On the admin front, I’m doing something that my EXTREMELY GOOD AT MARKETING friend Elva Birch (author of a number of paranormal romances far exceeding mine, a bunch of which I’ve edited) has been telling me to do for…a very long time…and which I am finally, for reasons I cannot explain, actually managing to get done now.
Actually, the reasons are probably “because I finally broke down and got that Bookfunnel account, and now I have the tools to do all the things she told me to.”
Anyway, she’s been telling me forEVER that I need to write story snippets as draws (“magnets,” we call them professionally, us professional types) to my newsletter, and last week I whined about it at her and she told me I was totally overthinking it and it doesn’t have to be a STORY, it just has to be a…well, a snippet. Her example was “they paid some bills and then had great sex on the kitchen table.” Which. LOL. That did clarify to me how much I was overthinking it, anyway. :D
So I’m doing that. So far no one has paid bills and had sex on the kitchen table, but I’ve done several, all week with a sinus headache, which is not a super fun state to be doing the grind work of admin in. OTOH I’m not sure trying to write anything meaningful in this condition would be any better, either, so at least I’m getting something done. A lot, actually.
Okay. I’m going to go write a new snippet and then if I’m a very good moral upstanding human being I’ll do the other thing that I knew what it was when I started this sentence but now can’t remember.
Oh. Write up more how-to admin stuff for my husband. Yeah. That. If I got that done I’d be really swell.