Amy’s Comments (group member since Jan 15, 2017)

Amy’s comments from the Navigating Indieworld Discussing All Things Indie group.

Thanks Christine I need all the support I can get.

OK announcement. I have done the dreaded mailing list. Without apologising for clogging up 593 people's mailboxes this time. (Yay) It actually looked quite good. We'll see how many people unsubscribe. It was 20+ last time.

Still to do- the promotion shi... I can't stand the whole promotion shi... I might stick a pin in Alex's list and go with a random choice.

We have a saying here 'Should have gone to Specsavers.' Basically you need your eyes tested. lololol

I do need to get ahead of Remnants though. It's only going to take me missing a day of writing to miss a scheduled chapter. I'd like to be a few ahead.

Glad you're having a good day CeDany.

Mine's OK too. I've prepped another chapter of Missing Remnants for the Radish Fiction App. I'm very pleased with how the story is going.

I've found a group on here to announce it too.

I had a bit of work for my day job.

Hardly! If I was I'd be contacting all known promoters of Sci-Fi without any hesitation. Instead I'm procrastinating in favour of getting ahead with the writing.

A few things to do:

Schedule an episode of Missing Remnants for release this week. Done.

Email Radish to say as they've tweeted asking about Sci-Fi and Mystery stories why not feature Missing Remnants on the Home page among all the naked male torsos and women sucking on olives and fingers. Done.

Email my "mailing list" and alert them to Missing Remnants and what the hell Radish Fiction is in the first place. Ugh... to do.

Decide on somewhere to promote Nate and Day and possibly Missing Remnants. Providing I can make promo people understand what the hell Radish Fiction is lol.

Finish writing, type up and edit chapter 7 of Missing Remnants and get it ready for release next week. To do. Not difficult.

For me cost effectiveness is important so I hope you do earn the cost of the cover back.

Indecision would probably be my worst mistake. That and writing erotica. It would take me longer to find somewhere to promote erotica that works, than it would to write the stuff.

There are a few places that will publicise erotica yet I look at the form and think "nah they'll only turn me down and I can't take the rejection"

And I can't even fathom if it's worth promoting something on Radish it's such a small audience and I'm such a minuscule percentage of that. Ugh.

Fantastic Alex, well done.

So our stuff can predict things accurately and we don't even get hurricanes!?! (Apart from 1987 which I slept through.)

It's tricky. I hate sending things out that aren't yet published. I sent them a whole manuscript of something already published. So I wasn't in the same situation. I still don't know much about them other than what's online. It seems ok. I haven't earned enough coins yet to see if they pay out promptly. I aim to get there in the next decade lol.

That'd do.

Give em hell!

I think you achieved that. Those people are the worst.

Thanks Erica. I know it's not as traumatic as other things and even not as bad as other things I've been through myself but this one took its toll on me. I'm glad it's over.

There's a section here https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group... of people who offer various services including editing. Some also do formatting.

Finally. 13 months after he died, my Dad's estate has been finalised. I have my inheritance, I have paid off my card and overdraft debts. The whole wondering if I'll need to drop everything to appear at the solicitor's office at a moment's notice at an inconvenient time has gone. I can schedule work appointments without worrying that I'll have to let anyone down because I'm expected somewhere else. It's been a long year. I feel like I can get back to being me again. Also, I'm petrified of falling into debt again.

Alex wrote: "I see no whining in your emails, just someone who needs to share when things aren't going so great, and we're all like that. I'm happy to listen and give advice, or even just to listen. Besides, you nearly always have something amusing or interesting to say so I'm happy to get your emails."

That very kind of you to say. I can be very repetitive when I feel I'm hitting my head against a brick wall or if things are 'pending' ugh.

Me too. So many things to read.

I'm 15% through A Perfect Pose at the moment and haven't got any notes for you. I'm really enjoying it. The teenage model is a cow! That's insulting to cows. Sorry cows. I'm hoping to have another go tomorrow night.

Carole wrote: "The book, btw is terrific. I love Track!!!"

Thank you. I love Track too, the miserable bastard!

I'll get another episode out this week just for you. Because nobody else is reading it (raises eyebrows and sighs deeply!) It's a good book too, I even know where it's going vaguely and I don't plan stories-ever.