial and error PLUS time.

Good Luck.

Wow, that's a great insight! Thanks for saying it!

I tend to write near-final first drafts, but with every writing session I do a rolling edit of last day's work and then continue onward with new material, so the whole process is a create-edit hybrid.  I also write pretty slowly (even more so lately due to medical issues).

However when the first draft is done, I set it aside for a few days, and then do a light edit mostly to add things, the takes me just a few days. So, the bulk of work happens in the first draft portion.

I posted about the promo on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, Goodreads, LinkedIn, and in my TAG series fan forum.

Oh, and I don't seem to remember or know if I am in the secret group, so Patty, please add/invite me?

CS used to offer author hard covers (no distribution), but they discontinued that some time ago (at least a year ago, I believe).

Very interesting, good to know, thanks.

Fantastic congratulations, Rosalind!

Yup, same here.

Yes! Just happened here a second ago!

Got 353 downloads on the 3rd, rank was in the 500's, excellent results, thank you Patty and everyone!

Okay, is Instagram really an option for those of us who can't afford smartphones with cameras?

Because I don't really see what I can do there with no quick ability to take pics and upload...

At least with Pinterest you go to a website and re-pin something like your book cover.  Here it looks like you have to generate all your own photos (at least if you want to do any promo).

Well, it's after midnight (EST) here, and the 30th, but still no US payment.

I did receive all the foreign payments early yesterday.

Congratulations and way to go, Jim!

I have no doubt there are many writers who can (and do) produce 4 or more GOOD novels a year.

So far, I am not one of them. :-)

For example, last year it took me a whole year to write one novel, but t it was 230,000 words and 600+ pages.

This year I wrote and released a 176,000 word novel from January to August, plus about 10,000 words of other fiction material. Currently working on my second novel for this year, which will be completed and released next year, in February.

I know my limits: 1,000 - 2,000 words a day (not counting the end-of-novel sprint week when I can do about 4,000 a day).  If I try for more than that on a regular daily basis, the quality suffers.  I get brain fog, and even if I know what to write next, I have no emotional strength to write it properly...