It seems like forever since I’ve posted an ROW80 update. Here’s where I am.

Starfane is now in print on CreateSpace and Amazon. I need to put a link to my paperbacks on my book page. Right now I only have my ebooks linked (and I didn’t have all of those until Kait busted me on it), and suddenly I’m like, duh, people MIGHT want the paperbacks. I have sold a few paperbacks of Haunted Lake, so that proves some people still like books in their hands.

The last novella in the Libby Fox series, Search for the Vampires’ Curse, is ready to be published. I’m also publishing a free short story, The Beast in the Mirror, on Smashwords. I haven’t decided if I’m going to put it on Amazon for .99, then tell them about a lower price so it can be free. I’m afraid someone will buy it at .99 then be mad when it goes free. We’ll see. Now that I have U-Verse internet at home, I can actually publish from there instead of trying to rush to get it done during my lunch hour at work! 🙂

In anticipation of the release of these two stories, I’m revealing the covers right now. These are designed by Anya Kelleye at Anya Kelleye Designs

I’ve gotten about half of my last Libby Fox book proofed and edited. Novellas are so much easier to edit than novels! Did I really say I was going to concentrate on novels instead of novellas for awhile? Yes, yes I did. But I digress. Anyway, I hope to finish up the editing tonight, then it will be off to a couple of beta readers (one read it kind of as I wrote it). I hope to have this ready to publish in a couple of weeks.

I got my print proof of Starfane back. CreateSpace is so fast! I had the proof about three days after I ordered it. It all looks good to me, so I approved it and it’s already for sale on its on page on CreateSpace. It should be available at Amazon within a week.

Next on the printing front is a compilation of three of my earlier novellas, Club Blood, See Me, and Guardian Vampire. I jokingly told everyone I should call it “Loving the Dead and the Undead”, since there are two vampire stories and a ghost story. Surprisingly, a BUNCH of people actually liked the title. So I might use that. 🙂

How is everyone else? Are the holidays making you crazy while you’re trying to write?

I check my book sales every day and keep a spreadsheet. I always count “yesterday’s sales” because those should always be closed by the next day. On December 1 I checked the sales for Nov. 30 and added them to my spreadsheet. The next day they were gone! Then, on December 2, I checked sales for December 1 and recorded them on my spreadsheet. Today, I’m showing NO sales for December 1! Once again, they disappeared! Are we going to have the same repeat as last year when sales were disappearing? What is UP with B and N?

On a brighter note. We built our house in 1999 and still didn’t have any kind of picture on the wall behind our dining room table. I don’t know if I mentioned this, but when I got back from Disney, my husband had bought us a new dining set. So we decided we needed to finally decide on a picture for the back wall.This is the picture we bought. There’s something about it that speaks to me. It makes me want to write a story about it. 🙂