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• Kindle Launch and Tales of a Book Publisher

  November 30, 2024

  I stayed up late last night, working on our catalogue that has to be mailed to stores in January for Spring. I had so many resizing issues with it after working on it all day. I stayed up until 2 a.m., mainly because I was too tired to go to bed. This morning I want…

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• My Book’s Release Date is Nov 30!

  November 28, 2024

  Okay, so this week has been a whirlwind of marketing preparations. The book has been available for pre-order on Kindle since last week, but I think most of my readers prefer physical, tangible paperbacks. There has been so much to do and with getting ready for a Kindle release on Saturday and the...

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• Finished my novel!

  November 22, 2024

  I finished my novel on Tuesday, and it's been in editing since. I've been discussing marketing plans, preorder setup, etc. Still deciding on the release date. The Kindle version will be available for pre-order, and although paperbacks won't be able to be preordered, they will be released on the s...

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• Almost finished my novel! Woohoo!

  November 19, 2024

  I've been writing nonstop and I'm at 45,655 words! My goal was 50K words, but once I reach that point, I don't care how much it goes over that word count, if any at all. I didn't write at all on Sunday, but otherwise, I've been waking up thinking about my characters and where I…

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• A snippet from my book

  November 18, 2024

  A snippet of my book. The Main characters are Del (Philadelphia Powers) and Frankie (Frances Krane). This is a snippet from Chapter 3: “Now we’re just boring old fuddy-duddies,” she said. “What?” I asked in mock indignation. “Not me! Who knows, I could still be in a movie! It’s never too late to ...

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• Too Excited to write lol

  November 18, 2024

  I've gotten so much momentum going with my novel (think: a fun, feel-good escape—think The Golden Girls meets The Bucket List with a side of laugh-out-loud absurdity.) that I'm currently too excited to write this morning, lol. Sometimes this happens. I've only had this experience two other times,...

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• Car Mittens

  November 17, 2024

  I might want to work in car mittens into my novel. When my kids were little, one of them (all boys btw) stuck up his middle finger as our car passed this kid. apparently the other kid was a bully at school. So I told my kid "if you are going to be sticking up…

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• So Much Writing in on my novel!

  November 17, 2024

  I am so excited about my book! I've gotten over 24,000 words written on it in the past three days, writing nearly nonstop. The only other things I've been doing is eating and sleeping, and barely either. I eat at my laptop because I'm afraid if I stop writing I'll lose the ideas in my…

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• Finally Got Some Writing in!

  November 14, 2024

  Well . . . I wrote 6,885 words today, but not on the last novel I was writing (I will have to finish that at a later date) but on a brand new novel that I've been thinking about for a few years aimed at a middle-age audience. It is going to be hilarious! I've been…

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