It’s Friday. Join us for another Marketing for Romance Writers 52-Week Blog Challenge post. However, I must tell you this is a copy of a post written for this topic in a previous year. Wait, don’t leave.
I’ve written The End on new books since then so a little has changed in the celebrating department. I have revised this copied post in brief to update and add changes. The first change is rewriting the topic as given to us this week in 2019.
Week 16: The End: A Time for Celebration?
Yes, I celebrate but in subtle ways. When I finish my work and it’s ready to go, I’ll smile and tell my hero and his heroine they are free to go out into the world. I will miss them when it’s over. This is another reason I write a series. I get to see them again and again.
I don’t celebrate like I should or have a big to-do (outside of my mind). I take little down-time after finishing a book either in a draft or a true ending. Another thing I do is give myself a silent praise or a pat on the back.
I wrote an ENDING to a new book within the last two weeks. Yay! YAY! Bringing this book to an end had been a struggle to find the perfect ending. If any of my endings deserved a celebration, this one did. The book still has to see the editor, so I will revisit this book. It isn’t due out until November, but I might push it up to October.
At writing the ending, I shouted it on social media and celebrated with their Likes and Comments. I told my close friends. Many of them have heard a little about the story, so I relished in their pride for me. Then, alone with myself, I stepped away from the book wondering what the heck to do now. I already missed my hero and heroine, the setting, and I wanted to go back to them. Albeit, in the coming days, I subtly celebrated with Netflix, watched movies, enjoyed a couple lunches with friends as we talked about the book, and I finished “reading” a book I had started a while ago.
I breathed.
Well, it had been a short-lived break. Another book waited. Knowing me, I will celebrate the same way when this book is published, but my heart will be pounding and nerves-a-shakin’ because it will have been sent into the world.
In the meantime:
It was time to get back to work. I stuck my hands back on my keyboard.
Previous to writing the end to said book, I had another book started, as I usually do though this time I took more breaks than usual and shopped for a couple new outfits. I allowed myself to breathe with time to myself away from the keyboard, before taking the next book to its own ending, which I’m doing now.
Thanks for reading.
This is the time to hop on over to check out the #MFRWauthor Blog to find other participating author links. This year there are new authors participating. Not new as in “brand-new authors,” but new to the 52-Week Blog Challenge.
See ya next time.
NOTE: Authors and readers? Do you think pushing up my release date to October is a bad time because of Halloween and other paranormal books being released? I don’t want my release to be buried. Hah, pun intended. 👻💀
Happy Writing and Reading.
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel ~ Contemporary Romance 
15 thoughts on “#AmWriting Book Talk: Farewell My Lovelies #MFRWauthor”
Teagan R. Geneviene
Mary, you’re an inspiration. You’ve been working so hard.
As for an October date, every year I hear at least one person complain about all the Halloween stuff. So I think you’ll be fine — something different. And as someone else mentioned, you’d beat the Christmas rush.
Each week is flying past. I so hoped to publish Pip’s next tale this spring. At this rate, I might be looking at October too! Huge hugs.
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Aw, thanks, Teagan. Well, it’s encouraging about wishing for something different to read during October. Come to think of it, sometimes I do to, except at Christmas. I love Christmas stories. I’m probably better off to stick to my plan of November. Whatever happens, happens, and I still have my own readers to think about and how they’ll like my new series starter. Hopefully, book two in the series won’t be far behind. Thanks for your comment.
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Teagan R. Geneviene
Wow — full steam ahead! You go girl.
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
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Cathy Brockman
Great ways to celebrate. I will be honest and say in October, I tend to lean toward the paranormal and mystery type books. If I do see a good fall related or a book is part of a series I am really into, I may buy it but with a limited budget, I tend to go for the Halloween type
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Thanks for your input, Cathy. That’s what I was thinking too. Regardless, mine has to come out in November. December at the latest since that’s our collaboration months to publish. I’m sticking to November then as planned even though holiday books will also be coming out. I’ll deal with that though. (Hopefully with my own too.)
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Rhonda Gilmour writing romance as Sadira Stone
Taking a break between projects sounds like a good idea. The trouble is, that break time is filled with promo for the previous book. Still, it’s a cycle I’m glad to be spinning on (in?)
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Oh, right, Rhonda. Promoting. Ugh! That’s a whole job in itself. When we take time away from that, of course, we know what suffers. I get so tired of it. Not many breaks there.
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Jacquie Biggar
As long as you beat the holiday rush, I think you’re okay to pub in October, Mary. Congrats on finishing the book. You’re right, the characters fill your head and heart so much that it’s hard to say goodbye. I guess that’s the joy of books- you can reread later on 🙂
Happy Easter!
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Thanks for the October release tip, Jacquie. You’re right, and I just realized, even Christmas holiday books come out in October, so I’ll have to consider that too. With a little luck, I’ll be able to release one of those, too, but it’s a shorty. Thanks for visiting.
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D. Wallace Peach
I remember crying when I said goodbye to the characters in my first book, Mary. 🙂 Writing a series delays the inevitable, but amidst all the celebration of The End, there’s still a bit of a loss. Congrats on finishing one and good luck on the next. 🙂
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
There is a loss, Diana. Not only for the characters but for the setting and environment we lived in for so long while writing. I’m going to make myself cry any moment. Haha. I’ll blame it on my son leaving when I hardly got to see him and my daughter-in-law while they were here. ❤ Quality time with them helped though.
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D. Wallace Peach
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henhousepublishing
It’s an odd feeling when you release a new book. The hero is no longer “my” hero, but he definitely belongs to the heroine now. That means I have to find a new hero.
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Mary J. McCoy-Dressel
Wow, I like that, Holly. It takes a while for me to give him up. (I’m not sure I ever completely do.) It’s still fun finding a new one. ❤
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