Filed under Books and Publishing , Writing. Seems like only yesterday I posted this same heading, yet it was Christmas a year ago. All of you probably thought I had died. The last time I posted on this blog was months back.
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I hope was a good year for you. All in all, I have a lot to be grateful for. Of course you know that old saying: That quote really did not originate with John Lennon. It originated with a guy named Allen Saunders. This was quite an undertaking for me. All I need now is to get over this head cold that has affected my voice. A person should have good elocution and be a half-assed actress for it to work. My advantage, if I have one, is that I know how I mean for the dialogue I wrote to sound. They are very expensive.
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Book 2 will not be a novella. Writing a novella is harder than it looks.
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I will never do it again. My home is in ,word tomes. I so want to re-write that book and re-release it as an Anna Jeffrey book. I had originally planned to write Book 3 in this series and that story is still sort of floating around in my head. I might go ahead and work on it whether I get my copyright back or not. So those are my plans for I think my day job is definitely going to have to take a backseat. Filed under Books and Publishing.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday, fellow readers. Hope you had a hale and healthy year and are looking forward to another one. What better time for good wishes than Christmas Eve? I cannot believe how fast this past year has gone. Still, DH and I have been lucky.
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No major health issues. When you get down to basics, that is the most important part of our lives. One major event for us this past year was an automobile upgrade. My year-old car was badly battered after years of sitting in the parking lot where I work at my real job. So we donated the pickup to charity and traded the car in on an SUV. Silly me, I thought scaling back to one vehicle would save money on insurance. The insurance premium on the new rig is higher than it was on both older vehicles. If you would prefer a print copy, one is available from Amazon.
I did a blog tour to kick it off and raffled a new Kindle Fire for people who visited the various blogs. I was unfamiliar with any of the book blogs where I was a guest. I had no idea there were so many. I felt like I had been living under a rock! The ever-changing publishing landscape is just that—ever-changing. Amazon sort of yanked the rug from under self-publishing authors with its new subscription service. Good deal for readers, not quite as good for authors. Hopefully, it will sort itself out soon.
I put only one book into it, mostly as an experiment. I have a steamy novella underway. I hope to be releasing it within the next few months. Let me know what you think. This book will be about Troy and the woman who finally captures his heart, Chloe. I will also wind up the Lockhart family story. I suppose backward is good as long as you come out at the right place in the end. Filed under Books and Publishing , Lifestyle. Or to be more specific, can someone who has been doing something in one way for a very long time learn to do the same thing a different way?
This is a question that looms before me as I embark on a mission to learn Scrivener. I bought Scrivener months ago. I was so confident I could use it I just bought it. Because I had more pressing things going on, I let its icon sit on my desktop for a couple of months before I opened it. After an hour with Scrivener, I was ready to pull out my thinning hair. And why am I trying to do this? Because I want to be faster and more efficient in my writing. I need to be turning out more than one book a year. A pantster is someone who writes organically. But being a pantster wastes a lot of time as you can probably imagine.
You write stuff, then throw it out and replace it with something new. After I became published by two of the Big Six publishing houses under two different pseudonyms, I no longer had the luxury of being a pantster. Consequently, over time, I developed a clumsy way of outlining in Word and in Excel. But now I want to try something I hope will be better.
So here I go into yet another class. Hopefully before the end of the month. Amazon has a new feature for authors to offer those who want to hold a printed book in their hands. If you buy the printed edition, you can buy the same book in e-book format for a reduced price. Of course, the author has to opt for this feature. Happy New Year, Everyone…. Hope brings you nothing but good news and good fortune. Hope you get lots of opportunities to read great books.
The Christmas season apparently set new records for online shopping and created a heck of a bottleneck at UPS and FedEx. It also brought us the largest credit card theft in history at Target. And Internet shopping brought us this: A lady bought and paid for items on an Internet site, but never received them.
When she tried to contact the site, she was unable to have a conversation with a human and got no response from the site. Angry and frustrated, she went online somewhere and posted negative comments about the site. She refused to pay the fine, so the site turned her over to a collection agency that harassed her unmercifully. Is her case going to set a precedent that a customer cannot make a negative comment about a product without fearing reprisal or lawsuit?
The Love of a Lawman (Callister, #3) by Anna Jeffrey
The books, even e-books, are a retail product bought from a retail site. When I think about all of the tacky and even mean things that have been said online about my books over the years, I have to wonder if I can sue somebody. I had intended to release this book in June, but about a hundred things interfered. All of these are contemporary romances set in West Texas. When you work in retail, the Christmas season calls for a huge amount of work and the patience of Job. North Texas actually had snow on Christmas Day this year. A lot of other things were going on besides work at my real job.
I ran into a few snags, like a copyeditor who dropped the ball. Consequently, I ended up hurrying through it and formatting it myself. The result of that was a whole lot of errors in the formatting. I hate that, but I had to upload it. I had copyrighted in in and I wanted it to be a release. Not getting the copyedit back threw my schedule all off and nothing came off as I had planned.
The books will be romance novels, but overarching the trilogy and threading through it is the story of a wealthy, dysfunctional Texas family. The true ending will not come until the end of the 3 rd book.
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