Random stuff - the something good happened thread Showing 3,551-3,600 of 3,973

[Alicya]

Loved it!

[Carole]

Thanks, guys. Esther asked great questions.

[Magnus]

Yes, Carole. Swell, and then some. I'm sooo humbled by how efficient you are. My German genes have blushed green with envy!

[Carole]

Thanks, (blushes), but my thought process really looks like spaghetti, Magnus.

[Magnus]

mmm... I like spaghetti...
Ooops, done it again. I get distracted way too easily ;)

[Carole]

hahah! Me toooo!

[Judy]

Carole wrote: "Check out the terrific interview Esther put on her blog. Please like and share.

https://estherrabbit.com/carole-p-rom..."

a great interview, Carole

[Carole]

Thanks, but the credit should go to Esther and her interesting questions.

[Becky]

Carole P. Roman, your suggestion to try Story Monsters for an author spotlight worked! Mine just came out: https://www.storymonsters.com/book-br...

Thank you so much. I would never have thought of just asking if they'd consider doing one on me.

[Carole]

YAY Becky!!!!! They are great people. I've been involved with them for a long time and they are really promoting to a bigger audience now!!!

[Carmel]

Becky wrote: "Carole P. Roman, your suggestion to try Story Monsters for an author spotlight worked! Mine just came out: https://www.storymonsters.com/book-br......"

Congratulations, Becky!

[Valerie]

What a wonderful idea for a thread - so nice to see so much good news!

As for me, in the last few days, my Amazon KENP/page reads have shot back up after a bit of a lull and I've had a couple more sales of my latest release as well. Made me smile anyway :)

[Carole]

Congrats, Valerie!!

[Anna]

Alex wrote: "Congrats to everyone. Darn goodreads didn't keep me up to date with notifications, so I've only just seen most of these messages.

Hopefully I'll see everyone's good news as it's posted from now on."

And I've just found this post of yours in my Spam box!

[Anna]

I think I could get very fat on my spam.

[Carmel]

Alex wrote: "Somethings good.

1 - the lady I saw at the Job Centre today was decent and accepted what I said, so I won't have to worry about any back to work schemes for at least six months.

2 - I discovered..."

Happy to hear that, Alex. A bad day got better!

[Anna]

Sorry, Alex, I just had to laugh at your duplicated text! It's a bit like squirreling away a bit of good news for a later date which finally came yesterday when you got two lots of good news.

[D.J.]

Finally, I have something to contribute to this thread:

1) I finished writing The Illusion for the Bulwark Anthology.
2) I'm pleased with it.
3) Carole/Brit Lunden likes it.

Relief all round. I didn't think I'd make it to the 15k minimum word count.

In other news, I've got to write the blurb. (Oh bugger.)

[Carole]

Great story! I loved it!! Gave me a proper case of the creeps.

[D.J.]

Carole wrote: "Great story! I loved it!! Gave me a proper case of the creeps."

Good. I'm always happy to gross people out. I have to cook dinner now but it's pizza night tomorrow, so they're quite safe!

[Carole]

I am never eating pizza at your house. lol. I don't like the toppings.

[D.J.]

Nothing wrong with a bit of ear. You just need to chew it thoroughly.

[Carole]

;)

[Anna]

Hurray! Ear? Shiver.

[Alicya]

Here's this week's good - not so good - all good again!
Last November I created a giveaway for a gift pack of my book and journal. The woman who won it loved it and contacted me earlier this month to see if she could buy 2 more gift packs.
I had never thought to sell the book and journal together but couldn't say no and she wired me the money.
The problem was I didn't have any spare journals so I quickly ordered a few copies with a delivery date of Jan 20th and I waited and waited.
When they didn't arrive by Jan 24th, I checked the global shipping company' tracking and it said the package had been dropped off at my door on the 19th......nope.
Called Amazon (the shipping company will not take calls from Amazon customers :( After finally answering all the questions such as "Did you look everywhere?" she said the package is declared lost and my money would be refunded.
That's great but I still had a customer who had prepaid and I still didn't have the books. Went through the process again to order the books and even with fastest shipping it takes at least a week but I was stuck so had no choice.
The next evening at 8:00pm a box arrived at my door.
My original order arrived!

phew!!!

[Carole]

Arrrrgh!! At least the original arrived.

[Carole]

Found a good site- it's called Book Trib. They have lots of affordable PR stuff available. Check them out. https://booktrib.com/2019/01/a-fun-in...

[Anna]

So very pleased for you!

[Anna]

Temporary can be good - refreshes the brain.

[Angel]

Hi, everybody. I need to ask a question? I have been asked to ghostwrite an entire book for someone on Wattpad, a total of 20 chapters. I have done ghostwriting before and have even posted about my rates for ghostwriting and editing services. But this is for Wattpad should I charge what I usually charge, should I charge at all or negotiate another payment alternative like a gift card or something of that nature. Because I will be spending my time on this ghostwriting project and will have to stop most of what I am doing for my own books and I have just started publishing other authors plus doing advertising, promotion and marketing for other authors as well as myself. So that will have to be slowed down or come to a complete halt for the time being while I'm doing the ghostwriting for this person's book. What do you think I should do? Should I charge for my time on this?

[Angel]

Alex wrote: "Angel wrote: "Hi, everybody. I need to ask a question? I have been asked to ghostwrite an entire book for someone on Wattpad, a total of 20 chapters. I have done ghostwriting before and have even p..."

Thank you, Alex :). And I think that's what I should do, too.

[Dale]

Yep, I agree with Alex.

[Carmel]

Wonderful....I hope it goes well for you, Angel. And I agree with Alex and Dale.

[Carole]

Great news, Alex.

[Carole]

I'm glad you're beginning to get the support you need.

[Angel]

Carmel wrote: "Wonderful....I hope it goes well for you, Angel. And I agree with Alex and Dale."

Thanks.

[Angel]

Dale wrote: "Yep, I agree with Alex."

Thanks.

[Angel]

Alex wrote: "The pension people have finally agreed to pay my mum's pension, hooray. The backlog is being paid in a lump sum and she is now going to be better off each month, which also means I will be better o..."

Good to hear, Alex. I'm glad things are going so well for you both.

[Carmel]

Terrific news, Alex. The wheels turn slowly, but any movement is good news.

[Anna]

So pleased to hear your news, Alex. What a relief!

And Angel - that is a terrific compliment!

[D.J.]

Good news Alex. About time you had some of that.

[D.J.]

Not sure if this counts for good news. I've been referred to neurology and have an appointment at a hospital I have never been to before in June. No doubt they will find nothing wrong with me and I'll still be dropping things, falling over nothing and slurring my words. But at least I have an appointment.

[D.J.]

Alex wrote: "I'm so glad you have an appointment with neurology. I really hope they figure out what is causing your problems and fix it for you."

Thanks. The GP was reluctant, "it's very specialist" was his opinion. He doesn't think they'll find anything wrong and I'll just be deemed clumsy. So be it, but I'd like to know for sure.

[D.J.]

Money. It's all down to money. I had to negotiate blood tests last year. I won, and two of my blood tests picked up something that wasn't right. But all this stuff costs the NHS money and they're reluctant to refer people. Took me a year to get a mammogram for an issue I found as I'm too young to have a routine one, yet breast cancer killed my mother. I should have insisted at the time, but I felt guilty for asking to use their technology.

[Carole]

It’s a sick system

[Carmel]

D.J. wrote: "Not sure if this counts for good news. I've been referred to neurology and have an appointment at a hospital I have never been to before in June. No doubt they will find nothing wrong with me and I..."

I'm not sure what to hope for here, DJ. That nothing is found to be wrong (which means still no explanation) or something to be found so you have answers. I guess I will hope for the best of all possible outcomes for you, whatever that looks like.

[Carole]

Answers are always the best things- then you can start doing things to speed up recovery or have the tools to make thing easier. Hope it happens for you, DJ.

[D.J.]

Thanks Carmel. I am hoping for a diagnosis. Like Carole says, answers are best. Although I’m not sure I like the sound of my husband’s answer on my birthday recently when he said, “it could be anything... early onset Alzheimer’s...” I thought, Cheers mate!

[Anna]

From what you say, D.J., it doesn't sound like Alzheimers, more like a neurological problem, so don't go worrying about the dreaded A., please.

Hope it's something that can be treated easily. There's a treatment for most things these days.

[Judy]

Angel wrote: "Hi, everybody. I need to ask a question? I have been asked to ghostwrite an entire book for someone on Wattpad, a total of 20 chapters. I have done ghostwriting before and have even posted about my..."

of course you should charge, Angel