There comes a time in every authors career where the personal and professional lives clash. This, dear friends, is NOT one of those times.
I'm sitting here at 9:45 on a Friday morning still in tears. I posted a couple weeks ago that Catfished would be up for presale on June 6th and live on June 20th. Overnight I received an email from my dear friend in California who acts as my editor. The gist of the mail was, "What in the hell is this?
Let me preface this with my habits. I back up EVERYTHING. Multiple times. I have USB key fobs, external hard drives, 2 hard drives on my main computer and my laptop and 3 different cloud storage services. I learned a long time ago how easy it is to lose data by a crash. My spouse is in IT and runs scans and checks on all my devices monthly. Yeah, well, it STILL WASN'T ENOUGH.
Catfished comes in at around 220 pages in print and over 100 pages in the middle of the book were CORRUPTED and unreadable. Of course, I still have all my notes and layouts, but I have to go back in and literally rewrite that entire section. I've spent a few hours going through all my files and every single one is bad so it apparently came from the source file.
To say that I'm heartbroken and feeling defeated is an understatement. Since last October when I released Redemption, I've anticipated Bear's story. I took a bit of a break with the holiday season and then I got sick in January so working on the story was sporadic to say the least. I finally got it done and sent it out. She was supposed to get it back to me for final revisions by next week. (Yeah, that's not happening now).
I'm still finishing 2.5 Cable Guy and the other works I have in the fire, but right now everything has ceased until I can get Catfished done. Unfortunately, I'll need to change the dates on the preorder and release by 1 month. Please hang in there, it's coming, I promise. Thank you all for your support and understanding.
Much Love,
Steff
