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Just had to cancel my Grammerly Premium subscription. It's only $144 a year but that's a lot of money now that I'm "on a fixed income." I have several yearly subscriptions I'll be cancelling when they come due, and I have gone back to the basic or free subscriptions on several other services. I'm still using more than I take in, but it's getting better. Thankfully, I have that cushion from the Publix stock. I'll get the hang of it pretty soon. Going to have to start splitting the grocery bill more carefully however, instead of just usually paying for everything myself. And we can conserve electricity and gas and water more carefully as well. Not much I can do about petrol prices...
Working on another Amish Romance plot. I was offered a job as a Western Romance ghost writer but they were only paying $1.8 per 100 words, which is nowhere near the $1 to $3 per word average price listed on my search. I refrained from telling them "you get what you pay for" and just politely declined. If I'm going to be paid pennies, I can just sell my own ideas without going through a middle man! Maybe it's time for a few more gay erotica novels ... they're still selling, though not as well as I'd like since it's such a small press.
I'm back down to Thursdays and Saturdays at work until the boss decides the two of us can be trusted to run his new store. It's a conundrum. He doesn't trust us to set cash prices so he tells us to call him for those, but he gets irritated at all the calls. My idea was maybe he should make a list of the most common cash prices & just let us follow the list, but for some reason he says that won't work either. I think he's just a micro-manager who can't stand not to have his fingers into everything. He swears I'm going to get back up to the original agreement (3-4 days a week alternately).
If you'd like a few good book recommendations, check out my blogs. jeshays.com reviews mysteries and popular fiction, while ejmurray.com does science fiction and fantasy. I just started a really interesting new sci-fi novel called Project: Hail Mary - and I'll be reading more by that author once I finish this one. And I'm in the middle of Susan Boyer's "Lowcountry" series of mysteries, with a female private eye on a (fictional) barrier island off the Charleston coast (and a ghost). I'm always in the market for a good read.
Working on another Amish Romance plot. I was offered a job as a Western Romance ghost writer but they were only paying $1.8 per 100 words, which is nowhere near the $1 to $3 per word average price listed on my search. I refrained from telling them "you get what you pay for" and just politely declined. If I'm going to be paid pennies, I can just sell my own ideas without going through a middle man! Maybe it's time for a few more gay erotica novels ... they're still selling, though not as well as I'd like since it's such a small press.
I'm back down to Thursdays and Saturdays at work until the boss decides the two of us can be trusted to run his new store. It's a conundrum. He doesn't trust us to set cash prices so he tells us to call him for those, but he gets irritated at all the calls. My idea was maybe he should make a list of the most common cash prices & just let us follow the list, but for some reason he says that won't work either. I think he's just a micro-manager who can't stand not to have his fingers into everything. He swears I'm going to get back up to the original agreement (3-4 days a week alternately).
If you'd like a few good book recommendations, check out my blogs. jeshays.com reviews mysteries and popular fiction, while ejmurray.com does science fiction and fantasy. I just started a really interesting new sci-fi novel called Project: Hail Mary - and I'll be reading more by that author once I finish this one. And I'm in the middle of Susan Boyer's "Lowcountry" series of mysteries, with a female private eye on a (fictional) barrier island off the Charleston coast (and a ghost). I'm always in the market for a good read.