Because yesterday was a solemn holiday and I didn't do any marketing, here's my Monday Marketing post on a Tuesday. Tada!
This week, Early Grave is up for grabs. We'll see if FB allows me to do much of anything this week or whether I'm going to need to rethink my marketing strategy. Anyway...
I know I usually market on Monday, and I could today, too, but it's Memorial Day and it just doesn't feel right to be out there pimping books on this day.
Enjoy your day today and try to take a moment to remember why you're able to celebrate any holiday - the men and women who gave their lives to keep America free.
Good morning. I'm not quite up to speed this morning. I think it's Week 21. :shrug: Anyway, here goes...
I wrote stuff this week. I managed four days in a row, but then I fell off the wagon and didn't write for three days. Blerg. I did get 3437 words out, so I'm not kicking myself. Not hard anyway. I'll write tonight if I have to stay up late doing it. (No, I still have to write at night. My creativity doesn't wake up until after 5pm. It sucks, but there it is.) As of now, my WIP is up to about 27500 words. For the record, this is a book I started writing 4 years ago (almost to the day* as it turned out). I got to 20378 words before I stopped.
Marketing was pretty much a bust this week. FB cracked down on me and I was only able to make one or two posts a day before it shut me down. Bastards. I did manage to move 25 copies of Natural Causes... which is kind of pitiful. Not sure what I'll do this coming week.
Not much reading occurred.
It was a slightly active week this week. Mostly, I messed with the gardens. I also did some cleaning and shopping stuffs. I didn't bother to weigh myself. Who needs that kind of negativity? ;o)
The gardens are doing well. Everything in the greenhouse seems to be thriving. I gave them all a healthy drink of nettle tea a couple days ago, which I guess they like. It's supposedly full of nutrients. Stinks to high heaven, but nobody ever promised homemade plant food would smell good. I have two little tomatoes and plenty of tomato flowers, so yay. The carrots in pot #1 are getting taller. Carrot pots #2 & #3 need thinning again. The potato plants are HUGE. Pedro is a monster. I just hope they're growing tubers underneath all that greenery.
The foxes are back. I watched one for quite a few minutes yesterday. It was a little fox and I think it was practicing hunting. It said there, staring into the grass beside the neighbor's driveway and tilting its head back and forth like it was hearing something yummy. Then it got bored and trotted away.
I chatted with a neighbor who told me they had a fawn in their yard the other day. I'm totally jealous. But still, it means the fawning has begun, so yay. Not sure which doe is post-pregnant yet. It's not Sissy - she's still fat pregnant. Fingers crossed that soon I'll have baby deers on my trail cam.
It was my annibirfsary week. We ate a boatload of cake. Other than that, not much celebrating happened. I mean, kisses and snuggles and all the good things that come with being with the one you love for 22 of your 56 years, but no prezzies or singing.
Other than that, not much going on around here. What's going on around there?
*I started writing the book on 5/13/22 - wrote words for about a month and gave up. I picked the book back up again on 5/12/26. I didn't plan that. It was just the book that called to me.
Ack! I meant to post this way earlier... like this morning... but I got distracted, which is the story of my life. Anyway...
I took the camera down during the day and then I keep forgetting to put it back out. To my dismay, as soon as I took the camera down, the foxes started showing up again. Grrr.
Anyway, here are some shots I got from earlier in the week:
Rocky Raccoon on my porch, snacking on suet crumbs.
On the left is Sissy. Next to her is her son, Scout. The butt in the background behind Scout is Lumpy - Sissy's mom.
I'm not sure who this is, but she's pretty interested in the camera.
I hope to have more pics next Saturday, so tune in next time.
FB is screwing with me again. I get maybe one... two posts before they slap me for 'spamming'. Turds. And there's a spot where you can complain, but it says right on the window that it doesn't do anything to change their minds. It's just for training purposes or some such nonsense. Blarg.
I'm writing again, which is a good thing. Unfortunately, writing again means wrist pain again, which isn't such a good thing. Yay for Blue Emu.
The foxes seem to disappear when I put the trail cam up. I only see them when it's not out there taking pictures. Camera shy little buggers.
Pizza is awesome.
So's coffee.
The weather is pissing me off. A couple days ago, it was so hot I couldn't stand myself. This morning, I had to put on socks, sweats, and a sweater because I'm chilly. Make up your damn mind, Mother Nature.
I saw a cute thing online yesterday. Down in Texas, someone with a door cam got photos of an armadillo playing with their dog's tennis ball. Cute! Generally, armadillos are cute, if somewhat stupid. They have baby armadillos at the wildlife rescue I follow on FB. Again, cute! Did you know that every member of each armadillo litter is genetically identical to its litter mates?
Nature is awesome, too.
Of course, nature's also a bitch sometimes.
And with that, it's time for me to go call Mom. Have a great day everyone! :hugs:
Today's book offering is Natural Causes (Dennis Haggarty Mystery #2). It can be read without the first one, but it's even better with it. (And ACCIDENTAL DEATH is pretty cheap.) Jus' sayin'.
Here we are again at another week. Let's see what happened.
I wrote. I still don't want to talk about it much. Suffice it to say, I wrote 4 nights in a row and ended up with around 2800 new words, all on one WIP, so there ya go. I'm not celebrating, in case this is an anomaly. The hardest part about writing after so many months away is retraining my fingers to type as much as I want for as long as I want. Derp.
I marketed. A little. Blink moved a whole 17 copies. Woot. Not sure what this week will bring. I'm at the end of a 90 day KDP reup, so this week might be a little iffy.
Reading still isn't a thing, but I made a little progress with Rudy.
In baking news, yesterday, Hubs made me a cake from scratch - yellow cake, chocolate frosting with a layer of strawberry jam in the middle. Yum. It's not the prettiest thing, but it's been more than 20 years since he made a cake, so I'm not harshing him too much about it. He was going to make the frosting, too, but after the cake wouldn't come out of the pan and ended up kinda roached, he left the frosting to me. Hey, it tastes good and he tried, so that's all that matters.
On the activity front, I wasn't. I did some garden stuff and I went shopping. Meh. Didn't bother weighing myself. Weight: Fat.
The trail cam has been fun. See yesterday's post. The new mower is awesome. So's the new greenhouse. Shopping for the win. Woot.
The garden is growing right along in the greenhouse. I have one little grape tomato growing and one little Early Girl tomato. The green peppers are trying to come back from getting munched, as are the black cherry and the persimmon.
Yesterday, I cut my hair. Short. It was bugging me, so off it went. It looks pretty cute, if I do say so myself. No, there aren't any pics.
Speaking of cake... Today is our anniversary. 22 years. Go, us! And tomorrow's my birthday. 56 years. Go, me! (Yes, people shouldn't leave important dates lying around the internet, but we make sure we never use those dates in any security questions or passwords, so there ya are.) We aren't doing anything for either. We don't give each other cards or gifts anymore. I think that stuff stopped about 15 years ago. We're happy with each other and celebrate each other every day, so no prezzies are necessary.
And that's it for me today. What's been up with you lately?
