It really is autumn
Summer is lingering on with the temps still flirting with 80 degrees, but we’re losing 2 minutes of sunshine a day, the trees are shifting color, and the nights are brisk.
So, yeah. It’s definitely autumn. Autumn things are happening.
Writerly doings: I’m making progress on both stories. Slooooooow progress, but that’s still progress, right? Good news for the folks who volunteered as tributes to do alpha reading: I should have something to send out this week.
Author adjacent accomplishments: I’ve made—and posted!—some promo graphics, I have been good about actually talking about writing to people at work, and I’ve made progress (slow, it’s a theme) on putting direct links to products on a “shop” page on my website. So I can just direct people straight to those pages & include a buy-direct paperback link from Ingramspark.
Wrench in the works: the process of doing that, I discovered there’s something weird going on with my Ingram ebook distribution — some titles are showing available on all expected platforms, others are missing from several major outlets, like Kobo and bookshop. I need to write an email about it, but will take some tedious desk time researching exactly which ISBNS are missing from which platforms. Time for a spreadsheet, eh?
This is clearly the universe’s way of nudging me to make a spreadsheet of all my titles with individual URLS for all the main ebook markets. So that I can make a proper shop on my own website. It’s also a nudge towards adding distribution into markets like drivethru fiction and itch.io, because why not?
I keep adding things to my social calendar, between family, and friends, and conventions, but so far, I’m hitting a good balance between that time and writing time. I’ve agreed to do some pre-convention volunteering for Capricon (only 129 days away!) and that looks like it will be a lovely addition to the ‘keep the creative sparks fueled up.”
House happenings: I’ve almost finished my Shoji door project, (it’s only taken 9 months) I’m harvesting out the garden boxes, I’ve repotted the rosemary plants, started some cuttings, & ordered a stand with plant lights for the winter months to come.
I tried to start a fall crop of lettuce, but it’s been so hot and dry—and the squirrels have been so enthusiastic about rooting around for tomatoes—that the first round of seedlings didn’t survive. I’ll start a new batch in a few days. The way things are going they’ll still have plenty of time to mature before we get a sustained hard frost.
Anyway. that’s all the doings. Time for pics. Fluffy cat, proof of lunch, and other stray snapshots.
That’s it for post 107, folks. Be safe, stay well, keep on reading.