Butters! Hi! Hi! Ooh. You’re so beautiful! You’re so beautiful! Ooh. Don't be sad!
We're going on a date! Hey guys! What's up? It's me!
I asked you guys on Twitter what you would be interested in seeing in regard
to my day-to-day life, and you had mentioned the publishing and editing
process of The Savior’s Sister, which is perfect timing, ‘cause that's what I'm
working on! Right now, I'm going through the final developmental edits of TSS, and
then I will be shipping it off to my copy editor. The book cover is also in
the works. There was a bit of a hiccup with the cover. I had hired a company, and
unfortunately, a few months passed and they weren't able to follow through with
the product, so I had to hire a new company. I am now working with Demonza
and they have already submitted proofs for the cover. It’s looking fantastic! I've
sent in my corrections. I'm really, really excited to see the finished cover. First,
before all of that, Cliff and I are gonna go on a little date. We're gonna be
heading out in a bit. And while I wait, I am editing! (Music)
Are you cozy? Are you cozy, here? You're just gonna watch me edit? Okay, we can do that. I am
editing The Savior’s Sister. As I mentioned before, I am - oh, Butters! I'm getting
kisses! I am in the middle of the developmental edits, so I am going
through and working on that. I'm basically going through each, all the
edits, and I'm seeing which edits I agree with, which edits I like, and then I am
making those edits onto the primary doc. Now, some of you might be saying, “Jenna
why don't you just, you know, do the edits right on the edited document?” And to that
I say, “Shhh-shh-shhh-shhh-shhhut the fuck up.” I know that I could just easily do that, but this is
the method that I have always done and it's just what's comfortable for me and
it's what I prefer. Right Butters! Hi! Ooh. She’s like, “Don't film me! I'm shy!” I also have some book cover
mock-ups right here on my laptop. Wooh! But you guys will see that later with the final
cover. Hello! What's up? I am here for another update regarding the editing and
publishing journey for The Savior’s Sister! So, the last time I filmed, I was working
on the developmental edits so I could send TSS off to my copy editor. I
finished the developmental edits! TSS is with my copy editor right now, so it is
being polished and cleaned up! That's very exciting! I also have a finished
cover! It's all done! So, since the book is with my editor, I can't really work on
that, obviously. That means right now I have been focusing more on marketing and
publishing options for The Savior’s Sister. So far, I finished the back of the book
blurb, my author bio, the ebook cover, and the audio book cover. I have finished all
of the aesthetics that I use on social media for The Savior’s Sister. I have also
made all of the TSS playlists. I've started doing TSS Tuesday
over on Instagram. All of the portraits for The Savior’s Sister are done.
I've also updated my website. So, we're trucking along! We're making a lot of
progress! I'm really, really excited! Today, Cliff has an appointment with his neuro
specialist, and after that I am going to be working on swag for The Savior’s Sister!
Basically, what that means is free paraphernalia that you would hand out to
potential readers. Things like bookmarks, stickers, postcards, stuff like that.
Vistaprint is currently having a sale, which is perfect timing! So I'm going to
make all of the TSS swag today! We've also started working on the TSS book
trailer! We've picked out the song for it, which for us is the first step, and Cliff
is going to modify and master it today. Oh my gosh, it is taking me a freaking
CENTURY to finally finish this book swag! Oh, it has never taken me this long.
I just kept - oh, Butters is not happy about it either! She's like, “Yeah, mom! It took you WAY too long!” But, yeah, I
don't know what it was. It just took forever, and so now I'm finalizing
everything, and while I was working on this, Cliff was working on the music and
animations for my book trailer, so it was a productive day! It was just...it was just
a little...a little tough. We're working on the music for the TSS book trailer.
Basically, we found a song online royalty-free, and Cliff is mastering it.
You know, making it all fancy and wonderful for the trailer, and it's not
done yet, but this is what we have so far! I'm so...I’m so excited! It's just
sounding so good! (Music)
Anyway, I won't bore you with the whole thing, but we're so excited! He's already
made a bunch of changes to the song. He's already mastered it and stuff. He's going
to be doing more mastering. Kind of getting the song ready is the first step
to making the book trailer, because the song will dictate essentially how the
book trailer flows and it will dictate the script of the book trailer, ‘cause
everything has to be on the beat of the song. So I'm really excited! I did not
expect to get this far today! I'm gonna let Cliff get back to work, and then I'm
gonna work on the script! Right, Butters? Are you gonna help me? Are you just gonna
hide? She's like, “I don't know, I'm not sure. I’ll
think about it.” Hello! Hello, hello, hello! Um, fuck. I am so - fuck, I'm like out of breath. Okay, so I don't
remember where I was the last time I updated but today - fuck - today has been a
really busy day and lots of publishing updates. I have officially received the
copy edits for The Savior’s Sister. I received them today! The copy editor was
so sweet! She said that she loved the story, she said it was epic, she really
enjoyed it! So that makes me really, really excited! I cannot wait to go
through the copy edit! She said it was very clean, and there weren't a lot of
mistakes to go through, so that's really cool, you know.
I try! So I will probably be starting on the copy edits tomorrow. I'm trying to
focus on not overwhelming myself, because lately I've been...my to-do list has just
been fucking nuts, and I've been overwhelming the shit out of myself, so
I've been trying to make my to-do lists a lot more minimal, so that I can be
easier on myself, and then today was like, “Haha! Fuck you, we're just gonna overwhelm
you anyway!” So, that's where I'm at right now. And for the rest of the day, I have
invoicing to do, and I'm going to be working on the book trailer. We've made a
huge dent in the book trailer! I'm very excited about it! I'm gonna eat my Taco
Bell and get to work! And here we have Clifford Tomlin. What you got there? Cliff: I got me some bookmarks!
Jenna: Yeah! My bookmarks came in! My swag! My book swag! Ooh, looks good!
Cliff: What's this? Jenna: Those are the postcards! Cliff: Oh, okay! Jenna: Ooh, this is hella pretty, huh?
Look at it! Yes! Look so good! It looks so good! (x3) Okay, then, the last one. Are you having fun? Cliff: Your stuff’s cool, man!
Jenna: Yeah! (Sings) Leila’s little portrait is the front. (Normal Voice) So all my swag is here! I'm excited!
Hey girl! Hi! You just gonna sit like that? Hi! Silly girl! So silly! She’s SO silly! Aah! Violent!
Ferocious! Oh, don't topple! Don't topple! So I'm working on the book trailer now.
Butters! Not everything's about you, Butters. She's like, “That's not true!
Everything's about me!” How about I give you guys a little teaser? Butters, are you
gonna...are you gonna ruin the teaser?
Oh! Oh, kisses! (Music)
Butters, are you helping?
Okay, Butters, okay! I stopped! I stopped! You silly girl, you stopped me! Okay? You
know what? You know what? Guys, I think I'm gonna play with this little girl for a
bit. Think I’m gonna play with this little girl for a bit. I think that's what she's
trying to say. I know, she's so subtle. It's SO hard to tell. Hey guys, it’s me! I just wanted to
give a quick update. The copy edits are going by really quickly. I just got it
back because obviously, I have to go through all of her copy edits, and you
know, make some changes and things like that. I just got the manuscript back this
weekend, and today is Thursday and I'm already on chapter 20, so that's really,
REALLY exciting! I wanted to show you guys. I mean, working on the copy edits, I
mean, it's not exciting. It's literally just me typing at my keyboard and
reading through my manuscript, but Cliff isn't doing well. He is feeling really,
really sick. It comes with the territory of his injury, and so he was supposed to
have a doctor appointment today. We had to cancel it.
I was supposed to run errands today, we had to cancel that. So I'm going to be
staying home, taking care of Cliff, and working on copy edits. Hopefully
Cliff feels better soon. I hate seeing him not feeling well. But yeah, right now
the focus is copy edits. After that, I will be making teaser images for The Savior’s
Sister. We will submit TSS for proofreading, and get that release date
scheduled. Aah! That's crazy! Hi! Are you helping me
edit? So, here's what copy editing looks like. Kinda. Not really. Butters! I
already actually went through all of the copy edits, which is why you'll see...this
is where the notes should be and there aren't any. I already went through all of
her notes and made the changes, and now I'm doing a read-through of the whole
book to make sure we dotted all of our I’s and crossed all of our T's and
everything looks good before I send it to the proofread.
Yeah, super exciting stuff! Hey guys! What's up? It's been a while since I
updated you on my publishing journey. The reason for that is that shit has been
fucking CRAZY here! It's been...oh my gosh, it’s just been so stressful! Come on,
camera stop being a little bitch! But I have been working! I've been getting
stuff done. I can't remember the last update I [gave]...so I'm just gonna recap
everything that's finished. Developmental edits are done! Copy edits are done! Crazy!
I can't believe I'm this far! Um, the book trailer - also done! The teaser images - I
finished the teaser images! I don't think I showed you. Did I show you guys the
teaser images? Hold on, let me...let me pull some up. These are the teaser images, or
some of ‘em, at least. Boom! Boom! So I made these via BookBrush and Pixelmator.
‘Pixel-ma-tore?’ I'm not sure, but that's where I made ‘em. I'm really, really
happy with how they turned out. It took me two days to make twenty. I mean, not
two full days. I spent, you know, like, I don't know? An hour making ten, and then
an hour making another ten. You know. It was a really, really quick process. So,
yeah! So all my teaser images are done! I also have all my bookish swag made.
That's all done. And the last thing that I have not finished, but I am mostly done
with is the TSS press kit. Let me show you that. So, I haven't finished the press
kit. There's a page of the press kit that is for links, um, showing people where
they can see TSS. TSS is not available yet, so I don't have that page YET. But, um,
here's the first page. The second page is an introduction to The Savior's Champion,
which is the first book in the series. Then we have the TSS page, looking snazzy.
Then we would skip over the link page, because I don't have it yet, and then it would
be about the author. So my press kit is, I don't know, 4/5ths done. I'm very, very, VERY
happy with how it turned out. Right now, what I have left is the proofread for
TSS. I have contacted two proofreaders. I contacted the one I was originally gonna
go with, and they haven't responded. It's been a while, so I contacted another - my
friend’s proofreader. And once that gets going, I'll be able to finalize a release
date for TSS, release the book trailer, and get the book formatted, get it ready
to go! The proofread should only take a couple days, but yeah, that's where I'm at
so far. And I will see you guys soon! Ah! Hey guys, it's me! Holy crap, it has
been a LONG time since I updated! The reason for that being that we are now in
a PANDEMIC. When I started this vlog, I think that was back in January. Yeah, shit
was - shit was really different then, and now things are crazy. So that's why I
haven't really been updating a lot lately, plus I've been more so focused on
YouTube and things like that. Things that are outside of the publishing process,
but I'm here now and I do have some updates to give! First and foremost is
that the proofreading of TSS is done, which means that all of the editing
steps for TSS are now finished! Complete! BAM! We done! Butters! You wanna come here? Hey, girl!
Hi! The next update is that TSS is fully formatted in hardback, paperback, and
ebook! It's all formatted, and what may shock you is that I formatted it
myself! Right, Butters? Oh, crazy girl! You guys
probably know that I've always talked about how I hire formatters to format my
work. I was going to do the same with this book, but long story short, shit got
all complicated and obnoxious and annoying, so I was like, “You know what?
Fuck it! I'm gonna try it out myself.” My friends Meg LaTorre and Sacha Black
recommended Vellum. That's what they use to format their books, and their books
look amazing! So I tried Vellum out and I loved it! It was so easy to use, and
within two hours of tinkering with it, I had completely formatted The Savior's
Sister in ebook, paperback, and hardback! So I was really, really, really happy with
how it turned out and how easy it was to use. I think it looks beautiful! Here's a
sample of what it looks like! I love this little filigree pattern! I inputted it
myself! It kind of looks like a stylized lily, so yeah, I'm a big fan! I'm really
happy with how it turned out! I just love it, and I will be using this
from now on for my formatting! But yeah! The formats for TSS are all completely
done, and I finished it in one day! That's the fastest formatting has ever been
finished for me. If you guys want me to do a video tutorial of Vellum in the
future, comment below, let me know! I'm definitely down to do it, and no I am NOT
sponsored by Vellum. They were just recommended to me by...by who? By you?
They were just recommended to me by Meg and Sacha, and I tried them out. But, hey,
Vellum, if you're watching this, you can sponsor me! I'm super down! I love your
product! So at this point, everything leading up to the presale for TSS is
done! All I have left is the hard book cover and the paperback cover, so that'll
be what gets worked on next. I cannot believe the presale for TSS is right
around the corner! So is the book trailer! Well, I'm pretty sure this video is gonna
come out after the book trailer, so if you're watching this you've already seen
the trailer! Ah, it happened! But yeah, the presale is right around the
corner! I cannot believe it's happening so soon! It is absolutely crazy! Oh,
Butters! Butters is excited, too! You're excited! (Butters whines.) Oh, don’t cry! I'm going to end this
vlog here, because it's getting kind of lengthy. Let me know if you guys want
more publishing and marketing updates in future vlogs. I am super down! Thank you
guys so much for joining me on my writing journey and I will see you later! (Music)