Hello Kelsey!

I have a complete 1st draft of a scifi novel, with 1st edit delivered and in rewrite now. Planning on diving into this after the New Year in earnest with a complete change from first person to third person omniscient, and other suggestions from my editor. I haven't touched this in over a year! Getting itchy fingers. Urgently typing away on a historical/political non-fiction book 1st Draft (trying to get it out before the midterm election 2026 - and have been cutting it down to the bone to make pamphlet size). 10 nearly complete manuscripts on various non-fiction topics are sitting on my hard drive. One example is a book on model railroading and building my first layout (which I haven't built yet - so book not complete as a result). Other writing and social media: I have 2 Substacks that I write under a pseudonym with about 4000 readers. I have a Bluesky identity associated with my Substacks that has 13,500 followers - I curate news and long form things that align with the theme and publicise my Substack stories there. This is all political nonfiction. My plan is to launch an Indy publishing 'company' with the publication of my first book - probably the pamphlet under a nonfiction imprint, and the scifi novel under a fiction imprint. I have hundreds of book ideas, and I will be dead before I complete all the ideas I have that are worth doing. Making up for lost time. As for my writing / publishing needs: 1. I'm great at descriptions of settings and technology, of action; I need a lot of work on the soft emotional internal feelings and emotions, as well as more sensitivity to cultural biases etc. 2. I've published some low content things via Amazon a few years ago, mainly to get some understanding of the process. I have several books on the publishing process, but I need to really deep dive into the steps and timing of all of it. When do I buy ISBNs? When do I register with the Library of Congress. When do I get outside Artists involved in doing the cover art, thumbnails, and different deliverables (paper back vs. hardback), and so on. 3. I'm a decent technical writer - and I took classes in college for that. I've not had any training in creative writing beyond literature courses at a basic level - so my focus needs to be on that side of things from an editing perspective more.