I don’t think really anyone gets updates from this, but this is just being written because I have to start having something for the blog.
But, yeah. It’s been a long journey, short for publishing books in general, but still. I started writing Gene Harvest around May of 2022. Then I went on a close to three-month hyper-fixation binge, and did almost nothing but write. It was extremely rough structurally, which is what happens when you just barrel through with blinders on. I did some edits, hired some beta readers, and then sent it out to two of the publishers within litRPG. A couple months later in December, I was signed!
I honestly couldn’t have made a better choice than going with Portal Books. Between having as much control over things as I do, to how nice everyone is, the great community of author’s I joined, and the work they’re willing to put into each book, it was an amazing experience for my debut. The last reason was perhaps the most important. The submitted draft had heart and good ideas, but it was extremely rough, and missing what makes a book great.
I submitted it at 119k words, and at publishing, it’s at 197k. It was all necessary because of how bare bones the original was. I’m so proud of what it’s become, and what it’s growing to be. Now though, I have to keep clacking away at book 2, cause there’s a lot of Benny’s story that remains untold.
Gene Harvest: Book 1 of the Crimson Hydra out on February 22nd!
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