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June 30, 2020
It’s time for Smashwords’ July Summer/Winter Sale!
Yes, Smashwords just finished up its special “Authors Give Back” sale at the end of May. Now it’s time for its 6th annual July Summer/Winter Sale.
Are you going to complain about lower book prices again so soon? Are you, really?
Most of my books (except those priced $0.99 and free) are marked 25% off for the month!
June 28, 2020
Newsletter #8 – A Dream for Papa
Newsletter #8 is heading out on Sunday morning, a bit late, but coming your way! It’s about my collection “A Dream For Papa”, which includes some of my earliest incest stories.
Check it out early: Newsletter #8
June 20, 2020
Newsletter #7 is out the door!
I was trying to have Constant Contact send out my social media notifications of the new newsletters, but it messes up in reusing the incomplete personalized email greeting as the post heading, rather than letting me remove the personalization. So, I’ll go back to using the blog to let you know about it. Check it out, willya?
Newsletter #7
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June 6, 2020
I’ve added Diaspora to my social media mix!
Diaspora is a different kind of social network. Instead of being one massive set of servers being managed by a single company, Diaspora is distributed, with multiple outfits each providing a server or servers, all running the same software. Each one is called a pod. As a result, you have to pick a pod to enroll at and that becomes your login point. But once you’re logged in, all of the servers in the system operate together to present the content of users world-wide.
Once you’re in the network, you’ll find an experience that’s more like Instagram than it is Facebook. An interesting feature is called Aspects, somewhat similar to the “circles” that Google+ had (remember that?). You can make a post Public or post only to one of the Aspects where you’ve added contacts. Besides following contacts, you can also follow hashtags, which users are encouraged to use. There’s even special handling of a #nsfw tag, to keep adult content away from your screen when you can’t look at it right now.
If you’re interested, check out my pod, pod.jns.im, or go to https://diasporafoundation.org/ to pick your own. I’m user leenysman@pod.jns.im.
May 31, 2020
May 24, 2020
Newsletter #3 has sailed!
Newsletter #3 is about my series “Our Love, After Dad Died“, which happens to be on sale 30% OFF at Smashwords, right now, until May 31st!!
If you haven’t subscribed already, here’s your chance: Subscribe
May 17, 2020
Retailer update – 24Symbols
One of the retailer partners for Streetlib is a Spanish company called 24Symbols. It operates as a subscription service, similar to Scribd or Kindle Unlimited, where for a monthly fee, you can read as many books as you want. (Bezos has gotten rich enough, don’t you think? It’s time to buy products from other retailers.)
What makes 24Symbols different, particularly for my books, is that it doesn’t reject incest erotica. So, it actually offers ALL of my books, not just the “tame” ones. I’ll be adding 24symbols links to each of my book pages. And gradually doing the same for the other retailers where Streetlib distributes my books.
24Symbols.com
May 16, 2020
Newsletter Update
If you haven’t signed up for my newsletter, here’s another chance:
Here’s the signup link:
https://leenyspress.com/contact/
And here’s the second newsletter:
Newsletter #2
And here is the first:
Newsletter #1
May 1, 2020
April 2020 Blog Status Report
The big news, of course, is the move of the blog to its own domain, hosted at BlueHost. Like the new digs? The move itself was pretty easy. The main challenge was in updating links that pointed to the old domain, first in the site itself, then social media posts and lastly in the back matter of my books.
The second big news is that I’ve finally set up an Instragram account (leenysman) and started preparing promo images to post there (they like them square, so I’m not reusing the landscape ones I have for other social media). We’ll see how that goes.
I hope life is treating you all well and that May is a better month than April has been for most of the country.
April 24, 2020
Are subscribers seeing this?
I was able to find a WordPress feature that let me migrate the 100+ subscribers from the old blog to this new one. But it appears that only makes the new blog visible to those folks in WP Reader, not by an email notification? So, I thought I’d put up a post to check this… If you are a former subscriber and see this, can you Like it and also re-subscribe to email notification to the right? If you did in fact receive an email notification, could you let me know that, too?
You might also want to subscribe to my separate newsletter via its own link.
