Personally, in the beginning, I liked to write drafts completely before editing.
Now that I have a few manuscripts complete and published, I feel a bit more comfortable with editing as I go BUT no matter what, do not do it if it stifles your creative process. Wait for edits until after if it does.
When I receive edits I often have to read them, set them aside for some time (whether that be for a full day or just a meal depends). Once I’ve had some time to digest the notes, I can creatively come up with ways to handle each one. It’s actually a really fun process for me now.
Once a manuscript is ready you as the author need to decide which publishing route you would like to take. If the genre fits what publishers are looking for, it might be good to query agents. This is best done in rounds so you’re able to adapt as you learn.
Or, perhaps your genre sees the most success in the self-publishing world. This route takes just as much planning but it’s different.
Marketing is important no matter what route you take.
Find what’s important and works for you and adjust your plan accordingly.
Do you want to have trade reviews? Research what the requirements are long before your book goes live.
Will you be reaching out to bookstores? Have your friends call in and request your book?
Is it set up through Ingram or another distributor that facilitates discounts and returns that stores require?
Or, will you be reaching out to libraries so they’ll carry your eBook? Many libraries have a place to easily make a purchase suggestion. Some even allow you to do this without a library card. Another thing friends can help you out with.
Will you have a blog tour?
The possibilities are endless.
Omitted Pieces
Transformed Nexus
Book Two
Stephanie Hansen
Genre: YA Sci-Fi
Publisher: Fire and Ice YA and Tantor Audio
Date of Publication: 03/01/22
ISBN: 978-1-955784-21-4
ASIN: B09MMF5QLQ
Number of pages: 268
Word Count: 67,302
Cover Artist: Caroline Andrus
Tagline: The amazing conclusion to the Transformed Nexus duology explores uncharted territory with dangerous compassion.
Book Description:
In “Omitted Pieces,” the conclusion of the Transformed Nexus duology, the year is 2164 and the new Sierra is on a new planet with a new problem. The mad scientist Cromwell has kidnapped her mother and set up shop on planet Scepter. In order to save her, Sierra will need the help of friends in this place of glowing leaves and a floating capital. Back on Vortex, Al has shut down the old facility, but will he be able to make it to Scepter? What about those who made it to Earth? Can they all work together or are they closer to danger than they realize?
I awake hungry and thirsty.
Is this what the afterlife is like? I never expected Dr. Cromwell to follow
through on his promise to put my conscience and memory in a qualified body.
Hunger pains me again and I rise to find myself in a tropical forest. I’m
surrounded by lush green, but the color is unlike any I’ve seen before. It’s as
if the leaves are neon shining off of their surroundings. My body knows what to
look for, even though I don’t. Where am I? What planet have I been transported
to? Where’s Mom? I look down at it, this hourglass figure. I’d never been
blessed with such curves in my sixteen-year-old body. I wonder if my dad will
recognize me in this new one. I wonder if Al will still love me after
everything? I also try to map out how to get home, but it’s all too much for
this newfound body and I quickly find myself napping under a sea of green.
I’m roused by a series of
clicks and identify the circular metal in front of me immediately out of place
as it may be.
“Vex, how’d you get here?”
“I told ‘past’ you your
mission was full of danger, Sierra.”
“How long has it been since I
lost consciousness?”
“I calculate two weeks and
five days since the ‘new’ you left Planet Vortex.”
“What? How have I been out
for that long? Where’s Al? Did the shuttle make it to Earth?”
There’s a stream of beeps.
“My universe data scan shows that the Al you’re asking about still has a pulse.
It’s the Al ‘old’ you met on Planet Vortex, right?”
My heart warms, it beams.
“Yes. Wait, your universe data scan, what’s that?”
“The World Government
equipped all clopils with new scanners and applied all Counter Friction strings
when the Planet Vortex revolution hit the news. The scan also shows that
everyone who had been on your scheduled shuttle made it to Earth. The processes
at the medical facility ended, too, but more on that later. We need to get to
your mother.”
Mom, are you okay? I try to
reach her telepathically, the way I had back on Vortex.
I’m fine. Just need to figure
out where I am exactly.
“Sierra, there’s much at
stake. We must embark on our journey at once,” Vex says. Sunrays stream through openings in the canopy of
leaves above us as we hike. I keep having to reassure myself it’s me when I
look down and see someone else’s smaller feet. At least Cromwell dressed this
body in proper attire. I don’t know what I’d do without these boots. Vex, on
the other hand, is not well equipped for this terrain at all. He was made for
modern city living.
He’s used some of the tools
he brought to lengthen his arms in order to help, but I keep assisting him,
wishing he’d move faster. I think being locked up in the Vortex facility for so
long gave me a sort of cabin fever. Now, being out in the open, I want to
stretch my (these, no my, oh whatever) legs and cover the ground between us and
Mom as quickly as possible.
Also, the weight’s gone. My
legs had felt like they were filled with lead because of the guilt. But now,
now that Viscerous and Albina are alive and safe on Earth; now that Pixie’s
where no more harm can be done (well, no more harm than a painful exam in the
graduate mathematics program at Stanford); now that Dad is free and no longer
having to save Cromwell’s subjects, my legs feel light as air.
Mom, we’re headed to you. How
are you doing?
I wait for what seems like
an eternity, but she doesn’t respond.
About the Author:
Stephanie Hansen is a PenCraft and Global Book Award Winning Author. Her novella series, Altered Helix, released 2020 and book one of the Transformed Nexus duology, Replaced Parts, released 2021. Her short story, Break Time, and poetry has been featured in Mind's Eye literary magazine. The Kansas Writers Association published her short story, Existing Forces, appointing her as a noted author. She has held a deep passion for writing since early childhood, but a brush with death caused her to allow it to grow. She's part of an SCBWI critique group in Lawrence, KS and two local book clubs. She attends many writers' conferences including the Writing Day Workshops, New York Pitch, Penned Con, New Letters, All Write Now, Show Me Writers Master Class, BEA, and Nebraska Writers Guild conference as well as Book Fairs and Comic-Cons. She is a member of the deaf and hard of hearing community.
Congratulations on your upcoming release of Omitted Pieces, Stephanie, I enjoyed following the tour and learning about your book, which sounds like a great book for my granddaughter to enjoy and I like the cover! Good luck with your book and I hope the tour was a success! Thanks for sharing it with me and have a spectacular week!
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Congratulations on your upcoming release of Omitted Pieces, Stephanie, I enjoyed following the tour and learning about your book, which sounds like a great book for my granddaughter to enjoy and I like the cover! Good luck with your book and I hope the tour was a success! Thanks for sharing it with me and have a spectacular week!
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