At long last, after almost 2 decades of visiting and revisiting the prose of book 2 of the Prophecy Archives series, I think I am ready to finally say the book is complete. I put out a massive effort over the course of the past year to perform a final edit and voice an audiobook version of my story. I am very proud of the final product and happy to have finished the project.
This time around I went through Amazon's self-publishing service. Whatever my feelings about Amazon as a corporation might be, I must admit that their kindle direct publishing service is fantastic. At least, it is fantastic from my point of view. Having previously attempted self-publishing when it was an uncommon thing to do, I have a lot of bad memories of the supply chain hangups involved. This service streamlines all of that and allowed me to focus solely on the process of producing a book. The only caveat is that I am only really allowed to sell the book through Amazon.
That link is another massive (in my opinion) benefit of working through Amazon. I can post a single link which includes all 4 parts of the book I created. Not only that, but it also includes the Kindle (ebook) versions and the Audible (audiobook) versions. This is a very nice-to-have perk.
My final thoughts on finishing are not unusual. There are many aspects of the story that I reviewed along the way which I would love to change or improve to some esoteric degree. There are writers who have proven themselves to be more talented at certain aspects of presentation. I have done the best I can and I must now recognize that it is not perfect and it is ok. It is enough. I can't burn another decade in the pursuit of a perfection I will never attain. For whatever rough textures you might encounter as a reader, please know that I am likely aware of it. Despite my many varied and intense efforts, I've not completely sanded these imperfections away. I don't know why I feel compelled to recognize this other than the hope that if some other writer reads this for some reason they might hear this encouragement: do your best, but also be able to accept your best as good enough even when it isn't the best that exists.
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