I’ve always been a procrastinator. I know that about myself… I work best under pressure, with the clock ticking and someone waiting on me to finish “the thing”. As an student, this meant staying up late writing papers the night before they were due, or studying up to the last minute. As an engineer, it […]
To Preorder or Not to Preorder?
Can I confess something to you? After writing over 300 nonfiction children’s books to deadline, I kinda don’t really like deadlines anymore. Don’t get me wrong—I see their usefulness and even their necessity. But that doesn’t mean I have to like them. In fact, since I’ve stopped writing nonfiction and started indie publishing my fiction, […]
Putting Real Life On Hold # Giveaway
I’m in the throes of a deadline again. When I turned in the last book, I took a month off. I wrote for a month. Then my editor sent my revisions on the book I just turned in. Once I finished revisions, I had to supply cover details and artwork. I finished that just in […]
Pedaling Backward by Deb Kastner
Like people in many other fields, authors must meet deadlines, whether set by editors in the world of traditional publishing or scheduled onto the calendar when indie-publishing. I am an oldest-child, deadline-oriented perfectionist. I doubt I would ever get any books written (or blog posts for that matter) if I didn’t have to meet deadlines. […]
Deadlines, decisions – and piglets?
Happy March 1! So today, I’m thinking about deadlines! Some authors thrive on them, love them to bits, find that adrenaline rush for the finish line fuels them. Some of us hate them. Either way, we almost all end up with them. Somehow, after declaring last year that 2017 would be the year of no deadlines, […]