Finally Home has been live for 1 week now and there have been 4 downloads not including my own from using my credits. Remember this is available on amazon.com as well as audible.com and itunes. Hope those of you who have downloaded the audio book have enjoyed hearing Sienna reading. Drop me a line if you have gotten an audio copy and let me know what you think.
Just to let you know that when there is a second book, hopefully Sienna will be available to do the reading again. Right now, I'm leaning towards The Mysterious Bookshoppe: A Kelly Watson Mystery and go from there. This, of course, is a work in progress and may end up changing as I progress, but I do know that the bookstore holds many mysteries, not of the book type though, perhaps of the ghostly type or some otherly world type. See you all in the postings - E :)
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Thursday, July 04, 2013
Friday, May 24, 2013
Just Call Me Slack
It has been 3 weeks since my last post and I have no excuse for it other than to say that I have been slack all around. I got a new computer in April and about 2-1/2 weeks later had to return it due to the fact that the scroll on the touchpad didn't work and the system was slow, albeit faster than what is in my dinosaur of a computer now, and apparently had the wrong operating system as nothing really seemed to work like it was supposed to. I did notice there were some Windows 7 files on what was supposed to be a Windows 8 based computer. Even wor tech support guys said the system wasn't operating properly and that I should take it back. Now I'm back on my old laptop again and can't take it with me anywhere due to the monitor being broken at the hinges and the slightest movement causes me to lose my ability to see anything on the screen other than a bunch of lines, meaning I have to hibernate the old thing and then turn it back on to get my screen back.
So slack days should be over and I hope to get back to posting on a more regular basis.
UPDATE ON AUDIO BOOKS: Finally Home has had the once over listen through (and yes, I was very slack when it came to going through the narrations) and I've sent some suggested changes to the narrator. Sienna did a great job for the most part and as stated previously, if I were to pick a person to play Kelly or how I pictured Kelly, she would be the perfect fit.
State of Successes has been completed and I'm waiting on Heather to get the final cover to me to upload that so I can finalize the production of that book. It looks like the state books will be published audio wise before Finally Home but that's okay - all in due time.
I will probably submit the contract to Francene in June to work on State of Wilderness next. August will be State of Heights and September or October will be State of Nature. I'm also looking into a sponsor for the state series to hopefully get them back on track, but more on that when I find a sponsor and the money is flowing in to pay the bills (Heather, printing, et cetera), which will p robably be posted on the JGDS blog when I have updates.
FAMILY NEWS: Youngest son, who is now living with my parents and my oldest son, got his GED and has finally gotten a job, working in the same plant oldest son is but on opposite days (when oldest is working, youngest is off and vice versa). The last I heard was when they get established a bit more they plan on moving out on their own. I don't think it is a good idea due to the fact that my parents' aren't in any condition to really be left taking care of themselves; more or less, my father would have to take care of my mother (she is pretty much in an Alzheimer state) and himself (he has back problems and is having to use a walker to get around and possibly heading to wheelchair or some sort of hoveround craft to get around among many other illnesses). I would prefer that my parents have someone around to help out but who am I to say what the boys will do in the next few months. I guess when I go up there for the High Country Festival of the book next month (June 21 at Watagua High School in Boone, NC) I'll find out everything. Daughter who had moved to West Virginia in November and back home in February finally got a job. She starts next Thursday for training and then goes directly to work at the store she will be working (training is in one town and store she will be working is in our county seat town). So that is the best news for her since she has been without a job since moving back home and has been driving me nuts - constantly on the go and begging her father and me for money all the time; I just hope she will be saving her money and not be on the go as much (working second or third shift, she won't have time to go galavanting all the time).
School is out in Utah and I've not had any classroom visits with them in over a month and I miss them. Taught my POV sessions and then they had state testing and worked on a project for the town and then end of year reviews and studying. I look forward to working with the next group of students in the fall. Just to let teachers and librarians know, I am available for school visits as per my website and I will do virtual classroom visits as well.
Bring on the Summer and hopefully lots of good news to report and more books being published. See you all in the postings - E :)
So slack days should be over and I hope to get back to posting on a more regular basis.
UPDATE ON AUDIO BOOKS: Finally Home has had the once over listen through (and yes, I was very slack when it came to going through the narrations) and I've sent some suggested changes to the narrator. Sienna did a great job for the most part and as stated previously, if I were to pick a person to play Kelly or how I pictured Kelly, she would be the perfect fit.
State of Successes has been completed and I'm waiting on Heather to get the final cover to me to upload that so I can finalize the production of that book. It looks like the state books will be published audio wise before Finally Home but that's okay - all in due time.
I will probably submit the contract to Francene in June to work on State of Wilderness next. August will be State of Heights and September or October will be State of Nature. I'm also looking into a sponsor for the state series to hopefully get them back on track, but more on that when I find a sponsor and the money is flowing in to pay the bills (Heather, printing, et cetera), which will p robably be posted on the JGDS blog when I have updates.
FAMILY NEWS: Youngest son, who is now living with my parents and my oldest son, got his GED and has finally gotten a job, working in the same plant oldest son is but on opposite days (when oldest is working, youngest is off and vice versa). The last I heard was when they get established a bit more they plan on moving out on their own. I don't think it is a good idea due to the fact that my parents' aren't in any condition to really be left taking care of themselves; more or less, my father would have to take care of my mother (she is pretty much in an Alzheimer state) and himself (he has back problems and is having to use a walker to get around and possibly heading to wheelchair or some sort of hoveround craft to get around among many other illnesses). I would prefer that my parents have someone around to help out but who am I to say what the boys will do in the next few months. I guess when I go up there for the High Country Festival of the book next month (June 21 at Watagua High School in Boone, NC) I'll find out everything. Daughter who had moved to West Virginia in November and back home in February finally got a job. She starts next Thursday for training and then goes directly to work at the store she will be working (training is in one town and store she will be working is in our county seat town). So that is the best news for her since she has been without a job since moving back home and has been driving me nuts - constantly on the go and begging her father and me for money all the time; I just hope she will be saving her money and not be on the go as much (working second or third shift, she won't have time to go galavanting all the time).
School is out in Utah and I've not had any classroom visits with them in over a month and I miss them. Taught my POV sessions and then they had state testing and worked on a project for the town and then end of year reviews and studying. I look forward to working with the next group of students in the fall. Just to let teachers and librarians know, I am available for school visits as per my website and I will do virtual classroom visits as well.
Bring on the Summer and hopefully lots of good news to report and more books being published. See you all in the postings - E :)
Saturday, May 19, 2012
SC Book Festival Day #1
The book festival's doors opened at 10 a.m. For a good bit there was a steady stream of folks walking the vendor hall and looking. I saw a lot of familiar faces and even made a connection I was hoping to make this weekend (a little later than I had hoped to do so, but I'm glad she showed up when she did). Sarah says she sold 11 books today, but it seemed she sold more but who knows. I sold two copies of Sybil Nelson's Priscilla the Great and nothing else bookwise. No state stories; none of Finally Home and none of the Leslie Dubois books or Little Prince Publishing books that were available (Sybil = Leslie = Little Prince Publishing who actually publishes a couple of different authors besides Sybil/Leslie).
Now don't feel too bad for me with no book sales. I did sell 25 of my bookworms. Not enough to cover a lot of expenses on the trip but enough to get me dinner and gas in the van and some water and/or a couple of candy bars.
Overall I think it was a good day. --- See you all in the postings - E :)
Now don't feel too bad for me with no book sales. I did sell 25 of my bookworms. Not enough to cover a lot of expenses on the trip but enough to get me dinner and gas in the van and some water and/or a couple of candy bars.
Overall I think it was a good day. --- See you all in the postings - E :)
Thursday, October 23, 2008
SCWW Conference time is here
It's that time of year again. I will be heading to the beach (Myrtle) for the SCWW Muse Writer's conference. I will be attending as a volunteer again this year (I can't afford the conference plus the hotel and travel, so volunteer status it is). Maybe when my series takes off the group will ask me to be a guest speaker (I can hope, can't I?).
This weekend is also state competition which I will miss again. But I will be there in spirit and hoping that they do well.
Updates from the conference upon my return. See you all in the postings. E :)
This weekend is also state competition which I will miss again. But I will be there in spirit and hoping that they do well.
Updates from the conference upon my return. See you all in the postings. E :)
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