2018 - a brief summary

[julesjones]

2018 wasn't a lot of fun, for reasons given at length in a locked post, but which can be summarised as I spent it being not well. I'm still not well, but things are slowly getting better.

On the writing front, Loose Id closed its doors after 14 years, leaving many of my titles without a home. My titles at NineStar Press are fine and I'm not having any problems writing new material, but I have to stay off the computer as much as possible for now, which means self-publishing the out of print works won't be practical for a while.

In summary: 2018 sucked, and I am grateful to my immediate management at my day job who did their best to make it suck a little less.

Comments

[oracne]

Here's hoping new e-presses rise to attempt to fill that ecological slot.

[julesjones]

Alas, I rather suspect self-publishing is the way that slot is going. Given my personal bent (outsource the making the physical book), my hope is that more of the commercial presses will do what some have already done and spin off proper digital-first imprints along the lines of Carina as a separate arm of Harlequin/Mills&Boon with its own list rather than just ebook editions of existing lists.