Take a weekend away from home and walk through quaint settings where you can relax and color a world where time stops and only beauty exists. With a variety of different hand selected landscape images for you to create mindfulness and promote relaxation with, any colorist is sure to find something to love in this book. This colorbook offers single sided pages and a variety of complexity to suit any coloring whim. Sit back and relax as you bring this beautiful world to life.
(This post is a little video heavy, but . . . eh.)
To give an update on last week’s headache: Through many tears and rants, we got things settled in the insurance arena. A long, hard fought battle that landed us . . . with the same insurance plan and company we started with. Don’t ask how that happened because even we don’t know. Especially since we were told mid-week that things didn’t look good. Now we only need to solve the job/money issue and have life stop curb stomping us in the gonad. I stand by my statement.
This weekend will be busy and so will the next one. Saturday is errands and appointments because tomorrow is ‘Batman vs Superman’. Then a lunch as a really early birthday celebration for me. My birthday is April 9th, but that weekend has been claimed by the younger generation of the family. No problem with that. I get to bring my son to a bouncy castle, zipline, play place that will be a blast for him. Rather that be what causes me to celebrate early/late than Passover, which is the Anti-Cake Holiday.
I finished writing Ritual of the Lost Lamb, which means I start a month of small projects. My son has the last week of April off, so there’s no way I can outline Path of the Traitors and write it. Apparently, ‘lamb’ and ‘traitors’ aren’t words according to the Google spellchecker thing I have on. Anyway, this means I’ll be focusing on a variety of smaller tasks. Those will simply be listed on the goal list. Given how exhausted I’ve been the last couple of weeks, it might be a good idea to take it easy. My energy starts to die just after lunch. Part of it might be awkward sitting positions and the weather being wackier than a Loony Tune. It was high 60’s/low 70’s yesterday and tomorrow morning, we might get some snow. My sinuses and energy despise this. Might be another reason I haven’t been very social too. Well, this paragraph got strange.
Monster Hat!
April and May are always busy months, which means I never know exactly how much I will get done. Lots of holidays and birthdays. My hope is to get the next Windemere book released in May. There have been a few delays on that front, so fingers are crossed. I’ll still be starting the hype this month and into the next. Fun stuff revolving around barbarians, chaos elves, honor, and Windemere. Honestly, Timoran Wrath rarely gets a spotlight, so I hope people are interested in him. Not to mention Trinity gets a big push in the next book. Choosing teasers for the Tuesday thing might be tough. We’ll see how I do there. It’s nearly impossible to pick a spot that doesn’t reveal a secret in the story or the one thing I’ve managed to keep off the blog.
That isn’t to say I don’t have anything going on this month. After much discussion, I’ve decided to attempt something that will need some promotional help. I’m not going to say what it is yet. The plan was to ask for volunteers for this mystery thing yesterday, but then I remembered it was April Fool’s Day. Instead, I’ll make a late day post in regards to this and the next book release. Again, I won’t be saying what this is because I can’t get the wheels moving until middle of next week. Will this secret thing work to boost the piddly sales? No idea, but it’s worth a shot. I feel like I have the energy and right mood to give a shot too.
Speaking of sales, I’ve got no idea what’s going on with mine. The line graph looks decent considering I haven’t released a new Windemere book in 3 months. On the other hand, none of the numbers move. Well, the rankings do, but in the wrong direction. Honestly, I just want to write and create. Feels like it takes more effort to do that too. I used be able to write a ton in one day. Then it was 3 chapter sections. Lately, it’s been 1-2 sections with me getting tired rather quickly. I do tend to wander off while thinking about the scene, so maybe I’m only being careful this far into the series. No idea really.
Goals for the week?
Outline Path of the Traitors.
Ask for volunteers for next book release and special project.
Activate special project.
Make a few May blog posts.
Start creating characters for Chasing Bedlam.
If not #5 then start working on outline for Sin’s 3rd book.
Pick up pre-ordered copy of Star Wars: Force Awakens.
Sleep when tired.
Poke at the Windemere superhero stories like an idiot.
See ‘Batman vs Superman’ tomorrow.
Never give up the biking.
Watch DVD’s while creating. Current series is an anime:
As promised here is the next new release from the J and I Publishing Catalogue.
Description
Escape everyday life and relax with this charming colorbook filled with images of flight and fancy. From magical birds to fiery dragons, there is something here for every fantasy lover. Bring these single-sided images to life with your favorite coloring supplies and feel your tension ease as you use your wildest imagination to take these pictures from black and white to colorful artistic creations. Hand selected images with a variety of complexity to suit your every coloring whim.
Tis the Day of Pranks
Where nothing is what it seems
Or everything is true
Paranoia settles in
With no escape until the dawn
Traps are lurking
Yet maybe they are not
Is that friend genuine
Or coaxing you into their web?
For one day
Everyone is out to get you
Unless they are not
The real truth is
You will never know
Books have power. Things are as simple as that. You read a book and it can change you even in a minor way. Maybe just a smile whenever you think of a favorite scene or a curse when you remember the horrible ending. Those are rather ‘cosmetic’ compared to a book that makes you see the world differently. So, let’s get on with the fun:
What book created a positive change or influence on your life and why?
Has a book ever had a negative effect on you that continued after you stopped reading?
Can you think of a story that would benefit from the addition of orcs?
Welcome to today’s edition of Lisa Burton Radio. I’m your host, Lisa Burton, the robot girl. We have a very special guest with us today, Talla the goblin girl.
Today’s show is sponsored by The Goblin Trilogy, by Jaq D. Hawkins. Our Guest, Talla, appears in these stories. Welcome to the show Talla.
“Um, hello.”
“This story takes place after a geological polar shift. This leaves kind of a mess. What can you tell us about it? Listeners want to know what’s lost, and what’s left.”
“What you call a polar shift, we call the Turning, because the planet turns over. Land masses change and high winds destroy much of what is on the surface. The place above the caverns where I live was a great city of humans, now the buildings they made are all damaged, some reduced to rubble. It is a cleansing process, because the technology the…
A big chunk of an indie author’s life is promoting their books. Whether it’s available or about to come out, you need to spread the word. Yet, sometimes an author might go too far and things begin to unravel. At least mentally.
Your dreams appear in Twitter form and you are being chased by hashtags. Trending topics fly through the background, most of them either politics or celebrity gossip. The plus side is that you no longer have that nightmare about winning a badminton tournament and realize you’re naked.
You proudly declare that you made 14 tweets, 3 Facebook promos, 1 blog post, 4 Google+ promos, 2 author interviews, and 10 guest posts before lunch. Thankfully this declaration was on-line. That way nobody knows you failed to shower, eat breakfast, brush your teeth, get dressed, let the dog out, pack a lunch for the kids, get them to the bus, and have invested heavily in adult diapers. Still, each tweet has 4 retweets, so you’re sure it was worth it.
Your next book is 90% catchy phrases that can be used as promo quotes. The story line is in ruins because every sentence is no longer than 140 characters and you’re pretty sure the characters no longer have personalities. Still, this will make it so much easier to find quotable lines for the marketing campaign. I mean, who has the time to hunt through their own novel for such things?
You have run out of celebrities to bug on social media for endorsements and send copies of your book to. Some of them still talk to you, but mostly along the lines of threatening further legal action. Good news is that you now have the Guinness World Record for most active restraining orders held at one time.
After months of promoting the upcoming release, you are finally ready to show it to the world. The cover art is praised and desire is running high. People email you in the hopes of getting an early copy, but you don’t want to risk spoilers being leaked. One more day and you’ll give everyone what they want. Except for one problem: You may have forgotten to write the last of half of the book because you were so busy promoting it. So that’s why your editor kept asking for the real story before saying you aren’t funny and quitting.
You donated all of the family’s clothes to charity and replaced them with versions that show your book covers and sale links. Sure, it might have been a bad idea to send a 5-year-old into class with a shirt depicting a terrifying zombie. Yet, all of those kids will remember the title and spread the word to their therapists for years. At least that’s what you’re going to tell the Judge looking over the divorce proceedings.
Final day of fan art and we’re going with Delvin’s old mercenary crew, The Frozen Blades. Teaser Tuesday will be back in April. Enjoy more Windemere fan art from Kayla Matt!
Our spirit of inspiration
Gentle pixie on our shoulder
With her ink-stained wings
And body cloaked in paint
Flitting on the edge of thought
Heard just enough to guide our dreams
Her power is at our cores
Dwelling in our mind and heart
She balances upon a scale
Held aloft by our self-worth
Easily tipped to madness
And swallowed by despair
She is a fragile creature
That can break at any moment
Leaving us a twitching husk
Adrift in harsh reality
With no wings to help us soar
No voice to call us home
She cannot die for good
Unless we will it to be so
We can fight to bring her back
Absorb the pain that made her fall
Using it to forge new strength
And revive our fragile muse
