I am a crazy woman. How’s that for some words? LOL
Things are just this side of total insanity and I hope it’s just start of the co-op year drama and will settle down shortly. If not, well … let’s not go there just yet.
BIG WORD: The Box Under The Bed, the anthology I contributed to, is doing mad work on Amazon, in and out of the top ten and it isn’t even out yet. Our entries are being considered for inclusion in the year’s best horror. And you can still get it on e-book for the pre-order price of 99 cents. Yup, 99 cents.
Corollary to the big word: Despite extensive efforts by our editor, my name was not working correctly as a contributor for the book. When I tried to claim in, that didn’t even work. So I had to contact Author Central Support.
duh-duh-duh
They have this little form you fill out. You can call, snort, or email. As I am filling in the email, the little box says, are you sure you don’t want to call, less than a minute of wait time. Hrm, I have 19 minutes until I have to be in class, ok. I click call me. They call and put me on hold. Suddenly the average wait time is 2 minutes. ok. After nine minutes they hang up on me. LOL. I emailed. And Amazon actually fixed the problem within 24 hours! Note the date.
I am part way through the oral recitation of my spy novel. I know what you’re thinking, oral what? So I read my work out loud to my hubs who follows along on paper and points out all my mistakes as well as all the times I read something other than what is on the paper and when it sounds better. LOL It is time consuming but it catches a lot of oops and my dialogue is always better for it. It’s one of the last things I do before publication.
The cover design is jamming along. I actually think it’s almost perfect which means I need to get my s-h-i-t together and write the back blurb and get new author pics taken. I want to do something fun that goes with this genre.
I am aiming for an early November release date. More on that when a few more t’s are crossed.
T.A. Henry 
I love your oral recitation, if only my husband would do the same! My version is to use my screen reader to read it to me, chapter-by-chapter, while I follow and highlight anything I think needs changing/fixing, then when I’ve gone through the highlights, I screen-reader it again to check I haven’t introduced any new oopsies. I’ve picked up some silly things that I’d read time and time again without seeing!
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Laughing. I love to do it my voice because I inflect as I read. And my amazing hubs actually picks up on that. “I didn’t read it that way, the way you are saying it.” Then we stop and I rewrite on the spot. I really should give the man co-credit on all my books. LOL.
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Congrats! Glad you pushed yourself out of your comfort zone to do the horror anthology. 🙂
I’m so excited your spy novel is so close to completion…Awesome!!
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Thank you!
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