Book sale: all books 99 cents

Patty Jansen is running her regular promotion this weekend.  My own Caverns of Mercury is one of the featured titles.  Check it out:

Direct link:  https://pattyjansen.com/promo/

All books are 99 cents.  These promotions are a great way to try out new authors without spending a lot of money.  Please browse the site and check out the books.  You might just find your new favorite author.

In the meantime, thanks for reading, and thanks for supporting independent authors.

Cold feet, hot head

Yeah, it's winter.  Vents are in the ceiling, which means the warm air stays at the top of the room and never makes it to the floor.

Four more months of this.  At least.  Depends on how early spring gets here.

Cold feet, hot head.  For the rest of the season.  :(

In other news, I've received the usual emails from my retail partners advising me to make any changes to my ebooks before such-and-such a date.  I've got changes to make, but I'll hold off on some of them until the new year.

I think I've decided on Christmas gifts for the niece and nephew.

I hate modern appliances.  More electronics = more things that can break.  I long for simple electromechanical things that just work.

Unseasonably cold

It's currently 40 degrees with 15 mph winds.  Windchill is 29.

And there's still daylight out.  Night is just beginning to fall.

This is February weather, not November weather.

*sigh*

I think I'm going to crawl in a hole somewhere and hibernate.  Y'all wake me up when it's April.

Stabbed my eyeball

It's not bad.  I was putting my contact lens in, and it went in sideways and the edge of the lens poked me in the eye.  The cornea's a little irritated, but no vision damage or anything.  This isn't the first time I've scratched my eye.

The bad news is that I'll need to go without my contacts for a couple of days to let the scratch heal.  That means I'm stuck with glasses, and I can't see as well with my glasses as I can with my contacts.

Anyway, it's yet another little annoyance.  :(

Progress report

Well, I'm still line-editing the current book, and it's looking less and less likely that it'll be out this year.  I hate that I keep pushing it back, but that's the way it goes.  When I try to rush, quality declines, and I'd rather delay publishing a book than publish something I know can be better.

On the positive side, I've sold a few box sets on Kobo lately, so the cover I bought for it has paid for itself.  Still no plans as of yet to publish the box set elsewhere.  For the time being, it's a Kobo/Walmart exclusive.

I ran a few promotions for Clouds of Venus last week, and I'm pleased with the results.  If any new readers are reading this, I hope you enjoy the book.

That's all for now.  Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.  :)

Roy Clark has passed away

One of the most talented musicians in American history has left us.

Country Music Hall of Fame member and versatile entertainer Roy Clark died Thursday at his home in Tulsa, Oklahoma,  after complications from pneumonia, his publicist said. He was 85.

Here's Roy with Johnny Cash:

Here he is performing Malaguena, one of his specialties:

Here he is on the fiddle:

On the banjo:

Here he is playing three different instruments in rapid succession:

He played mandolin, too, though I can't seem to find a decent video of him on the mandolin.

Here's a British guitarist reacting to Roy's appearance on The Odd Couple:

Here's a short tribute video from the Rock History Music channel:

R.I.P., Mr. Clark.  :(

I'm getting antsy

I haven't seen the sun since Saturday.  It started raining on Sunday, and it didn't stop raining until this morning.  It's still overcast.

The clouds are supposed to clear tomorrow, and then we'll have several sunny days.  I hope that forecast is correct.  I feel like I'm starting to go crazy.  I love the humidity, but I also need some rays on my skin.

In other news, I'm running promotions for Clouds of Venus this week, so if the book's rank seems unusually high, then that's why.  To any new readers: thanks for reading, and I hope you enjoy my work.  :)

Also, I finally finished line-editing the first boarding scene in book 3.  Man, that was a tough one.  I ended up adding a scene break because it was just too long.  I think the original scene was something like ten OpenOffice pages, which translates to about twenty ebook pages.  On the one hand, I want the scene to be somewhat exhausting for the reader because that's the mood I'm going for, but on the other hand, I don't want the reader to be so exhausted that he puts the book down.  Balance, trade-off, etc.  So I added an asterisk break.  Hopefully I made the right choice.

The bad news is that I'm still only about a third a way of the way done.  I'm going to have to really cook if I want to publish this thing before year's end.

And I haven't done a lick of Christmas shopping yet.  *sigh*