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Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Inundated by tasks

I ran out of envelopes a while back and so I ended up with a backlog of author stuff I needed to mail out, and then today there were two more things, so I ended up printing out envelopes, addressing mailers etc and that took longer than I expected. But if someone asks for bookmarks or what have you, I feel bad just stuffing them in an envelope and mailing them off, so I write a little note (really really little) and then stuff it etc. A Waldenbooks also asked for material. That was exciting. I've heard some people say bookstores don't want that stuff, and others do, but don't send a lot or send at least 100 of each. What's a poor author to do? Fortunately, this request came with a number so that was easy. But, I mailed off my taxes to my CPA and now I have to go back to mail all this other stuff. Plus, I have to come up with a Julius Caesar costume for my son. Natually, I googled it. It's appalling how many web sites equate How to make a toga with How to get drunk and party ARGH! But, I do have a diagram that has nothing to do with beer, hooters or parties.

And, today I posted (plogged?) to Amazon Connect about Jade Lee's blog give away (scroll throgh the posts, you'll find it) and today there have been several comments to the that post so even though I was skeptical about Amazon Connect, I guess I that was misplaced.

Lastly, I'm in a mood again, and it's not even dark yet. Why am I in a mood? Because I have heard nothing from editor or agent land and seriously, I've been thinking lately, why am I bothering with this? Obviously no one is paying attention to me. And why should they? Sigh. Sometimes being a writer is difficult in ways you just don't anticipate.

Ok, in writing news, I got a lot done on Dark Elf yesterday and plotted out today's work so I know what I'll be doing tonight, aside from the hopeless hack mind games.

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