Ideally I'd have been promoting Succubus Summoning 101 coming out as a book (my first actual novel!) about now. Unfortunately, what I assumed to be the simple process of converting a finished word doc into the many different ebook formats turned out to be anything but. The awesome Selena Kitt of eXcessica publishing had given all us eXcessica peeps a straightforward step-by-step guide on what needed to be done, which was great until I found out one of the pieces of software behaved very oddly on my M$ Vista laptop (I know, I know, the computer came with it and I was too lazy to change it). What went in as a lovely, nicely-formatted novel ended up looking like bloody gibbets run through an industrial saw when it was spat out the other end.
I'm really not helping myself with character names like Cέrμləa and Mamǝḵā Bēyˁṯān.
Or an insistence on using this as a chapter heading:
But hey, a first novel is like your first wedding--you want everything to be shiny and perfect. So I bashed my head against the monitor in an attempt to get it right, working with software seemingly designed for alien thought processes.
Then I came down with gastric flu and got knocked on my back for a few days, because why not, it's January 2012. Ugh.
Not the best month, as I said.
At least the worst is over. I'm not sure when exactly Succubus Summoning 101 is coming out. It's pencilled in for Feb 3rd. Watch this space.
Now, hopefully, I can get back to doing some damn writing.
That's exactly how the names looked to me on Literotica and DeviantART. I just imagined that they were unpronounceable by a human tongue and sounded out a close equivalent. :-)
ReplyDeleteYep, that's what I was aiming for. I like my demons to be a little alien. I researched some arimaic characters for Mamǝḵā Bēyˁṯān's name. It originally translated to 'White Death', although I lopped a character off to give the name a better sound. Fits her well, given what really hides behind Nurse Honey's exterior :)
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