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April 15, 2010
Middle of April
Thursday morning and the end of The Shattered Mirror is in sight. We are at over 81K and the last few chapters approaching climax just need to be done.
It was suggested that I join a site called Romance Divas and that was probably the wrong place. In a few years time there are some ladies on the site that have thousands of posts, over thirty to fifty a day. That is a lot of work to devote to one place. It seems to be a place where mostly ladies go to talk about writing romance, a very few...
April 11, 2010
1st Week of April 2010
We are coming up on some anniversaries. It has just been one month since we approved publication of The End of the World and we have 49 sales to date.
You can get The End of the World at the press or Here.
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If you are in time for the discount, it is here: The End of the World Amazon Discounted
We have scheduled marketing day for April 16th so if you are thinking of purchasing a copy of The End of the World, doing so that day from Amazon would be a great help.
Have been...
April 8, 2010
April Progress 1
Brea Borders Writers Group met again the first Saturday of April. I was able to read from the first six pages of Shattered Mirror, and had some ideas thrown my way to incorporate. Jennifer, Deedira and Melinda also read and all were given helpful insights. I distributed t-shirts to our members that can be had at the Regency Assembly Press store.
You can get nice items such as :
Sweatshirt
or a TravelMug
The End of the World is selling.
We are now at 35 copies plus in the 3 weeks it has been...
March 31, 2010
The End of March
March is ending and the Shattered Mirror has entered it's third chapter. Nearly fifteen thousand words and a couple days before writers group. This weekend the group is meeting at the house where we are going to work on marketing strategy as well as reading from our works. The Brea Borders Writers Group is now in its ninth year.
The End of the World is selling. We have sold over 15 copies in the 2 weeks it has been available for sale. At least 15. It recently went on sale at Amazon where...
March 18, 2010
Mid March Progress
The recovery continues.
Occasionally I feel pretty good and feel that I can do a lot. I ride my stationary bike and find that after 3/4's of a mile, that is not true. We walk for half an hour and I can barely move. Not there yet.
I can sit and type though. I crossed the threshold of 500 pages for 2010 earlier today. In the last few weeks I have begun writing daily again, though a break is upon us. Cheryl and I are house hunting and so must leave the writing aside for a short time. While...
February 28, 2010
Post Heartattack #3
Just outside looking in the garage for my safari hat. Want to take a picture of me post heart attack and could not find it. The misplaced things and what they mean to us… There I was speeding along in January, averaging more than 30,000 words a week. Doing very well and on the 15th it came to a halt as I had a heart attack, the most intense of any since I had the first in August of 2004.
I have been continuing work on the Born to Grace trilogy, and at this time, the end of February, I have...
December 31, 2009
2009 Wrap Up
Writing and where we are at, what I have accomplished:
1
Space Mine
97,915
2
Graces of Brantley
112,871
3
Colonel Pen
98,362
4
KoTohLan
144,672
5
The End of the World
101,376
6
Trevanion's Legend
36,238
7
Roses War
112,363
8
Born to Grace II
26,616
Total
730,413
This last week of the year I started new work on Born to Grace II which is the middle book of my big fat trilogy. The first big weighed in at 210,000+ words. I had written the first 39K...
December 28, 2009
December 28th and another draft and milestone
Christmas is over and it was a bust present wise and for visiting family. Cheryl has had back pain and so decided to spend the day at home instead of our usual trek to her sisters house for the event. My Gratitude Log for the day:
Fresh and Easy-
went to Costco for Dogfood and realized that human food was needed also. So stopped in at our local which was on the way and scored all that was good.Costco–[image error]During my dog food run I took care of my lunch needs with the Costco Hot Dog. [image error] $1.50 is the...
December 26, 2009
Christmas 2009 State of Mind
Christmas should be a good time to be grateful and since no one gifted me on Christmas, I have in my Gratitude Log for the day:
Empire Total War– [image error] I started playing this game as the United Provinces, the Dutch, which many of the gamers on YouTube have problems playing. After a few turns I started to do well. They have to attack a power in India, some minor holdings of the great powers in the new world, and just a few provinces near them in Europe, like Flanders. Doing that makes the Spanish...December 20, 2009
Progress and the end of the year
In my Gratitude Log for the day I have:
Scrivener–This is the program I use to write and it is very handy. These guys are nice too. They gave out a discount of 50% to all who completed the NaNoWriMo challengeCCOBS–This is the Curious Collectors of Bakers Street which I belong too and where some of our best friends also belong. A group that likes Sherlock Holmes but to me that is secondary to the friendships we have in the group.
Amazon.com–Great place to start looking for things to...
