I was trying to figure out how to make a mud storm interesting, and then I remembered that this is a fantasy series. Duh. Make it sapient and malevolent!
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02/04/2020 Book Report.
Today I figured out how to compile books into Kindle format from Scrivener! It was very exciting, because for about ten alarming minutes I was starting to worry that I had reached that point where computers were now weird and scary and didn’t make any sense. Fortunately, I was able to reset my brain in time, and I even know how to keep my damned italics italicized and my bloody underlines underlined in the final compiled form. This is very welcome news for me!
I also updated Scrivener itself. And I’ll probably have to update it again, when they go to version 3 this year. Ach, well, at least then it’ll be a business expense.
02/23/2020 Snippet, ANSTEORRA RANGERS
Fascinating thing, the North American Monsoon. Some, hah, earthy language in the text, but I feel that it’s justified. If anything, it’s probably bowdlerized. Remember: this will be on Patreon this month for subscribers.
Continue reading 02/23/2020 Snippet, ANSTEORRA RANGERS02/03/2020 Book Report.
Today I signed up for Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. I also established a checking account for publishing-related expenses. That seemed the smartest way to keep everything straight from the very start. So far, everything seems to be going according to plan.
Creatively, I finished revising the old story last night and am now finally getting around to working on another one in this universe. It’ll be this month’s Patreon offering, too. Efficiency, that is. …Hrm, I kind of need to join an online writer’s circle, or something. Yeah, that sort of thing makes sense now. Go figure.
02/20/2020 Snippet, IN HOC SIGNO VINCES [last]
Yeah, this is the last one. Tomorrow I start working on another short story, set in this universe. I’m in a decent place where maybe I can turn the whole thing into a collection of short stories; it might make for a good stretch goal.
Continue reading 02/20/2020 Snippet, IN HOC SIGNO VINCES [last]02/02/2020 Book Report.
Today we are reading up on Print on Demand books. Essentially, I’m trying lock down what the price of the e-book should be, and what to charge for a print-on-demand version. The e-book price looks pretty straightforward, but calculating the Print-on-Demand price is a little tricky.
On the bright side, if I can get (presumably) Amazon to ‘sell’ me PoD vouchers then I can use them to reward higher tiers on the Kickstarter. I also have to work out a smaller reward for the lower tiers: I’m thinking a wallpaper, but that might mean more expenses. In case you were wondering, spreadsheets are amazing for pointing out the persnickety details of the stuff you were previously just hand-waving…
Book of the Week: Business for the Right-Brained.
I picked up M.C.A. Hogarth’s Business for the Right-Brained (A Guide for Artists, Writers, Musicians, Dancers, Crafters, And All the Other Dreamers) last year, and have just started actually reading it (now that I pretty much have to). It’s a good book. It has plenty of useful suggestions, beginning with that you remember that you’re now doing three jobs, not one. Just thinking about some of this stuff is clarifying things for me, which is very helpful. Check it out, if you think that you might need to.
Moe Lane
02/01/20202 Snippet, IN HOC SIGNO VINCES.
Getting close to the end on this one. It is improved, methinks. Much improved.
Continue reading 02/01/20202 Snippet, IN HOC SIGNO VINCES.02/01/2020 Book Report (calculating RoI on Kickstarter).
This morning I’ve been grappling with an interesting question: should I Kickstart FROZEN DREAMS?
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This is another ‘nothing really to report’ report. Today was a day for a routine meeting with the school and getting the monthly Patreon stuff ready to publishing and having the kids go to the trampoline place where they could jump on trampolines. Oh, and I worked some more on that short story, because I kind of want to see where it ends up. February starts tomorrow, and so do the production bookmarks. We can work with that.