feelin' good
Despite the frozen wastes of black ice, I'm feeling good as I've accomplished a number of major tasks.
Changed bits of the website, published the fourth book, and regularised the costs of all the books. that last bit means I get less the longer a book is (due to Lulu charging by the page). But there - that should teach me to write shorter books! :p
Now I can spellcheck the fifth book and pass it to the editor. Then - finally - go back to the sixth book and see where that goes.
Funny how reluctant I was to let the fourth book go. That and the fifth book are my favourites, and letting one of them into the wild, so to speak, makes me feel as though I've lost it. I've heard that from other creatives about works they were fond of. How strange it is.
Oh well, I'd just better make sure I produce other stuff I feel like that about. :)
One funny thing - I'd given paperback copies to an online US friend who came to London last month. He and his wife are hard-up, so I didn't want to charge, even to cover the cost to me. He's zipped through the three already and made lots of complimentary comments (though I'm not sure about the one about their being 'mythological' as they include some gods - would a Christian book about their God be regarded as... oh, let it pass! :P ) but he did say he nearly gave up at the start of the first book due to it initially centering on a crime of sabotaging a virgin sacrifice.
VIRGIN SACRIFICE???!!!!!!
We are talking an evangelical Christian here. LOL!
Anyway, when revising the Lulu paperbacks, I was sorely tempted to add a line in the preface to the first book that "no virgins were sacrificed in the making of this book"...
Changed bits of the website, published the fourth book, and regularised the costs of all the books. that last bit means I get less the longer a book is (due to Lulu charging by the page). But there - that should teach me to write shorter books! :p
Now I can spellcheck the fifth book and pass it to the editor. Then - finally - go back to the sixth book and see where that goes.
Funny how reluctant I was to let the fourth book go. That and the fifth book are my favourites, and letting one of them into the wild, so to speak, makes me feel as though I've lost it. I've heard that from other creatives about works they were fond of. How strange it is.
Oh well, I'd just better make sure I produce other stuff I feel like that about. :)
One funny thing - I'd given paperback copies to an online US friend who came to London last month. He and his wife are hard-up, so I didn't want to charge, even to cover the cost to me. He's zipped through the three already and made lots of complimentary comments (though I'm not sure about the one about their being 'mythological' as they include some gods - would a Christian book about their God be regarded as... oh, let it pass! :P ) but he did say he nearly gave up at the start of the first book due to it initially centering on a crime of sabotaging a virgin sacrifice.
VIRGIN SACRIFICE???!!!!!!
We are talking an evangelical Christian here. LOL!
Anyway, when revising the Lulu paperbacks, I was sorely tempted to add a line in the preface to the first book that "no virgins were sacrificed in the making of this book"...