Monthly Archives: May 2012

May
22

TMI Tuesday

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And by TMI, know that I’ll talk about it later, but needless to say *THIS* picture is a fair indication of how I’m feeling. (Except in my elbow, as opposed to being a pregnant unicorn. But it FEELS like there’s a little wasp trying to poke its way out of my skin, so close enough.) Also? Insurance companies suck. Especially when they argue with doctors about the medications that are needed by their patients.… Read more
May
21

Permission to Plan

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I find myself at a bit of a mental cross-roads these days when it comes to my writing. Part of this is because I still consider myself a panster – when I’m writing, I’ve got my daily word count and I attempt to meet it or do better and life is good. But with this latest book, I’m having to do more research and more planning, and even though its so important to the story as a whole, I still feel guilty if I’m not actually putting words on the page. (Never mind that it does me no good to write something that I’ll have to rework heavily later on because it will be out of sync with the plotting later.) Not sure what my issue is, quite frankly. Plotting is new for me and it’s hard to give myself the time to *do* it.  I suspect I’m afraid I’ll… Read more
May
18

*Tap Tap*

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Is this thing on? An author group I belong to recently had a discussion about marketing and social media, blog tours and giveaways and all the rest of it. Basically, there’s so much going on out there as far as promotion goes, and much of it gets laid at the feet of authors these days…and no one really seems to know if it makes a difference. Do people buy books because they get swag in the form of pens and postcards? Do mass blog tours and book giveaways increase sales or do they just encourage people to wait around to see if they’ll win something? Is blogging/tweeting/facebooking really that important? Or is it a just a time suck that keeps writers from writing books? Some days it just feels as though we’re in an empty room with a microphone. When all you hear is your own words echoing in your… Read more
May
17

ER ~ Word Whore ~ Fox & Willow Thursday

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Would have had this post up earlier, but I ended up in the ER for most of the morning/early afternoon with some sort of asthmatic reaction (from the mold/shower debacle of last week?) *shrugs* All I know is that between last night and this morning my throat was closing up and my chest was very tight and I couldn’t breathe too well. Hence the ER. All is well at the moment, though – I was given some meds and the rest of my tests came back normal, so I’ll be following up with a pulmonary doc next week, most likely. In the meantime, I’m getting an inspector out to the house tomorrow just to make sure we got everything out of the bathroom that needed to be removed. Whee. Otherwise – usual Thursday posts are up – it’s all about fairy tales over at Word-Whores today, so please come check… Read more
May
16

The Value of Words

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With A Trace of Moonlight coming out this fall, I’m starting to turn my eye toward my next bout of promo and swag and all the other things that may or might not improve sales. (And incidentally, there is a cover up over at Amazon and various other places, but it is a LEAKED cover – not the finished one and not of good size or quality. Rest assured I’ll post a final copy here once I’m allowed.) At any rate, one of the things I’ve noticed is that my Kindle books are getting tagged as being overpriced. Which is nothing new. My ebooks run the same price as the MMPB – and that’s the price set by the publisher. I have zero control over it. And I’m not objecting to people being unhappy with the prices – after all with so many books running around at the .99 price… Read more