So, where have I been?

If you follow this blog, my website, my Facebook, my Twitter, then I'm sure you've noticed how I'm not posting as much as I usually do (for blogs I really try to do one a week). Well, friends, May has been a busy month. Very busy. But I wanted to take some time to check in and let you all know what's been happening.

Right now I'm deep into my Seeing edits from the editor. I'm hoping to be finished by late in the week so that it's off to the publisher as soon as possible and it can be that much closer to being in your hands by the end of June.

Speaking of which, I am constantly asked what the release date is in June. Well, to be honest, unlike your big publishing houses - where specific teams are dedicated to single works and can get everything done in order to meet the specific street date - smaller publishers don't quite have the same resources and are stretching all their people thin to get everything done with every author who has an upcoming release. So, June is all I can say. And I will work as hard as I can to (quoting Starship Enterprise Captain Jean Luc Picard) "Make it so."

As far as reviewing edits, I have found that (having not read through the novel in quite a while so that I could look at it with fresh eyes and ideas and thoughts when the time came) I am very pleasantly surprised just how touching and humorous Seeing is. Of course that was the plan all along but even I'm surprised by it. It took a very long time for me (years and years) before I stopped hearing my own voice in everything I wrote. There are times now I have to go back because I get so caught up with everything that I forget to apply the edits I want (basically they've all been cosmetic - a word change here and there...some rewording, a little shortening).

Seeing hasn't been my only priority for the last month, though. My wife recently graduated with her certificate in education administration (woo-hoo!), we've also been getting our baby registries ready and shopping for little Miss Peanut (found her a baby girl's Batman shirt at Old Navy yesterday - score!), and also have been busy trying to get our first house. Not to mention that the school year is wrapping up for both of us.

In the writing realm, I have been working on a manuscript for a book you'll hopefully see near the end of 2015, but that's been put on hold until I finish Seeing.

So, yes, a busy month. But all for good things.

I promise to post more in the coming weeks (especially with the release sneaking up), but for now I leave you with the first of four book spots (mini-trailers) that'll be coming over the next month, focusing on different aspects of Seeing. This first one is entitled "Trailer Breakdown." Enjoy!