Meh

My link at Six Sentence Sunday wasn't active for whatever reason, so nobody showed up. I'll make one last attempt at signing up for the first Sunday of January, and if again the link doesn't go live for whatever reason, I'll give up participating. It hasn't generated any sales anyway (although I've met some wonderful people), so I might change it to Sunday Excerpt and just post something short from any of my works – not six sentences, but not 1500words (as requested by Indie Book List) either.

Smashwords hasn't send BoI – Earth to premium distribution yet because they want me to add a ToC. In a novel. And #4. Those trainees at Smashwords aren't helpful at all, and they obviously don't own an e-reader or they'd know you don't need a damn ToC to read a novel on your e-reader (unless you're a person who likes to read chapters in random order, but then you'd probably buy the paper book, as that's not easy to do with e-books! ).

Anyway, this adds up to my list of frustrations with indie publishing of lately… I stare at my sheet of things to do and go "No way, next year!"… I guess I'm tired! But I do need to contact editors now to know when they want the next manuscript so I can follow my publishing schedule – luckily I did manage that, but the other experiments or things I plan to do… I'll just wait for January.

I've experimented with Calibre, trying to do e-pub and mobi files of SKYBAND, but they don't come out right, so I'll have to experiment some more. If only I could figure out what size of JPG fits the Kindle screen, for example… the excellent suggestions of Jeff Thomason work for the Smashwords meatgrinder, but not on Calibre, sigh.

Anyway, off to drawing some more, although I doubt I'll be able to finish SKYBAND 10 before the end of the year… I mean, I can probably draw and ink it, but will have to color and letter in the new year. Sorry, dear reader, and be patient with me!