I’m down to about the last…five or so…Murphy Lawless books to update. The paranormal romances HAVE been vastly easier than the rest of the books, as anticipated, because they were all already in the right software, but man my brain is fried from doing these. I just want to be done. And I probably will be this afternoon, but whiiiiiiiine. Aside from that, I’m…what am I doing. I’m writing a little. I’m trying to do the thing I BELIEVE in my HEART that I can do, which is have a…
So a massive part of this never-ending admin has been a long-standing need to convert most of my CE Murphy titles into the book-making software I’m currently using. I’d done, eh, half or so, of them previously, but even that stuff needs a certain amount of regular updating. It gets easier with each iteration of the software, but still: basically, scut work. I spent a full day doing the ‘easy’ stuff, the stuff that only required a relatively minor update to the backmatter to be ok, which got me through…
how annoyed am i that that rhymes and ‘state of the catie’ doesn’t I had a dream of knocking out 50K a month several times this year. So far I’ve not yet cracked 100K for the year. I realize it is only the 2nd of April and there’s plenty of time to do the former despite the latter. I’m still depressed about it. :p And, like, yes, I had revisions the first working week of the year, and then I went afk for several working days, and then I had…
I stayed up too late last night to watch Cory Booker smash that old racist bastard’s filibuster record into dust, and it was fully worth it. As soon as I woke up this morning, I picked up my phone to see how long he’d held the floor in the end, and the first thing I saw was “Pour one out for Madmartigan, lads.” So between Cory Booker, Val Kilmer, & a lack of sleep, I’m pretty emotionally compromised this morning (which, phrased like that, sounds like it’s much more scandalous than…
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…