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  • Social Media Posting In December

    You’ve all been doing it, right? You know, posting posts about your content? Pointing out your books to people who might want to see your point? It’s the holiday season, really the shopping season, the season to sell, sell, sell – or not. Sales are good. Sales aren’t everything. But this is the season for…

  • Before Black Friday

    It is the day before the day before Black Friday. US Thanksgiving is tomorrow. The bird is thawing. First round of dishes washed. A day of baking and cooking will commence. And. Anyone selling retail, like authors, can be spending time trying to prepare for selling their goods (even if they’re bad books) on Black…

  • Unboxing And Delivering

    The next phase begins. Muddling By has been launched! But that’s just the end of the first act. Now for the transition from introverted writer to extroverted author. This morning, both behind and ahead of schedule, my first box of books arrived. Books in a box are fine, but my day off became a day…

  • How A Book Can Begin

    Some people plan. I even had a job that required it, and I enjoyed it. And then there are those events that spring up on a mix of whim and opportunity. I live northwest of Seattle. There was a family celebration happening on an island in North Carolina. I decided to drive there and back…

  • Whidbey Island Comicon – 2025 – After

    Hey! They asked me back! Er. They asked for me back. Hmm. They asked me to return. ‘They’ were the organizers of last year’s Galaxy Edge event where I was a panelist because I was local, and a writer of science fiction. (Firewatcher, Fire Race) This year, a name change for them. For me, it’s…

  • Whidbey Island Comicon – 2025

    The quick post to social media: Back for my third year as a guest speaker at theWhidbey Island Comicon – this weekend ! (July 18-20).Cool.See you there.(Details to follow, as time allows, eh?)address: 390 NE Midway Blvd, Oak Harbor, WAhttps://www.whidbeyislandcomicon.org/ The longer post: What? Whoa! Yay! Eep! I just got the word that the event…

  • When A Sale Is A Donation

    Donation donated. That’s satisfying, and also never enough. I sold a book! That’s not grand news, but a specific book sold in a specific way that meant I donated the proceeds to a charity. That’s the satisfying part. Understanding the need is why I also know it barely helps, yet I do it anyway. I…

  • Cover Art Prep

    What to do in the gap between finishing the third draft of Muddling By (working title) and the fourth draft? Take a vacation, right? Ha! I did set aside the writing, but my brain popped up creating the book cover. As if there wasn’t enough to do writing the book. Years ago, I heard some…

  • Care

    Care. Care what you write about. I care about writing this, and I won’t apologize to everyone who doesn’t care I wrote it. Writing about what you care about seems so simple. Why else write? (Unless you’re getting paid and you need the money.) But also be careful. It is April 2025. I do not…

  • Books – Old Official New

    Some days are simply writers days. The title of the post may be overly concise, but including everything from today would be very wordy.How about, ‘An Old Book An Official Book The Next Book‘?Skip the suspense. Today, I got another new copy of my book about tea tales, Kettle Pot Cup; and got an official…