A milestone

Just been putting my latest royalty statement into the spreadsheet, and it would appear that Dolphin Dreams has achieved over 3000 copies sold since it was released. This is very small beer indeed compared with the sales figures of my friends who are published with the Big 6, but it's not bad for a small press title. I am pleased -- and have an incentive to get on with the new novel, in order to see what happens to my backlist sales if I get a new title out for the first time in five years.

and first draft done

Finished the rough draft of the confession short. It's 6 kwords, which is only a minor overrun on a target of 5 kwords, at least by my standards. I can see about 200 words marked up on the way through for potential trimming, but I'm going to have do some more serious trimming if I want to send it to the market I wrote it for. On the other hand, I could quite easily expand it by another couple of thousand words without bloating it, and push it slightly more to the romantic end of erotica. That's still outside the remit of my usual markets, but I could self-publish it.

I shall let it sit for a day or two, and then look at it again with a view to editing/rewriting into two different length versions.