Amazon Ebook: http://tinyurl.com/TheMasonListKindle
Amazon Print: http://tinyurl.com/TheMasonListAmazonPrint
Barnes&Noble Ebook: http://tinyurl.com/TheMasonListB-N
iBooks: Coming Soon
Kobo: http://tinyurl.com/TheMasonList-Kobo
Smashwords: http://tinyurl.com/TheMasonList-Smashwords
Edits are over. Did I type that sentence? I have moved to the layout portion of this project. I spent four hours this past weekend just fixing the paragraph indentions for the Kindle Mobi file: from Word to Writeway Pro to RTF back to Word to HTML file to Mobi file. Yes, that’s my actual work flow that appears to allow the insertion of the first line indentions. Apparently, Writeway Pro doesn’t like the indentions on the first pass, but I need to upload into that program for the actual chapter layout with table of contents. Trial and error; push out to Kindle for a test. Ironically, this is supposed to be the easy one. Smashwords is supposed to be the hard one. I am also doing the print layout, which may result in the death of my computer mouse.
With all of that said – Happy Thanksgiving!! Hopefully, I will have more exciting blog reports as we get closer to the release date.
When I started writing three years ago (gasp!), I didn’t know how time consuming this project would eventually become in my life. My cousin shared a quote this week.
“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it’s a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress; and then it becomes a master; and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.” – Winston Churchill
I don’t know if I will ever feel the book is ready for the public, but eventually I have to let go and say enough is enough.
Thanksgiving Song of the Day: Better Days by the Goo Goo Dolls
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
In honor of it being NANO Month…
This is the first book I’ve ever read that made me feel like I was in a Tim Burton movie. The words visually jumped from the pages. It was mysterious and mystical as well as captivating and unique. This story had me from page one to the end. It jumped around, weaving a love story, wrapped in this strange world of the midnight circus as two magicians (Celia and Marco) compete in a battle of life and death in the beautiful Le Cirque des Reves.
The Night Circus has been optioned for a movie and I can only imagine Tim Burton or Christopher Nolan, bringing it to life. After all, it does have an air to it that would go nicely with The Prestige.
Reason for being On the Rack
In honor of National Novel Writing Month (NANO), The Night Circus is added as one of my ultimate favorites and one that has been a great influence.
Erin Morgenstern wrote the first draft during NANO. It was later revised and reworked over the next couple of years. This is something that I find very encouraging. NANO is awesome program that helps challenge someone to write a novel. However, most writers can’t compose a complete, publish ready, novel is thirty days (unless you are Colleen Hoover). So I view it as a tool to lay down a very intensive, 50,000 word outline that can grow into something remarkable like The Night Circus .
So get out your red scarf and spend the next few days of the polar vortex reading The Night Circus and also visit the NANO website if you are interested in learning more about the program.
Well, I realized it had been over a month since my last blog post. I am a very crappy blogger. I am in the final, final edits of The Mason List. Unfortunately, it consumes all my free time. For instance, I am very sad that Gilmore Girls is finally on Netflixs and I can’t sit down and binge watch it. I would love to write an awesome comparison of how I equally loved Gone Girl the book and loved Gone Girl the movie. They should seriously reboot Gone with the Wind and cast Ben Affleck as Rhett Butler. I also realized it’s the 20th Anniversary of one of my all-time favorite movies, Shawshank Redemption. I could write an entire blog on all the cool facts I know about the movie. For instance, Stephen King sold Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption for only $5.00 and never cashed the check.
But for now, this is what you get. Happy Crappy Blog Day!
SD Hendrickson 