It’s been a while since I made any promotional material. I forgot to do this for Monday’s post, forgot it yesterday, but remembered it today…(Well, I remembered it yesterday really, because I wrote today’s post then, but you know what I mean.) I also almost forgot how to do it and what to include! D’uh!
Anyway, I can now announce that WORDS WORTH READING: ISSUE ONE was published on Monday 9 September. This includes the print edition. The ebook was published a couple of weeks ago because I forgot we can’t put a release date on KDP.
Find it, and all my other books, here. Click the image to take you straight to WORDS WORTH READING.
I had to publish it separately on KDP because the Kindle bots don’t like it if they find any part of a publication available anywhere else online and will throw it back to an aggregator. Hence, Draft2Digital can’t distribute there.
However, D2D do provide an epub (and a pdf) of the book so all you have to do is upload it all to KDP with its own Kindle ISBN. (Ebooks don’t need ISBNs but I choose D2D and KDP ISBNs anyway.) Because D2D provide the epub files, though, I can also publish it to Google Play Books, which D2D doesn’t include.
Now that the bookazine has been published, the individual brand-new stories inside will be drip-released as standalones, from early November, and then in various collections.
These stories have also jumped from my power (Nobo) board and into my power (open office) spreadsheet, where I’ll keep track of where they’ve been published. This includes WORDS WORTH READING, the newsletter, the various collections, and on D2D, KDP and Google Play Books.
When the stories or pieces of work have jumped off my power board and onto my power spreadsheet, the T-cards are turned around and used again. The power board, if you remember, follows a story from first whiff of an idea (percolation) through planning, writing, cooling, revising, proofreading and publishing. Publishing includes submissions to market as well as in the bookazine.
Writing this reminded me that I need to do more marketing, but at the moment I don’t have time to look into it a great deal. Instead, I took an hour and I rebooted my Medium profile. I paid for the annual membership a few months ago but haven’t even visited since, and I had to add the bookmark to my safari in any case.
So I went over there, imported the last 5 or 6 days of blog posts, formatted them, checked the illustration, and bookmarked them so they appear in my writing list at the top of the page.
Despite neglecting it for more than a year, I still get money from Medium every month. So to catch up, I opened up half a dozen stories to read at leisure throughout the day, in between Pomodoros. I started to create a new publication of my own, but it needed too much thought I didn’t have time for. So that’s been put on ice for now.
If I make my sub back, I’ll be happy. Anything above that is a bonus. I may not write original material for Medium, although I will be updating previously published material and trying to place that. I may also revive my NetGalley reviewing and to hell with upsetting people with the truth, because there’s a publication on Medium that used to take my book reviews.
Other side hustles in revival this week are:
- playing games that pay money rather than in gift cards
- completing paid surveys
- entering monetary competitions
I can do all of those without any impact on my writing, but I’ll still take any editing or proofreading that comes to me, I just won’t be hunting it down. The ghostwriting is definitely a thing of the past as it completely drained both my time and my creative well.
That done, I turned to the day’s big job: writing a story for 12 STORIES IN 12 MONTHS, deadline TODAY!
I wanted to write a story called or based on TERRORS FROM THE TOYBOX, but I couldn’t get going with that one. Instead I wrote a ghost story. I’ll write TERRORS FROM THE TOYBOX another time.
