Past Midnight

Wait, did the time change yet?

I finished off the covers for the next ten stories and updated the banners. Decided to just put up six banners. I'm thinking about having the banners just be for the upcoming stories. I'll take them down as stories go up and put up new banners.

For any who are curious about my method: I find covers help give me inspiration and story ideas, so I make the covers and title the stories before I write them. That's why the descriptions are un-helpful. I honestly don't know what the stories are about yet. I just saw and picture and went, "Ooh, that looks like something I want to write."

(I mean, I'm also just really bad at descriptions. But you probably knew that already, didn't you?)

All At Once

I lost my motivation. Oops.

No, I've got this. *stares at screen* *holds breath* *plays with earwax*

 I don't got this.

 I've designed the covers for the next stories (including a few sequels!) I just need to yank myself out of this funk and get back to writing. Okay, okay, here I go. (Picture me doing something dramatic like jumping out of an airplane here.) (Wait, if I was off writing the stories I wouldn't be here on this blog, would I? I have been found out! RUN!)

 *(In creative writing I was taught never to use 'suddenly' 'all at once' or any other phrase indicating suddenness. In a flash I began using them just to be contrary.)

Update: Okay, I've got the new story started FOR REALSIES. It's about race cars. Yeah, a bit of a divergence from the paranormal stuff, but I think it's pretty fun. Also apparently I'm declaring Friday and Saturday to be my weekend from daily story uploads, so it'll be up tomorrow morning and there will again be stories every day the rest of the week. *satisfied nod*

Now that that's settled, who's up for some more procrastinating?! (What do you mean I still have to write the rest of the story? Geez, shouldn't there be story elves to do this part or something?)

Vacation's End

With no more vacation days left (weep for me) I was forced to return to the day job today. Ah, well. I managed to finish Captured by the Vampire and I need to be asleep three minutes ago in order to get up for the day job tomorrow.

Anyway, I've uploaded Vampire so it's live on Smashwords and pending everywhere else.

In other news, my stories went free on google play! Woohoo! That only leaves Amazon and Barnes & Noble refusing to follow suit. Will wait and see how that turns out.

I'm getting pretty excited about trying out All Romance, but I'm pretty exhausted from work and I wasn't kidding about that needing sleep thing. (Damn shift work.) So, yeah. Maybe tomorrow, or maybe this weekend.

My biggest plan for this weekend is to write a longer story on Saturday and *gasp* actually charge money for it. Don't worry, it won't be much money. Sadly, the bank does not accept my hopes and dreams as payment and I need to keep up with the mortgage somehow.

A Bright New Day

The links are all live, the email is sent, the story is up! Woohoo! There's still plenty of pending vendors, but hopefully it'll show up before I confuse them further by uploading the next book. This week promises to be exciting. :)

Edit: It's now live on Barnes & Noble, linked on the book page. Yay! Google Play says it's live but I can't find it anywhere and there doesn't seem to be a way to get to the book page from the dashboard. So it theoretically exists on google. *awkward shrug*

I'm about 500 words into the new story. Breaking for lunch, chugging some liquid energy (yup, coffee) then getting back to it.

Update: And the new story is done and being uploaded! Woohoo! Also, I've decided I want to make my first four stories free instead of 0.99. So you can now get Captured by the Alien free on smashwords. I've also set Kobo to go free. We'll see if Amazon and Barnes and Noble price match. (If you want to help out, you can go on the book page and report lower price.)

Emails will go out to subscribers as soon as Captured by the Blurk goes live. It's a really short one, but I think it's pretty fun. I'll see about getting that one free as well.

I really like updates: Annnddd... finished with all the uploading and making free that can be done. You can currently get the second story on smashwords, and theoretically the first one is free on google play. Don't ask me how to find it there because I certainly can't.

Launch Day!

Woohoo! It's launch day! Busy putting everything together today. My first story will be up tomorrow, and after that there will be a new one every day. That's right, a new story every day!

My next step is to get the mailing list set up and maybe see about getting these dummy links I stuck on the website hot by building the pages. Eh. I don't really need pages, do I? There's pretty empty links, isn't that all you need?

Edit: Got the important things done! The email list is up, and the contact page is live. The rest of the links are still just pretending, but I'll get them going as I get books up. Oh, right. I have to write the books.

Yet another update: I've now uploaded the first story to kindle, kobo, nook, and google play. Having some trouble with smashwords since apparently they require separate accounts for separate pen names. And I can't seem to figure out how to log out... (Seriously, did they hide the sign out button?)

I'll send out an email when everything goes live. Or, at least when something goes live.

xoxoxo

Last update I swear: Got smashwords working. I think it's available there now? In my experience, smashwords takes forever to send it everywhere else, so don't be expecting it on itunes or sony for a while. Next weekend I'll see about setting up an all romance account so I can start putting things there, too. Right now I am exhausted from dealing with vendors and will pretend they don't exist until tomorrow morning when I check to see what's live and send the first email.

Peace out. Sleep long and prosper.

I will come up with a cool ending catch phrase. Just wait.