Today was another fantastic day!! I manged to get 4,800 words done!! Woot!!
At this rate, I’ll have the 50,000 word goal reached long before the end of the month. I’m actually aiming for 60,000 words myself. I’m confident I can hit that goal before the end of the month as well.
Now, I’m starting a new job which will keep me away from home for about 12 hours a day. I’m going to do my best not to let this keep me from writing on a daily basis. It’s a habit I desperately need to cultivate. Practice makes permanent, and I really need to keep practicing.
I plan to self publish the novel I’m working on too. It’s in its final stage so it won’t take much to do the final tweaking and get it published with the Kindle platform. Yes, I’m going to use Amazon again even though the book creator is a bit of a pain to work with. I need cover art before I do anything so I may go with someone else eventually, I don’t know yet. I need to focus on getting the novel done first.
I hope everyone has a great day and see you on the flipside; don’t forget your towel and sonic screwdriver!!
It’s been a while since I update my website over on sitey, but I finally did it. I need to tweak a few things still, but all the links to my book, Crimson Knight, are now active. This makes me feel better. I still have a ways to go to get everything the way I want it, over here and over there, but it’s in the making so Yay Me!!
Anyone else have issues with keeping their websites updated?? Feel free to share your story/ies here!
See you on the flipside and don’t forget your towel and sonic screwdriver!!
Crimson Knight was successfully rereleased by Kindle Direct Publishing earlier in the week. Several days before that, I was successful at getting the ebook version finally edited and formatted properly so it could be published as well. It’s now live on Amazon.com along with the print version.
Over the last few days, I’ve begun work on producing the audio book version of Crimson Knight as many of my friends listen to audio books and requested one of my book. I don’t speak as well as I once did now that I have dentures and a fake palette covering most of the roof of my mouth so doing the narrative myself is out of the question. I posted the job on Audible, Amazon’s audio book production arm, and I actually sent a proposal to a narrator after listening to some of the narrators’ audition recordings the same day I posted the job.
She turned me down. I began to worry about finding someone much less figuring out how to pay them. I wondered if I should even pursue this avenue. I let it go a day and then, early yesterday morning, I got a message from Audible saying someone had sent me an audition recording. I listened to it, and I was amazed by the man’s talent. I read his profile, and it said he’d just completed his 50th book on Audible! I began to think he was out of my league!
Since he’d sent a message with his audition recording wanting to know more about the book, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to talk to him a bit. We exchanged messages, and he was very understanding of this being my first attempt at creating an audio book and working with Audible. Long story short, I listened to two more audition recordings from two other narrators, and I decided to go with the first guy.
We have a contract now and are moving forward with the project. I will get the first 15 minutes of the story in about a week and after going over that with the narrator, I won’t get anything again until the initial recording is complete. My projected release date is 10 May, 2019 – the day before my birthday.
I am learning a lot from this process, and I’m feeling a bit more confident with it. I’m going to be editing cover art for the audio book next.
Below is the link to the print and ebook versions of Crimson Knight. If you do decide to grab a copy, please leave a review! I don’t care if it’s bad or good, I welcome all feedback!
See you on the flipside and don’t forget your towel and sonic screwdriver!
Actually, I did several things today – I’ve been quite productive.
I added the first two chapters of my one and only romance story(Southern Romance) – a novella – on Wattpad. You can view it here: https://www.wattpad.com/539886618
I also completed a floral doily whose pattern if from around 1920 or something. I won’t be doing another one for a while because I had to work with crochet thread and hook that were both small. My hand cramped, and I got eye strain. Uck.
I also completed a crocheted trinket box that, thankfully, used yarn instead of crochet thread.
I’m starting on a shawl tomorrow as well as continuing with a filet crochet project that may end up being a bedspread. I haven’t decided yet. Yes, I’ll post a picture of it when it’s done. 🙂
Crocheting and writing are my two main loves, the rest just fall in line depending on my mood at the time. 🙂
See you on the flipside and don’t forget your towel and sonic screwdriver!!
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