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A New Store - And Some Other Things

So.  Updates.  Yay.

The elder two kids are outside, in splash-pants and rain coats.  It's not raining (it's actually supposed to snow later, got a storm warning and everything.  Yay for March in the mountains.), but everything is wet as hell on account of the snow finally melting.  It also smells of camping because there's a fire going near by.

...I want to go camping so bad, you have no idea...

Anyway - I started a Cafe Press shop.  It's named after my fantastically non-witty blog because I couldn't think of anything else, It also hasn't got much in there right now (and what there is is kinda cheesy), but I figured...what the hell.  Someday, someone might want a shirt that relates to my books/website/brand thing I'm trying to build for myself.  Or a stainless steel water bottle.  Or an interesting sicker.  Someone like...well, me.

And maybe my mum.

Or maybe, someday, one of you guys.  One can hope.

Plus, I'm thinking of one day doing some sort of give away/prize/contest sort of deal, and having this stuff would make sense.  So I started a shop.  Again, it's HERE.

Also - For some reason, the pictures of the individual things aren't turning up on the page, though they're there...?  I dunno.  Either way, I'll fiddle with it this after noon and see if I can't make it not suck.  Maybe throw a few more designs up there...something for Book Three, perhaps...

Right.  Book Three...

I've been in something of a mopey state because Book Two didn't do as well as I would have liked (it pretty much flopped).  I'm not going to lie and say I wasn't discouraged because of it, because I was.  A lot, because I really enjoyed writing Book Two.  So while I've started Book Three, I keep coming up with distractions for myself.  Like writing blog posts.  Upside is that I have an outline about 85% complete.  And I also joined Camp NaNoWriMo this April, for some accountability.  Aim is ~65k, but I'm thinking it'll end up being closer to 80k again.

Things I'm going to do differently this time:  ARC service.  Cover reveal...maybe a give away.  I dunno, I'll see where my finances are by the time the book's ready.  Contemplating Amazon ads.  I'm going to take my time and not shove it out the door as soon as it's compiled into a halfway's decent looking book.  This self-publishing gig is a slow climb for most (including me), I've got to remember that.

Onward!


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