Sarah Z. Creates

Wow … it’s hard to believe that it’s June already! I’ve been scarce around here because I’ve been frantically plugging away at “In the Shadow of Secrets,” trying to get it ready to go live … and I’m almost there!

The biggest challenge for me, as a writer, isn’t writing, or planning, or revising, or marketing (although I’m not going to say I’m an expert at any of those things just yet!). It’s letting go. It’s saying “this is good enough.” Because I can tweak endlessly.

I have seven manuscripts sitting around my house, gathering dust on my hard drive (or in the cloud, depending on which one we’re talking about). Half of them have been sitting around for years, as I tweak, revise, flesh out, forget about and just dither. And you know what happens when I do that? Nothing. No one else gets to enjoy my stories, which are pretty good (says me, the unbiased audience). They die quiet deaths at the hands of daily routine and horizon-bound perfectionism.

I’m not doing that with “In the Shadow of Secrets.” It’s done. I have a launch date set (August 15, 2025), and it will go live on that date. I‘m excited and nervous and constantly trying to not introduce errors as I tweak this line or that scene.

So, goals!

• Get all the various and sundry marketing assets necessary to promote “In the Shadows of Secrets” finalized.
• Start the revisions for Selah #2 (right now, “On the Edge of Truth,” but I think we all know how often I tweak titles!).
• Actually start telling people about “In the Shadow of Secrets!”

Here’s to making books live and remembering that perfection is the enemy of progress!