A Far Out Fantastic Site

Credit: Pixabay November is often a small month compared to October and December that book-holds it. However, for me it has been a big month. That is, a month loaded with writing tasks. November has been a month of preparing my newest short story collection, "Bad Apps", for its beta release. It’s been a month of formatting the eight short stories into book form and making a clickable table of contents that will make it easier for readers to jump to each story. It's been a month of copying text from each story’s file, pasting it into the book manuscript’s file, and then reformatting those passages that's styles were either lost in the transition or came from a file that I did not think to format properly when I had first typed the story onto the computer. The official book may still be two or three months away, but the beta version of "Bad Apps" is now ready for release! Or, at least ready for release to those who have volunteered to beta read and give me the...

It's the first Wednesday of the month and so it’s time for another Insecure Writer’s Support Group (IWSG) blog hop! In an IWSG post, we writers bring our writing challenges and problems out into the open to share with each other and try to offer solutions. October was a very busy month for me! I had been formatting my book of short fiction, "Bad Apps", for beta reading most of the month (or so it seemed) and still am. I also had the Halloween edition of the newsletter that I was putting together and released just before October 31. If you're not subscribed to my free author's newsletter, you can subscribe here . On top of that, I was busy putting together a Halloween discount sale for my books which I've actually extended to the end of the week! (More about that below.) Plus, there were seasonal events that I attended. I was trying so hard to get more done than 31 days allows for that there were times when I thought I was on the edge of madness! But I survive...