Two In One Day!

Every morning when I boot up my laptop one of the things I check is the report of sales on the Kindle Direct Publishing website. This morning it said I'd sold 2 books so far this month, both Kindle ebooks. Just now I checked again and sometime today I sold 2 more books, paperbacks this time. Hooray! I spent a lot of the afternoon watching Ad Challenge and Genre Guild videos to try to learn how to figure out how my ads are doing. I had to figure out ad spend vs. royalties and over the lifetime of my ads I'm doing very well, slow but well. In the Genre Guild video I learned that I needed to remove "romance" from my keywords on all of my books because they're not Romance novels, they just have a little romance in them. Big difference.

This morning I waited patiently with the camera up and ready for a Chickadee to visit the platform feeder. There were two of them taking turns but they're so quick to fly in and out that if I hadn't had the camera ready I'd never have gotten this shot. It's not a portrait but at least you can see the bird.

For my drawing today I pulled out Dr. Seuss's Book of Animals, was flipping the pages, and saw these bees. I like bees. I like drawing bees. My initial is B. So I drew them.

I got a delivery this afternoon. The new book stands I ordered from Amazon came. I pulled out five from the 24 in the package and I think they'll work just fine. Does that mean I have to write 19 more books to use them all? Nah. I also got a 10-pack of WW chewy bars but I didn't take their picture.

I didn't take a walk today. My foot still hurts. I don't know what I did to it but I sure wish it would feel better soon. It makes me feel old. I went to the grocery and tried to stride around there instead of strolling. Maybe that counts.

--Barbara