First of all, the Kindle Countdown for Legends of Windemere Fantasy Series Bundle #1 is on its last day.  Get the first 3 volumes for $2.99 by clicking on the cover below:

Cover Art by Jason Pedersen
3D Conversion by Bestt_graphics

The holidays are over, but the kid’s vacation is still going strong.  This brings a frustrating wrinkle into the upcoming debut.  Legends of Windemere: The Mercenary Prince will be going live this week.  I’m going to be out tomorrow since it’s one of the few good weather days we have on the horizon.  So I plan on hitting publish Monday night and waking up to the book being live.  With any luck, I’ll have all of the promo stuff sent out by noon.  Not easy with the 6-year-old prowling with his new lightsaber, army of superhero Minions, 3 imaginary dogs, an imaginary cat, an imaginary cheetah, and the ever-present blankie.  You might think I can wait for him to go back to school the following Monday, but I can’t.  I set up some promo spots for early January and I don’t want to be the author that bails.  All I need is the sales link to get everything set up.

Now if you volunteered to be part of the promo post tour then expect an email on Tuesday with the HTML file.  If you requested a guest post then you’ll get that in a separate email after I put in the link.  Those will be in Word format and I’ll attach a copy of the cover and my author photo as well.  Those two pictures will be in the promo post though, so you can also reuse them since they’ll be in your media folder.  At least that’s what happens with me.

Waldorf and Statler from Muppets

Small break to say that I’ve no idea why Pandora keeps stopping after one song.  Given that my laptop has been acting strange for months, I’m worried that it’ll die before I get the money for a new one.  Preferably one that doesn’t have Windows 10 because the desktop has that and it should be chucked into a black hole.  Not as bad as Vista, but rather annoying with compatibility at times.  Made the machine a lot slower and it’s fairly new.

Where was I?  Not much else happened besides a bounce house place for Christmas, seeing old friends yesterday, and steadily heading toward the debut.  I’ll need to find out about Crossing Bedlam cover art soon and begin the editing there.  I’m having a lot of trouble carving out writing time with everyone home.  My mom had elbow surgery to get the hardware out from her old injury, so she’s home for a few weeks.  That means everyone is here and space is limited.  My plan was to edit Crossing Bedlam before the break ends, but it’s looking more like I won’t be touching it until Wednesday if even then.

On the plus side, I made a plan for January.  With Delvin getting his story out this week and Lloyd and Cassidy debuting in February, I don’t want to tackle the next Legends of Windemere volume.  So I’ll edit Bedlam, write the next Ichabod, tackle the Raven’s Hold sequel, and begin editing Book 12 before I sink my teeth into the big goal of 2016.  That goal is to write the final 3 books of Legends of Windemere, which won’t be released until 2017.  I’d just like to have them in the bank and then I can figure out what to write next.  There’s that one-shot/epilogue book that could be a big spoiler for the entire series.  So I might have to start in on the Dawn Fang Civil War and wait a year for that one.

The Simpsons

That’s if I make it that far.  With the wife having trouble finding a job and tension running high around here, there has been the questioning on if it’s time for me to quit and get a ‘real job’.  This would end up being retail, food, or office work.  Sadly, me being out of the workforce for a few years can’t be explained or accepted very easily.  People think I’m dramatic for saying I’d have to quit, but I doubt any of those jobs would give me retweet or blog check breaks.  Writing would be a rarity since I’d get home tired and have to wrangle the kid into bed, which means I wouldn’t get to my laptop until 8:30 PM.  That’s maybe 1.5 or 2 hours to finish off email, blog comments, tweets, etc. and write a chapter section.  Anybody seeing how this simply won’t work as a balancing act?  I’m still making enough money to pay my half of our expenses, but without the wife working, we’re falling back into the hole.

Anyway, I’m not going to do a list since this week is going to be up in the air.  I’ll just end on a Red Band Trailer I’ve watched a few times and I think some people would like.  Red Band means it’s uncensored, so you get the cursing, lewd language, and violence.  Here we go: