Hey Folks,
Yesterday, I went to D2D and found I already had an author page set up. That was kind of neat. Then I realized hardly any of my books were grouped together. Most of my novels were grouped with my short stories in “Other Books.”
I’d failed to put the series tags and numbers on actual series, and the other books were just all over the place.
So I put series tags and numbers on the books that are in actual series. Then I started lumping all the mysteries together into a Mystery “series” (group), SF into an SF group, etc. until I had all of my novels, novellas and short story collections done.
That was a lengthy process (3+ hours). From now on I’ll be careful to put each major work in a series or group when I publish it.
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Okay, since I screwed up the link yesterday, here it is again (grin):
If you haven’t visited the Writers Resources page recently at http://harveystanbrough.com/writer-resources I suggest you take a look. Some great stuff over there. (Thanks for the heads-up, Scott.)
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Fairly early this morning I decided to bring my publisher website (StoneThreadPublishing.com) up to date. That ate up a few hours. Eventually, probably, clicking a book cover on my main author website will bring up the page for that novel or collection on my publisher site.
Then when I went up for breakfast, my bride asked innocently whether I’d ever transferred ownership of Confessions of a Professional Psychopath from my persona, Eric Stringer, to myself.
Well, no, I hadn’t. But I have now. I revised the metadata in both documents, revised the promo document, created a new cover and uploaded the whole mess to D2D, Smashwords, Amazon and BundleRabbit.
And that’s the day up to about 11 a.m. Whew! Then to the PO, then back to revising the publisher and author websites with the new Confessions cover and description and some other things.
And so will go the rest of the day. But I have to tell you, I’m alreay feeling withdrawal pangs and jonesing to write something. So my original plan to carry my sloth impression through the weekend probably will fall by the wayside.
Talk with you again soon.
Of Interest
See “Why Small Towns Are So Perfect for Crime Fiction” at https://crimereads.com/why-small-towns-are-so-perfect-for-crime-fiction/. These posts are notoriously short, but there’s still a little food for thought in this one.
See “My Challenge” at https://www.deanwesleysmith.com/my-challenge/. I gotta say I love it.
See “What Christmas Songs Can Teach a Writer” at http://mbyerly.blogspot.com/2018/12/what-christmas-songs-can-teach-writer.html. She omitted Elvis’ version of “Blue Christmas.” She included the emotion-wrenching “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” but kind’a missed the point, IMHO. Anyway, more food for thought.
See “What I learned About Writing from Space 1999” at https://lindamayeadams.com/2019/01/04/what-i-learned-about-writing-from-space-1999/.
Fiction Words: XXXX
Nonfiction Words: 389 (Journal)
So total words for the day: 389
Writing of (novel, tentative title)
Day 1…… XXXX words. Total words to date…… XXXX
Total fiction words for the month……… 1628
Total fiction words for the year………… 1628
Total nonfiction words for the month… 3810
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 3810
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 5438
Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date………………………… X
Calenday Year 2019 Novellas to Date…………………… X
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date……… X
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)………………………………………… 37
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)……………………………………… 7
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)……………………… 193
Short story collections…………………………………………………… 31