Ohlen's Arrow enters a revision stage

During the last week of May I published Ohlen's Arrow to Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Since then, I have received some very valuable feedback from a professional source that moves me to take the book down off the e-shelves and give it another round of revisions before making it available for sale.

The message was, it's a great start, especially for a first-time author, but it still needs a bit more work before it truly has a chance to stand at the professional level.

I'd rather get the book done right than simply get it done, so I made the painful choice to temporarily remove it from sale and spend the time and effort to make it even better.

If you have purchased the first edition, please feel free to contact me directly. I will be happy to gift you a copy of the revised edition when it becomes available.

Final Assembly!

The cover design and world map have been delivered to me from the designer, Kristie McClure, who did a fantastic job. The text has been proofread I don't know how many times, and a block of ISBNs have been purchased. All that's left is to assemble the final pieces together using Scrivener, produce the various eBooks, and then test them out in the various e-readers.

I'm targeting Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook, and Apple's iTunes bookstore. I don't have specific plans to print Ohlen's Arrow in a dead tree edition, but am open to that once the eBook versions are all online and available for sale.

The self-imposed deadline is to have the book available for sale by June 1st. I'm very excited to see this effort come to fruition! Now, if I can just make enough money to quit my day job and become a full-time writer, life will be golden...

World map and ISBN's

The world map for Ohlen's Arrow has been finished as well as the cover design. I also purchased a block of ISBN's to be used for each delivery channel.

What remains is to get my author pages created for each eBook publisher, then format the novel and create the eBook files.

My goal is to have the book available for sale online by June 1st and I'm on target to meet that deadline.