What a Week
Well the weekend has finally arrived, and what an interesting week it has been.
No matter what time I woke up in the morning in an attempt to get some editing done on my current Work in Progress, at least one of my kids would also wake up. As the week progressed this grew more and more extreme with me setting my alarm on Friday almost an hour earlier than I would normally get up, and having it set to vibrate rather than a specific ring tone, and yet all three of them were awake before I got out of the bedroom.
Don't get me wrong I love spending time with my kids, but sometimes I just want a bit of time to get my writing done.
My day job (Cringe) was also one crazy ride, I took one lunch break all week (Friday) and spent about half of my time sitting beside my boss at his desk going over a task I have been given which I am neither trained for and have no qualifications even remotely related to it; namely accounting. This is sadly a trend that seems set to stay certainly until September time by which time they are already planning on having new things for us to do. I can't really grumble, it pays the bills, and although we can't actually save any money each month we have a roof over our head and food on the table and after the events that happened in Japan we really can't grumble about anything.
On the Japan front, I am still campaigning strongly, trying to raise as much money as I can for Japan. If you have not seen my Tweets or initial post on the matter, I am donating 50% of all my book sales (SALES not royalties) to the Japanese Relief Funds, probably with either the Red Cross of Global Giving, To make matters ever better, my friend and fellow amazing writer L M Stull will donate $1 for every book sold should the buyer place a note on her blog advising her of their purchase.
So far I haven't sold as many copies as I would have liked, there has been a lot of interest but very few actual sales. From a writer's perspective I don't mind, I have sold 3 copies of my book and that is more than enough for me to consider myself a success, but I would like to see the numbers increase for the simple fact that it will mean I can donate more money to such a worthy cause.
My current Work in Progress is in the second round of editing, and due to rather severe time constraints as briefly mentioned above, the going has been slow. 5 pages yesterday was my high for the week and I don't think that number will grow much over the coming weeks. Sadly this means I am already way behind schedule for a June release (not to mention funding problems for the cover art.) and am now thinking that October sometime is more accurate. I write / edit something everyday and that makes me happy so as long as I do something everyday then a release date doesn't mean much? Does it?
