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12/2/2011

Author's Log: Stardate 12022011

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I haven't posted a log here in awhile but making lots of progress on several fronts.I finally published my second novel, _Signs of War_. Yikes, it took much longer than I originally anticipated! What I learned from publishing _Signs of War_ is that publishing books can be a lot like having children. My wife may have a different view, but what I mean is ... each book is different!

... Different in the way it's conceived
... It takes shape differently
... It comes into the world differently
... And it reacts to the world differently and the world reacts differently to it!

I'll also add that, just like with my firstborn, I took such great care with my first published novel. I went to great pains with every single detail and nuance of publishing _The Watchman of Ephraim_, taking nothing for granted. I had no experience having a child before my son Jared was born, just as I had no experience publishing a novel before _TWoE_, so there was so much excitement and anticipation and not a small amount of anxiety.

With my second novel, as with my second child, Ryan, I naively thought that the experience would be similar to my first experience ... and just like with my first child, it bore NO RESEMBLANCE to the first experience!

The UPs:
+ I was more relaxed writing _Signs of War_. I learned so much about how to tell a story in novel form.
+ I already had a core of characters to start with and a storyline established. Writing a series gives you those advantages.
+ I knew how to create the cover, front matter and back matter and how to format. After all, I did it all once, so I should be an expert, shouldn't I?
+ I wrote generally at a faster pace.

The Downs:
- I learned that with a series, the writer must balance the need to give new readers, who may have not read the previous book(s) in the series, just enough background on characters and storyline without boring the stuffing out of those who have.
- I thought because I had written one novel, that I would just naturally get better at eliminating typos, grammatical errors and the like. Well, I didn't make most of the errors that I made writing _TWoE_  ... BUT ... I made new ones! <sigh>
- I was too casual with my deadline with _Signs of War_. That's because I thought it would close at the same tempo as _The Watchman of Ephraim_ did. Well ... it didn't and I ended up missing a window of time that my main editor had available. That caused a chain effect of delays to transpire. I was supposed to have the book to her by no later than August 8th. If I would have kept that deadline, _Signs of War_ would have been out by my target date of September 11th - just in time to leverage the additional interest that _The Watchman of Ephraim_ was garnering (because of the plot). Instead, _SoW_ took two additional weeks to complete. That caused my editor to take an additional month to edit and that in turn led to further delays on my end, making final changes, formatting and publishing it. In the end, _Signs of War_ was released almost six weeks later!
- The eBook, paperback, and hardback publishing of _Signs of War_ did NOT go as smoothly as I thought it would! I thought, "I've done this before," so I wasn't quite as careful as I was the first time around. Boy oh boy, I should have been. A series of minor but careless imperfections has kept me from publishing all editions even to this writing. The hardcover edition is STILL not published, pending one more proof that I should receive in about a week.

I think the one thing that I feel I must improve on most is SCHEDULING. Ideally, I would like to have a pre-release phase where I could allow pre-ordering. I'd also like to get the novel into the hands of at least a dozen reviewers BEFORE releasing it to the public and have all the editions released on the same day.

Just like with having children, all that stuff though goes away when I took my first look at my son Ryan ... and then Jordan ... and then Noah. They are all blessings, as are every one of my published works.

All praise to Him!

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    About Gerard de Marigny

    ​Gerard de Marigny is an American novelist and screenplay writer. His newest release is WHITE WIDOW (Cris De Niro, Book 7) and he is currently writing the sequel to the Amazon-Bestselling Modern War Western, JOSHUA'S COUNTRY.

    Since his 2011 inaugural publication of THE WATCHMAN OF EPHRAIM (CRIS DE NIRO, Book 1), Mr. de Marigny has independently published seven CRIS DE NIRO novels and two novellas, along with JOSHUA’S COUNTRY.

    The Cris De Niro series is set in the days and years following September 11, 2001 when a non-governmental based counter-terrorism firm is formed to respond to crises born from a variety of modern geopolitical events. The series of books resonate with espionage, sub-genre fiction readers from around the world.

    In 2014, the famed Creator/Producer of the iconic MacGyver and Stargate SG-1 television series contacted Gerard after reading and loving THE WATCHMAN OF EPHRAIM (Cris De Niro, Book 1). de Marigny and Greenburg formed CDN Films to write and produce screenplays  based on the novels in the CRIS DE NIRO series. The first screenplay, CRIS DE NIRO: THE WATCHMAN OF EPHRAIM is now under consideration and Legendary Entertainment.

    Prior to his writing career, Gerard worked in the financial services industry, and prior to that, he wrote, recorded and produced music for other artists, for television and was a member of the rock band, Americade. He is a graduate of Penn State University. Gerard and his wife Lisa live in the foothills of Las Vegas, Nevada with their two cats, Nalah and Katya. They have four sons, Jared, Ryan, Jordan, and Noah.


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