Good news! I have successfully configured my DNS settings. (Technically Jeremy configured my DNS settings, but when you’re married, you sort of share victories like that.)

The wheels of progress have been turning swiftly here. I got my proof copy of The Fiercest Chicken in the Bookstore over the weekend, so I’m going to be reviewing it and making sure nothing looks wonky and that there aren’t any last-minute errors. Hopefully not, but you never really know.

I still need to redesign the website here to promote Fiercest Chicken as well as offer a free copy of Somewhat Before. I never really saw myself as a website designer or a marketer or anything like that. I just wanted to write. And here I am!

Oh well. At least I don’t have to make phone calls. Anything but that.

Actually, as it happens, I’ve already taken one phone call this morning. (#brave)

Somewhat Before is ready to go through my intensive editing process. I just have a few more changes to make and then I’ll be sending it out to all my people. I’m very lucky to have so many people willing to help me out with editing and beta-reading.

Somewhat Unreal, book two in the Bookland series, continues to progress. I’m nearly at 15,000 words, which, you know, maybe isn’t a lot, but it’s going to end up around roughly 80,000, just like Somewhat Alive, so I’m approaching the end of the first twenty-five percent.

Lately, when I write, I don’t really have a chapter-by-chapter outline or anything. I just sort of know the general plot and I have places I want to be at certain percentages of the book. I suspect that, much like cleaning the house, it doesn’t matter that much how you do it, as long as you do it.

I probably should clean up the house today. Right after I decide how.

As of tomorrow, it’ll officially be three months since Somewhat Alive came out. It was received better than I expected. I honestly wouldn’t have been that surprised if it had just sort of floated out onto Amazon and been largely completely ignored, but it hit number one on the bestseller lists in all three of its categories.

Of course, now, I’m cautiously hopeful that when I release Fiercest Chicken later this month, it will do equally well or better. In some ways, it’s a much easier genre, since it’s simpler to understand and more common. But more common also could mean more competition. We shall see.

Also, seeing as how it is Monday, I’m probably going to drink extra coffee this afternoon. I suggest all of you do the same. It can’t hurt. Probably.

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