The Daily Journal, Thursday, June 27

In today’s Journal

* Quote of the Day
* Recap
* Daily diary
* Of Interest
* The numbers

Quote of the Day

“The … published book, is not the holy grail. The story, the thing that the writer has created, is the holy grail. Before publication of any kind. Because publication is a license.” Kristine Kathryn Rusch (see “Of Interest”)

KKR’s post today is nothing short of earth-shattering. Let s/he who has ears listen.
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I really thought I’d get the Critical Voice book finalized and distributed yesterday. Didn’t happen. So I’ll do that today.

Had trouble finding cover art. A guy sitting at a desk frustrated and tugging at his hair would be good.

But the more I think of it, the more I’m thinking of just slapping a black cover on it with the title in white letters and shipping it.

I got over myself, created a good cover (it might remind you of something else [grin]), created the promo doc and the Smashwords edition, then uploaded to D2D, Amazon, Smashwords and BundleRabbit.

And just like that, it’s off my desk.

The book is officially $8.99.

You can currently order it from Smashwords, or you can order directly from me by sending $8 (11% off) via PayPal to harveystanbrough@gmail.com. (Also send me an email to let me know which version you want: Kindle, Nook/Apple or PDF.)
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Rolled out at 2. I got all of the above done before 6. Now for a break up to the house.

My wife has all day off on Thursday from now on. Later today, if I have time, I’ll begin putting together the Stanbrough Monthly Sampler.

I’ll report on the rest of today in a recap tomorrow. Talk with you again then.

Of Interest

See “Business Musings: Rethinking The Writing Business (Part One)” at https://kriswrites.com/2019/06/26/business-musings-rethinking-the-writing-business-part-one/. This is so big, in my mind I’ve already preordered whatever book she comes up with out of this.

See Dan Baldwin’s “Worshipping False Gods” at http://prowriterswriting.com/worshipping-false-gods/. A truly great post.

Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 350 (Journal)
Total words for the day: 350

Writing of ()

Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXXX

Total fiction words for the month……… 45233
Total fiction words for the year………… 351338
Total nonfiction words for the month… 25420
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 180980
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 532318

Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date…………………… 7
Calendar Year 2019 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date… 1
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 44
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 194
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31