2025 Week 2... or the first full week of the year. Woot.
By now you're probably sick of me saying I haven't written. That's okay, I'm pretty sick of not writing myself. On a brighter note, I finally finished inputting the first round of edit notes and I have begun making another set of edit notes. This is the process. I'm shooting to have this done and published before Valentine's Day. We'll see if that actually happens. It would be a good thing, especially since 2/13 is my 10th anniversary of being a published author.
I spent a boatload of time on marketing this week. I finished the freebie thing for Fertile Ground and did the whole freebie thing for In Deep Wish. I moved over 315 books, some of them for actual $$ (okay, 301 were free). As sad as that sounds, this is already my third best January since I started selling books and it's only the 12th of the month. Monday starts a freebie thing for Ugly and the Beast. I need to get to work on some graphics for that.
Earlier this week, I actually finished reading a book. I haven't started a new one because... Well, I'm lazy.
Speaking of lazy, I haven't gotten any exercise this week. Unless you count shining the red dot for the kitties. Or stirring ingredients for baking.
Ah, baking... I made a chocolate oil cake covered in raspberry jam and vanilla frosting last Sunday. Yesterday, I did a batch of cinnamon rolls. Much stirring was involved, so I guess that's exercise. Heh. I might do pizza today. We'll see.
In weather news, we got about 5 inches of snow. And some freakin' cold temps. The temps are up a little, so the snow's melting. We lost satellite TV for a few hours. We lost satellite internet for... Oh, wait. We DIDN'T lose internet. At all. It didn't even slow down. Elon Musk is my hero. On the bright side, it's supposed to be bright and sunny for the next week or so. Fingers crossed it melts all the crap still on the roof. And on the roads... because no one has bothered to come down these 'publicly maintained' roads with a plow yet.
I think that's it. I'm a pretty boring person. All the interesting things go into my fiction and everything else is blah.
Have a great day today, wherever you are. And feel free to drop a comment, if you so desire.
Our snow is pretty much gone now. Big yay on having internet throughout. Elon Musk is the shizz! I've at least started Part 2 of RETRIBUTION. Progress. And since this is a really hard pass on the editing, I too hope before VD to be live. I need to get Only on the cover. I need to find the models for the cover. 😔 (that's a sigh)
ReplyDeleteWTG on the sales! Even if some were free. Hopefully, those will lead to actual sales and page reads. January has been better than December. I've pushed 40 books so far. Not great but hey, that's almost a week's worth of groceries.
Yummy food. Fun kitties. I need a nap. With is apropos of nothing you discussed.
Later, tater!