What's Going On

There has been minimal activity from iktaPOP, a circumstance which, hopefully, will subside.

iktaPOP has published only three books to date this year, and those three were intended (perhaps insanely) to be published the first week or two of the year, with the rest of the year devoted to catching up on the (definitely insane) schedule that had been laid out two years before.

While I'm not giving up on bringing unavailable public domain books to ebook format, circumstances are changing in the coming year, which, combined with how ill-considered my earlier ambitions were for the project, does mean that output will never be at the level I would prefer, at least while I can only afford to be a one-man operation.

For one thing, I've been aiming to get back to editing novels by indie authors. As things stand, for various reasons, I've only been doing edits for Sarah Hoyt the past few years.

But then the editing became even more my future. Raconteur Press recently announced that, in 2025, they are going to begin publishing novels, and also kids' adventure novels. I am the lead structural editor for both lines. Which is going to become a substantial part of my time, going forward.

In addition, my muse has stirred recently, so the writing hose will start flowing again. (And yes, I plan on doing some writing for Raconteur Press, as well, which will probably go out with full copyright, rather than under Free Culture licenses, but there are reasons I'll be okay with it in that context.) Many planned, half-written series are coming back to life in my mind, in addition to an X-rated adventure series that will be published under iktaPOP, but with a separate pen name.

Thus, between indie editing, editing for another publisher, and getting some focus on my own writing, I simply cannot count on publishing a novel a week from the public domain. Even when I had time to devote to it, that schedule rarely instantiated in reality. For the moment, I'm going to hope for two a month, but will aim for one a month and see if I can go over.

For the remainder of 2024, there may be more than two a month, particularly for October, but given how pear-shaped things have tended to go, I make no promises.