I have a good excuse for blog being late this week.
If you glance at the navigation menu for my website you will now see a brand-new tab for BOOKSHOP. That’s NEW!!!!
After multiple years and many false starts, I have finally put together a webstore page so that people who are tech-savvy enough to want to download their own ebooks can buy them direct from me and put them on whatever device they want.
The webstore ALSO has a section with nice links to my distributor’s ecommerce site so I can also sell paperbacks direct without the hassle of trips to the post office, UPS or FedEs—and/or charging most of the price of a book to ship them.
This has been my hyperfocus obssession project for the last week-plus, with a bonus long weekend full of socializing all over my old college campus with my wonderful, wonderful extended family-by-marriage. So. Travel. FAMILY. Football game in the 85 degree heat with thousands of people. Moar travel. AND I STILL FINISHED THE WEBSITE UPGRADE. I also kept up on my semi-regular quickest blogging and kept my reading log up to date too!
Feeling rather proud of all that. Also tired.
Other writing adjacent tasks recently completed: I figured out my volunteer login credentials for the Capricon pre-con volunteering I signed up to do, made sure relatives who like scifi got copies of my latest books, and updated my long-languishing LinkedIn account so it’s connected to an email that still exists. Today I sent out an email to the Introvert Gathering Group about the one date this month I’ve managed to keep clear of all the other busy activities. October 28, to be precise.
Between now and then I’m participating in an exciting book event— the farewell party for the outgoing host of Gumbo Fiction Salon, Tina Jens. She will be pursuing her dream of residing in New Orleans. There’s a big Gumbo Fiction bash on October 13 with readings from past featured readers including me but more importantly award-winning folks like like Cat Rambo and Sue Burke.
Galway Arms in Chicago, 7PM, if you happen to be local and happen to be interested.
In other doings, I have finished the big ol trench project in the backyard and put up the outdoor All Hallow’s Eve decorations. I know, that wasn’t writing related. It just used up time I was far too braindead and fidgety to use sitting at the desk. “Con drop” is when my brain crashes after a long weekend of socializing at a book convention. I don’t know what the family-related equivalent might be, but I definitely had it Sunday afternoon through Tuesday. Fringe benefit/silver lining: all the “I’ll do this some other time” laundry and dishes that had been piling up are now clean and put away in their cabinets.
And then today family was here in our town so we did more visiting. Which was grand and all (Portillos for lunch FTW) but it did eat up most of the day. So. Tomorrow there is more disruption due to Halloween-related garden events, but Friday and Saturday should be good for writing time. And some down time.
Tomorrow’s goal is to get the first few Angry Women Bond Over Cats scenes off to my alpha readers, which I wanted to get done last week but got sidetracked by the website thing. Ah, well. It wil happen, and soon now.
So. Anyway. That’s all the writing and life ducks sorted into neat rows…at least for a moment or two.
If you’ve made it this far, you’re a dedicated reader, and for you, I have made a fancy little duplicate of my webstore, only with super-simple FREE downloadable copies of my ebooks.
The page address is https://kmherkes.com/besties-bookshop and the password is “best prices for best friends” only without the quotation marks. I’ll only leave this up until Halloween at the latest, and I’d appreciate it you didn’t share the password, but if you want to grab backup personal copies of any of my ebooks (or first time copies for that matter) now’s your chance. Trick or treat.
And now, the important part of the post. PICTURES! nI swear I have a dozen pictures of Pippin looking exactly like this, but here he is again.
That’s it for post 108, folks. Be safe, stay well, keep on reading.