I’d intended to spend this past Sunday working on covers for the six upcoming titles needing them. Instead, I was viciously attacked by a sinus headache that took me down as though I were made of tissue paper.
Yep, wadded me up and tossed me in a corner.
What a way to start my week.
Winter arrived here in West Texas, with a bit of snow, freezing temps and today, wind. Yay. Not.
In spite of it, we’ll be loading up here in a few hours to trek to the city and purchase doors, primer, paint and counter top that will be my desk top for my office. Carpeting may or may not follow next week.
What I’m skirting around is the fact that I’ve gotten jack all done towards finishing Arcane Solutions up. My Story Tamer’s been busy with visiting relatives, so the final edits for The Silent One are on temporary hold.
The very last thing I needed was a Kithran slinking up to purr about a blonde and her very interesting planet. Damn Kithrans.
I did try to shove him into a closet, but he’s bigger than I am. There are battles I can’t win, and this was one of them. Roughly 4k later, he’s agreed that I may have a break.
[glances over shoulder] I’m not sure my idea of ‘a break’ and his match up.
Also, something I’ve kept meaning to mention is that Smashwords announced it has brokered a distribution deal with Amazon.
Opting in means an author/publisher receives 42.5% of the retail instead of 35% distributing directly through Amazon. Smashwords standard take is 15%. If that’s what their percentage is on this deal, then Amazon is receiving 42.5%.
Which means a 50/50 split of sorts now.
Better. Of course, we’re having to wait to see how Amazon is going to handle our titles already directly distributed through them that have been opted in through Smashwords. Be silly to issue another ASIN for them, but I know we want that 42.5% over that 35%.
So we’ll see how that all shakes out.
And I’ve run out of things to say. Laters. 
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