Post 33

Happy Friday, my duckies!

Sweet, sweet freedom beckons from another crippling week of boredom. Ugh. My soul weeps, gentle reader. Tears. But I am feeling remarkably productive. I seem to be in-taking much more fuel than usual, so obviously I am at a higher operating threshold than normal. Quite exciting.

I am experimenting with self-publishing. Since I have a day job and RESPONSIBILITIES, like some sort of brutal savage, I have elected to bow to the great authority of our Amazon gods and am using Kindle Direct Publishing to put my works out into the world. It’s fairly exciting. Now, I will apologize to any dear reader that elects to purchase one of these works…I am not super great at formatting yet, but each time gets a little better. Or so I tell myself.

Anyway. Tears of the People LIVES. It lives here, specifically:

Amazon - Tears of the People

Isn’t that neat? Freelance is also up there, ready for action. Or at least it will be once Amazon finishes its review. That one was much easier to edit. It’s a very easy, pleasant experience. Though I do need to quit making these large-print books. I mean, it’s nice not to have to strain your eyes to read the damn things, but I really should use a smaller type face. Ah well. It doesn’t matter. No one will actually buy these silly things. It’s more of closure for me to just wrap them up all nicely with a bow and move onto the next one.

I have some good ideas for Iron Road and Ramanujan that I really want to try out. These old stories just keep haunting me. Maybe if I just make them real books and send them away, they will stop bothering me.

So exciting!

Yes. So, in non-OSUZ504 works read this week, I finally finished Into the Distance. WONDERFUL. It’s an existential crisis rolled up in an adventure-history. I loved it. Shocking that it didn’t win the Pulitzer. Shocking. I wish I could write like that.

Yona of the Dawn 23 arrived this week as well. I have to admit, while I enjoyed it like always, I’m glad that we’re wrapping up Yona. The story feels like it needs to end soon, so I didn’t enjoy it as much as I expected. I’m at the place where I’m too excited for the end, so I want to skip over all the intermediate portions and just get straight to the good parts.

Should have all of the finished works published by next week and I can get back to actual writing. Ha. Got to do some real work, eventually, right? Happy Friday, gentle readers!

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