Another day another post
Gonna start just using dates for post titles if I’m not feeling it.
Backstory: had a great workday Monday with Dex in the office. (resheduled from planned Tuesday visit) Did moar administrative things, like finally submitting my “Yes, Meta and Anthropic scraped 6 of my books for their AI text eating monster, here are the titles and ISBNs) form. Also got my formatting issues with the blog main page worked out, did more work on my Patreon dashboard to get rid of the annoying pop up reminding me the “upgrade” was available, and fixed some other little internet things that needed tending.
Why so late with filling out a thing so I could maybe get money? It was a form. I hate filling out forms. It was a form that required collecting and collating information. Even more hate. BUT IT IS DONE. Cue ecologically safe ballon drop and non-microplastic glitter toss.
Prologue: Tuesday was a day of puttering around in research rabbit holes and playing with graphics. Because Rough Passages is now in the Indie Author Select program, I have permission to add the cute 'l’il badge to my covers and promo material. So I made a little promo graphic for that, posted about it, and got into a couple of unrelated conversations online. That took me up to Work Shift, where I wrote my weekly writing focused summary blog post for Main Blog and posted cat pics.
Hm. I should put the “Rough Passages is now all fancy in Biblioboard”graphic as the splash image on my blog page, now that August is 2 weeks over and the sale ends tomorrow. Yay for good timing.
Plot: Did some research on kids books, as I am going to a baby shower soon where guests are requested to gift kids books they love instead of the usual WTFery or consumables like diapers & bottles. So, yay for books. I would’ve gone to a local bookstore to buy them, but, welp, last minute. Most weren’t showing on-hand at any local stores anyway. So. It’s a mix between books I actually loved as a wee’un, books I loved for kids from bookselling days, and a couple of books standing in for books I. loved that I would 100% never suggest to anyone now. (gifting the awesome modern World Full Of Stories, NOT Kipling’s Just So Stories or any of the Lang Fairy Books. Those might come later. When kid is older. Only after discussion with parents.)
Watched Kpop Demon Hunters last night. 10/10 will watch again, getting the soundtrack ASAP. Spouseman loved it too. So wholesome it freaking squeaked.
Today is laundry day. Three loads down, one to go. I had tasty Hawaiian bread toasted for breakfast, and cheese n apples are on the menu for lunch. Supper will be night two of sausage n tater casserole, one of my all time favorite comfort meals, and I’m looking forward to an evening of playing with my cat games on my tablet. Between now and then, I want to add some to the Izzie & Nora story and poke at Treasure Haunt a little more. I got an email that the agent is now reading Ghost Town, so…that world may take front burner in the brain soon. We’ll see.
And that’s that.