And here’s the tagline: After moving to a private island in upstate New York to provide nursing care for an elderly widow, Macy must uncover secrets from her past before they destroy her future.
I’m trying to spread the word far and wide. Would you consider reblogging and telling your friends? Every download counts!
Yeah, Yeah. I keep saying I shouldn’t do these posts on Saturday when nobody is paying attention. Though I’m posting the origin of Ichabod Brooks tomorrow, so this is the Goal Post day.
Not that I have a ton of stuff to say. Last weekend was busy with a trip to the small zoo, lunch at the mall, seeing a friend’s newborns, and the rest of Memorial Day weekend was a blur. In fact, the rest of the week is blurry. Errands, both planned and out of left field, happened. I didn’t come close to finishing the chapters that I wanted to, which is the big disappointment. With June having a few events, I don’t know if I’ll finish this by the end of the month. July is going to be equally chaotic with a trip and the little man’s birthday party. So many things going on that it’s a wonder I get anything done at all.
The parents return to the homestead today and that means a full house again. It also means I don’t get free reign of the desktop. The pretty, beautiful, big screen desktop that makes me realize my laptop is small, slow, and temperamental. I’ll be back to working in the hot bedroom on a bed with not much back support too. Might try to negotiate some desktop time like the morning after I do my biking or whenever my dad has to do something else. Kind of looking forward to the editing run over the summer since that won’t be as harsh. Still wondering if I should put Raven’s Hold in that set or if I’ll be willing to send it to beta readers. On the fence about that. The alpha reader liked it though.
Note to anyone who requested a guest post for the June 12-14 weekend where I’ll be Internet limited: Thank you and I will be sending the HTML or Word files as soon as I have the Ichabod Brooks link to add to it. I don’t know if I should put a message on the post that says I won’t be around much that weekend and that I’ll get to comments the following Sunday night or Monday. Seems like it isn’t that big a thing, but I don’t want to be rude.
That’s life here. Nothing really major happens that people would like blogging about. A big victory was getting the kid to eat hotdogs (though it was really bratwurst). All it took was plastic sword-shaped toothpicks and he’s now eating a teriyaki chicken and pineapple meatball with them. So what’s the goal for next week?
RELEASE AND PROMOTE ICHABOD BROOKS & CITY OF BEASTS!
Write more of Book 11.
Find a teaser for Tuesday.
Pick up bed rails and finally put the kid’s bed together. It shall achieve its final form! Seriously, it’s like a Dragonball Z villain at this point.
I don’t want to do any cooking this week.
Biking should return to a more consistent schedule.
Possibly catch up on some sleep.
Clean the stove and vacuum before the parents get home.
Might want to get the parents from the airport.
Handle invitations to a future party for 70th bday/70th bday/40th wedding anniversary. None of those involve me.
“Where does your light comes from?” is a question I ask myself when I paint or apply artistic effect to a photo.
Why does light matter in images?
While painting or drawing a clear point from which the subject is illuminated helps you establish dimension. It also makes your image more visually appealing. It helps to focus the eye on a certain part of the image which draws the viewer in. In other words it helps to establish a focus point.
When your image has a clear focus point, it will hold the attention of the viewer for longer. Images that make you feel are the ones that really capture your viewer.
Take a look at these examples. All the images are created from the same basic photograph of a dead tree. The picture was taken in natural sunlight, in direction with the sun.
Looking at what I have for Ichabod Brooks & the City of Beasts, I could probably set it up right now. It’s just that I have a feeling that this weekend might not be very good for a debut. Also my schedule is in the air.
So I’m wondering about setting it up now as a Pre-Order to get the Amazon site link. This means I can send off the mid-month guest posts, Goodreads, and the Monday ‘LIVE’ post. It takes some of the pressure off too. The thing is that I’ve never done this before and I’m not sure if it’s a good idea. More importantly, I don’t know if there’s a time limit and I’m too close to the release date to do a Pre-Order.
Has anyone out there ever done this? Do you think it’s worth doing a Pre-Order weekend to ease a potentially chaotic Monday and maybe net some extra attention? How do I even promote that?
Not long ago I made a post asking for help. It was maybe an hour ago. HERE!
Some people showed interest in putting up a guest blog on the weekend that I’ll be away from the computer. At best, I’ll be minimized. Anyway, there’s a challenge with that.
I blogged every day for 2 years straight and that covered a lot of topics. Without direction, I have no idea what to write about. So I’m looking at really old posts. Would anybody want to host one a re-purposed ‘Legends of Windemere’ classic with a book promo put on the top?
This does mean you’ll be trusting me to pick something fun and interesting. It’ll come in HTML format too, so pictures will be in the post. Let me know if this interests you and I’ll send you one next week when I have an Ichabod Brooks link. Now back to planning this trip and figuring out where in this overheated house the kid is.
You may have heard that I have a short story coming out on Monday for 99 cents. It’s called:
Ichabod Brooks & the City of Beasts
I’m excited and can’t wait to start promoting it while moving onto the next project. Except there’s a small snafu in the month of June.
Believe it or not, I’ll be going away from June 12th to the 14th. Since it’s this thing that involves the number 10, I’m not bringing my laptop. I’ll be scheduling all my posts and might be able to retweet and comment through the phone. Emails and keeping up with blogs will be rare during this weekend. Another factor is that I have no idea about the connection availability or permission from the wife. Still, I won’t be able to do any real promoting during that weekend and that can be trouble. Probably more troubling as spending a weekend without Mr. Mischief lurking in my shadow. At least I know the grandparents will keep him fed. Bathing, catching when he wakes up, and decent bedtimes are another matter entirely.
So I’m asking if anybody would be willing to help out by doing any of the following during that weekend:
Tweet about Ichabod Brooks or even a Windemere book.
Buy, read, and review Ichabod Brooks. (99 cents and 27 pages means a cheap, easy read. Just like the author!)
Make a blog or FB post about any of the books. Mostly Ichabod Brooks.
If you want me to whip up something quick then toss me a topic and I’ll be happy to do my best with that. I’ve got two weeks before the trip. Sad thing is that this might repeat itself on July 4th weekend, but there are more loopholes there. Anyway, I’ll be really appreciative of any help I can get with this. Thanks.
