Zoomy

I had two writing Zooms today. The first one was a Q&A for beginners about a website where I might be able to sell my audiobooks in addition to Audible, Amazon, and iTunes (if I pay for another plan) and my ebooks but I have to figure out how to not have exclusive distribution with Amazon. I'm not sure I'm smart enough or clever enough but I'll keep poking at it until I either break something or figure it out.

In between Zooms I noticed this squirrel up on the suet cakes feeder and for once it was facing me instead of showing me its tail. Naturally it was in the sunny part of the day when the feeder was in shadow so the squirrel is hard to see but, trust me, the head is facing my way.

 

I emailed the latest (and maybe final) draft of the third book of The Seaview Series to my Kindle. I'll get out a little notepad and get started reading and making notes of typos and what needs changing. I'm so glad I figured out that reading it on Kindle looks like a book so it gives me a leg up with editing. At least that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

Taking a break from staring at the computer screen, I drew this. It's on the cover of Seuss-isms and is part of The Cat in the Hat. Everybody recognizes it, I'm sure.

 

The second Zoom was an Ads Analysis session with an Ad School Coach. We sent links ahead of time so the coach could do a little pre-session poking around. I confess that I didn't always understand everything she said but I will get a recording in a few days so I can listen again (and again) and maybe figure out what she was telling me to do. One thing I did understand was she didn't like that I used Travel as one of my keywords for The Seaview because Travel is a nonfiction category which will mislead people looking for travel books and they'll be turned off. I guess that makes sense but I felt so smart when I found that.

After supper while I watched the next episode of White Collar on Netflix I knitted on the hat. It isn't that much longer than before but you can see the new colors better. I'm at the crown decreases so it'll go fast from here. Only 8 more rounds to go!

My writing friend and last fall's roomie at The Clearing, MH, told us about White Collar last week and said it was good and funny. It's about a forger who gets sprung from prison by an FBI agent needing help with an art theft. Te forger wears an ankle bracelet but they solve white collar crimes in New York City. I've only watched 4 episodes but I like it a lot and there's 3 seasons. Or maybe 4. Anyway, it's good escapist TV.

--Barbara