Marketing Monday - Rumor Has It

Amidst the throes of garden woes, the show must go on - which means Marketing Monday.  This week, I'm putting RUMOR HAS IT out there for your free book downloading pleasure. Enjoy!  

Starting today, RUMOR HAS IT is totally free. (Always free with Kindle Unlimited.) Step back in time with this gritty noir mystery now. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08ZNXQKPC

And if you enjoy it, please leave a review, then head over to buy the next book in the series - THICKER THAN WATER.  It'll be a win for you and it'll help fund my fight against the critter noshing my plants.  

Sunday Update - Whatever Week It Is

 Hey all, I know I'm extremely late.  In fact, I'm taking 5 in the middle of dinner to type this.  Suffice it to say, there isn't much to talk about.  Well, except for the fact that some bastard critter saw fit to climb onto the deck and ravage my garden.  I spent the morning moving all the remaining pots - some alive, some possibly dead - into the smoking porch and the garage.  After that, I wasn't motivated to do anything.

I've since ordered a small greenhouse to put on the deck for plant protection and a game camera to see if I can catch the little bastard.  I'd kill it with my bare hands if I could.  All that work... Blerg.

Anyway, I hope your day was good.  Feel free to talk about it in comments.  :hugs:

Totally Forgot Thursday

 LOL, Totally Forgot Thursday should be a thing and it should always be posted on Friday.  I could make it a list of things I totally forgot, which would be long... if I could remember to write down all the things I forgot.

Pedro Potato fell over yesterday.  I totally didn't think about staking him up and how does one stake up a potato plant that's already a couple feet tall without staking potential potatoes??  I managed it, I think, but time will tell whether I harshed any spuds.  Anyway, he seems fine this morning, so no harm done, I guess.

I went out of my way to hit the other local thrift store and while they did have a lot of books, I only found two I wanted.  What a waste of gas.  The books, you ask?  The Surgeon by Tess Garretson and a three book volume of 87th Precinct novels by Ed McBain.  Cost?  75c.  I would've made out like a bandit if I'd been into Danielle Steel or James Patterson, but alas, I'm not a fan of either of those authors.

Sawyer woke us up this morning at 4am.  He was trying to jump to the top of the big chest of drawers.  He missed... he always misses... but he managed to knock the bottle of antacids on the floor.  Scared the crap out of himself and woke us both up rather rudely.  Sometimes... to the moon, cat.

I hate when I get an email touting 'free shipping' and it's only on order over a certain amount.  This last one seemed like it was for any order and only for a limited time, but it's their regular free shipping amount.  Dirty pool, chaps.  That's one way to get me to not buy anything from you ever.

Sawyer's being a picky eater right now.  Turd.  I mean, Finn's always been a picky eater, but Finn also doesn't bitch when he doesn't get fed his favorite foods.  He simply chooses not to eat what he doesn't like.  Sawyer?  Nope.  'FEED ME... I don't LIKE that... FEED ME SOMETHING ELSE!'  He's my problem child.  We do love him, but ugh.  (And before you wonder, he's fine.  He's also not in danger of starving to death.)

Ugh, I meant to take a shower yesterday, but I wasn't in the mood.  I figured I could take a shower when I got up this morning.  This morning?  Thunderstorms.  Blerg.  That'll teach me.

Okay, that's probably enough out of me.  Any snippets of wisdom from you?  Anything you totally forgot that you'd like to mention?  Comment away.

Monday Marketing - Wish Hits The Fan

Good morning!  It's time again for another rousing round of Monday Marketing, with your host - B.E. Sanderson.  

Heh.  Yeah, I've been up since 4, the coffee isn't cutting it, and I'm a little loopy.  Anyway, it IS Monday and it is also time to market.  Today, WISH HITS THE FAN is up on the block.

Starting today, WISH HITS THE FAN is totally free. (Always free with Kindle Unlimited.) Get this snarky, fun, paranormal suspense now! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075C7FCXG

This is the one that wraps the whole series up.  There are thrills and chills and spills.  There are difficult choices to make and a world to save.  Questions are answered and lives hang in the balance.  What's not to love there?  Trust me.  Go grab a copy while you can.

Sunday Update - 2026 Week 15

 Here we are again at the beginning of another week.  Time to look at last week.

Book marketing was done.  I moved 52 copies of Fertile Ground.  From previous marketing, I had page reads of Dying Embers and Song of Storm and Shroud.  Oh, and Wish Hits the Fan goes on freebie starting tomorrow.

Reading is still going slow, but I am reading, so I have that going for me.  I'm about a third of the way through Leadership by Rudy Giuliani.  It's really interesting.

No baking.  Which is good because my EWA doesn't need the calories.  

I was pretty active this week.  I did a hard target walk, vacuumed, worked on the deck garden, and planted trees in the woods.  I haven't weighed myself, though, so whether any of that is starting to shrink my ass?  Dunno.  

Speaking of gardening, Pedro Potato is getting tall.  I have another pot with tiny potato plants coming up, too.  One tomato and two of the peppers have flowers.  The carrots are growing right along and need thinning again.  Then there are the trees.  They all seem to be doing well.  The one unknown tree has been identified as a persimmon, so yay.  Thank you to whatever squirrel or bird planted that seed in my garden last year.  

Speaking of trees, Cecil and Clyde went into the woods.  They're my oldest two cedars and it was time.  When I turned Cecil out of his pot, it was obvious he needed more space.  He was getting rootbound in there.  Clyde probably could've spent another year on the deck, but like I said, it was time.  I can still see Cecil from the house, so yay.  Fingers crossed that nature doesn't harsh my babies.

Pregnancy abounds in the deer herd, so yay.  Lumpy is still rolling along, but does not appear pregnant, which is a mercy.  We also have phoebes nesting under the deck and chickadees using our birdhouse.  I love Spring.

Other than that, life is pretty boring here.  What's up with you?

Thursday This n That

On a short continuance from yesterday, let me just say that I did not have roaming hippos in Columbia on my bingo card. (Was talking about it here a HIPPO violation?  ROFL)

Yesterday, I removed the 'feather bed mimic' topper thing from our bed.  The dang thing was lumpy as all get out.  That and the constant fluffing of it were getting to be a pain in the everywhere.  Last night, I did have a devil of a time getting to sleep, but I must've slept better.  We'll see how it goes.

Getting old blows.

Okay, I'm old.  (Yeah, yeah, not as old as some.)  I was thinking the other day about my grandmother and how she was.  I realized I will never be as old in my head as my grandmother was.  Then again, Grandma was never as old as I thought she was.  Hearing stories from Mom about her tell me that I was mistaken about her on several points.  Oh, she was not a pleasant woman and would never be mistaken for the warm and cuddly grandmas some people have.  I was talking with my sister and we agreed that Grandma was a bitch.  But really when Grandma was younger, she was a tough, pants-wearing, hard-working chick who liked parties and doing things women weren't supposed to do back then.  Maybe she was bitchy because as she got old, she couldn't be the woman she knew herself to be, which would make anyone bitchy, I guess.

You hear all the time about men withholding stuff from the wives during a divorce, but I just read a case where it was the woman.  She's in jail now until she forks over the stuff that the court already said belonged to her ex-husband or pays him the value of those things.  Equal rights for women means being equal in this shit, too.  Good for the judge.  Feminists wanted everything equal, where there ya go.  Choke on it.

Pedro Potato is getting tall.  Go, Pedro!  I'm not sure if he's actually making potatoes under there.  The only way to tell is to dig him up, the thought of which makes me sad.  It'll have to be done eventually, but until then, I'll enjoy him as the healthy plant he is.

We had a hell of a storm last night.  Thankfully, I'd already moved all my pots under the eaves, so they got at least some protection.  At around 2am, it got really nasty and I wondered if I did indeed hear a train in the distance.  (We have no tracks anywhere near here... by train, I mean tornado.)  I checked the yard this morning and all is well.

And on that note, I have to go make my daily call to Mom.  Have a great day everyone.  Peace out.

Wild and WTF on Wednesday

I see a lot of wild and WTF things on FB and X, so I thought I'd share...

Someone tried to use the phrase 'molon labe' - basically an ancient Greek phrase meaning 'Come. Take.' (referencing gun rights) - but autocorrect changed it to 'melon lube'... ROFL.

Someone made an AI photo of Trump eating McDonald's with Jesus.  Now, there's a section of people with their undies in a wad.

I saw a video of a cat whose owner was deaf.  The cat had learned that meowing doesn't work, so it figured out how to signal its owner by tapping his arm and then tapping its mouth when it wanted treats.  

Just now, someone shared a video out of Japan - a JAWS bath bomb.  It looks like a boat.  Then you drop it into the water, it starts to dissolve and turns the water blue, then it starts to bubble.  Then it releases what looks like blood and a shark's head floats to the service.  The head has a piece of boat in its mouth.  Too funny.

Another video... Beagle terrifies alligator and makes it run away.

No, the IDF didn't put 60 P-people in a garbage truck.  The P-people used a garbage truck to try to sneak into somewhere to do bad things and the IDF caught them.

Some dude (in Pakistan, I believe) said woman shouldn't be (aren't allowed to be?) educated. Fuck that shit.

The pope is more concerned with how Muslims are being treated than with how Christians are being treated.  Let that sink in.

Diets are now racist.  

Yale gathering applauds a guy who said America deserved 9/11.

Japan loves us.  And they have a word for Leftist nutjob - Payoku.  Funny, I never thought I'd love Japan more than I could ever love Australia, but one is becoming awesome and the other is becoming a leftist shithole.  So there ya are.

And with that, I'll let ya go do whatever it is you do out there in the world.  Me?  I'm doing marketing posts and then I have to clean.  Woot.