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After a lot of trouble-shooting, I finally managed to upload the files for Home Staging in a Hurry to the Kindle store. It’s bargain priced at $1.99, just as it is over at Smashwords (where it has been selling, slowly, for the last 18 months)
We’re still working on pulling together the cyborg parts stories into one package, in the meantime I am pondering what else I can add to my Kindle store. What do you want to see? More stuff by me or more titles that Mike & I co-author? Fiction? Non-fiction? Or just “More”?
I would love to add a lot more to my Kindle store. The trick for me is taking the time to write — I’ve been reading more lately and that’s strangely a problem. I find in my media balance I tend to trade reading for writing and visa versa. I think this is because both require focus away from my usual location in the living room, web surfing, and watching TV or film or whatever. I can blog and often write short articles while in this multi-tasking/attention-sucking environment but fiction and long-form non-fiction require more focus. If Mike or Kiddo decide to get in some gaming, I can slip into my own focused world via headphones and some music. It’ll also be easier once there’s no prime-time shows holding my attention, then I can slip away and write.
Last summer, I asked you to tell me what my priorities should be; that led to my working on Undead for NaNoWriMo and on through December. It’s lingering in my Google Docs now, whimpering for attention. Some of the other projects have fallen off the list altogether and others have been added.
High on the list in my head right now are (not in priority order):
- Undead — I really want to finish a draft of this before the end of the summer
- a couple of ebooks related to my Unofficial Guide to Victoria — one for Afternoon Tea and another for Gardens of Victoria I think. I also need to update and add more restaurant reviews.
- Urban Haiku — I need to organize a day and find some willing folks to be zombies, hipsters, and other urban archetypes for a photo shoot so that I have sufficient images for illustrating my wee poems about coffee, zombies, and urban angst.
- a collection of short fiction — flash fiction and other short-short stories that are lingering in my Docs folder.
- my dark novel as yet untitled but possibly “Disco is not a valid lifestyle choice.” I started this as a short story in 2006 then built it into a novel the first time I attempted NaNoWriMo. It was never finished and thought to be lost but I recently unearthed it, along with the plot notes I’d sketched. This will have to wait until Undead is at least in first full draft form.