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Recording the adventure of being an indie authour. |
| Still trying to get my book into paperback. The person I hired for the formatting failed miserably. So, learning how to format it myself. Lesson learned. Never use anyone on Fivver who isn't a Level 1 or 2. |
| I'm sitting in the waiting room at the garage. Head down, typing away on my NEO. Shawn the mechanic/owner comes in. "So whatcha doin'? "Working on my fourth book for the year." Type. Type. Type. "Really. Whatcha readin'?" I grin to myself. "I'm not. I'm writing it." "Really!" Shawn the mechanic turns and walks out the door. He immediately comes back in. "What are you writin' about?" "It's historical fiction." He gives me the thumbs up and leaves again. Takes one step out the door, comes straight back in. "About what?" "My Uncle Henri when he was in the Civil War." "Cool!!!" That was this afternoon's conversation while I waited for Shawn to work on Mom's car. It's funny how a simple conversation, filled with enthusiasm, can get your creative juices flowing. In an hour, I wrote over 2,000 words on my story. :) |
| Wow! My book sales have been really low all summer. I've been running Amazon ads and discovered that in June, in under 5 days 655 ads ran for "The Ghosts of Springhollow." This month, I did another week's worth of ads and in under 5 days - less than 100 ads have run. That explains a lot! Last month, I had sales - this month - my sales have been made off-line. If you're not familiar with how the ads work, it goes like this. Ads run whenever someone types in a keyword that's in your list for your book. So, last month, people were putting in those keywords like crazy. This month, hardly anyone is. It'll be interesting to see what happens in August. |
| It's been forever since I've been on here. I've been working on "Revenge of the Turd," and "The Squirrel and the Frenchman." I'm blogging the rough draft (and boy is it rough) of "Revenge" on my blog: http://picklesandpipermysteries.home.blog I'll probably put "Squirrel" on here. "Squirrel" is my first attempt at historical fiction. It's based on my great, great, great Uncle Henri Wehrung, also known as "The Frenchman," and his time in the Civil War. He really had it tough. The other soldiers didn't like him because he was French and they refused to follow his orders. He was mustered in a Sergeant because he'd been one in the French military, but went out a Private. He got so sick of the brats that served under him that he asked to be relieved of duty. They docked him for it. Yesterday, my cousin Paul (retired military) helped me work out some details about Uncle Henri's service time. In 1977, I got copies of his war records. Paul was gobsmacked that none of his superiors backed him. Which means they were as bad as the brats who were under my uncle. For me, it's added a whole new dimension to the Civil War. Anyway, I'm telling the story through the eyes of a squirrel. :) He becomes my uncle's buddy. :) Yesterday, I picked up a couple books to help improve my writing: The Rural Setting Thesaurus and The Emotion Thesaurus. I wished I'd had these books when I was writing my other books! They're priceless! And not too bad in the Kindle edition, only $5.99. Totally worth it. |
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