How the hell am I gonna publish FOUR BOOKS in ONE MONTH???

I’m about to publish four books in one month. Three of them are all due on the same day.

I’m going to try really hard to get one or two of them done before the deadline so they don’t all literally come out on the same day. And you might be wondering, Kate, how does this even happen? How do you accidentally publish three books in one day? Four in the same month?

That is called procrastination, my friends.

Amazon lets you schedule books out a year in advance now, and I keep doing this even though I shouldn’t. I scheduled four books a year out. Three of them landed on the same day, and the fourth I scheduled right after book one in that series came out because I wanted it available for preorder. My genius plan was to finish them early and move the preorder dates up so they’d release in June, September, December, and then only have one in February.

That did not happen.

If you don’t know me, I’m Kate. I’ve been publishing since 2019, publishing successfully since 2020, and teaching authors how to market their books since 2023. All of that while still writing and earning from my own books. Yes, February was low. Rates went down, everything dipped, and I also took a break from marketing my own books, which is never a good idea. Market your damn books.

The Two Book Threes That Matter Most

One of the books I need to finish is the third book in my Kane Billionaire series. It’s my top-selling series right now because billionaire marriage of convenience sells. It’s easy to position, easy to market, and readers love it. That one absolutely has to get done.

I’ve already delayed books in this series before. I even had to delete and republish book two because I rushed it so hard that it wasn’t edited to my standards. Readers hated it. There were major issues with the plot and editing, so I pulled it and republished in December. That process alone derailed my ability to move forward on book three.

I do have a finished first draft of A Fair Arrangement, which is book three. It’s printed out in a literal Trapper Keeper because that’s how I edit. I print the manuscript, mark it up, and rewrite as I go. But this one is rough. I wrote it over months instead of in a tight sprint, so there are entire arcs that need rewriting. When I draft quickly, I know every detail in my head. When I draft slowly, things get messy. This one is messy.

The second book three I need to finish is in my monster romance series. Book one came out in 2023. Book two came out in 2024. Book three should have come out in 2024. It didn’t, because I got stuck. Something was missing, and I couldn’t figure out what until halfway through 2025. I finally realized the hero wasn’t monster enough. I fixed that, and now I actually care about the story again.

Here’s the thing I’ve learned after seven years of publishing: three books in a series is a game changer. With my first successful series, book one made a few hundred dollars at launch. Book two improved that. But when book three came out, the series more than tripled its monthly revenue. Three books builds momentum. It builds read-through. It builds trust. That’s why finishing these third books matters more than starting something shiny and new.

And yes, there’s also the Amazon factor. If you push preorders too many times or cancel releases, you lose your preorder privileges. I’ve lost them before. It’s a nightmare to get them back. I am not doing that again.

The Cowboy Series and My Actual Plan

The final book on the March schedule is Like the Rein, book two in my Billionaire Cowboy series. It’s based on the sport of reining, which I actually do. I have a reining horse named Fancy. I love her. I am objectively not great at riding her, but my trainer competes on her and she’s even won money. Not enough to cover show costs, but still.

I wrote book one and then had to rewrite huge sections because I got so deep into the horse and sport details that the romance barely existed. It was not believable that these characters fell in love because I was too busy explaining reining patterns. So now with book two, I’m being careful not to repeat that mistake.

Right now it’s about 45,000 words. It will likely end up around 100,000 to 110,000 words based on my recent books. It’s a very rough draft. But it has an outline, and I know I can sit down and push through it if I have to.

My actual plan is to finish Like the Rein first and get it completely off my plate. Then I’ll move to Learn to Hate You, the monster romance. That one is my favorite world, my favorite characters, my favorite everything. It’s not my highest earner, but passion counts for something when you’re staring at a manuscript for hours. I wrote book one in that series in three or four days because I loved it so much. Now that I’ve fixed what was broken in book three, I think I can finish it quickly.

After that, I’ll tackle A Fair Arrangement and do the heavy editing it needs. And if there’s time left, I’ll draft the first book in another series I had originally planned to release after the Kane books were finished.

What This Actually Looks Like Behind the Scenes

This is partly an accountability post, but it’s also a reality check. Being an author is not just aesthetic writing sessions and glamorous screenshots of dashboards. It can be stressful. If you deal with ADHD, autism, depression, or any other executive function challenges, it can be really hard to stay on track. Sometimes you avoid the project that feels hardest and chase the one that feels like candy.

Right now I’m not allowed to eat the candy. I have to finish dinner first. And dinner is the books I’ve been promising readers for over a year, in some cases closer to two.

I’ve started sending bonus scenes and early access content to my mailing list because I learned the hard way how important that is. With my first series, I relied on a Facebook group instead of building an email list. When the second series launched, no one knew about it. No list means no automatic sales. That mistake cost me.

After March, once these four books are done, I’ll shift focus to projects my agency wants me to finish. We’re preparing to go on submission with a nonfiction book and possibly some romance projects for traditional publishing. But until these March deadlines are handled, none of that matters.

This is what it really looks like to juggle multiple series, marketing, teaching, and writing at the same time. It’s messy. It’s stressful. But at the end of the day, you just have to sit down and get the work done.

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