Forty-eight Degrees!

That's how warm it got today. 48 degrees is nearly unheard of in Green Bay, WI in February. Not to mention it's Friday the 13th. No black cats in view today. But there was a Sparrow or two at the feeder today. Not a flock but a couple of them. Also lots of snow melting happened today. I have no illusions about the temperature staying this moderate through the rest of the winter. We're bound to get another polar vortex screaming through to freeze us to the marrow.

 

The flower of today's drawing was Poppy. It was pretty simple to draw and I kind of wish I'd colored it darker but this is the way the picture was so I followed directions. I'm a good girl like that. Maybe I'll go back to darken it up.

 

 

At Friday Night Knitting I got to work on the crown decreases of the Melt the
ICE Hat. I'm about halfway to being done, I think. I like it because every other round decreases by four stitches so they get smaller and faster as I go. Pretty satisfying.

 

This morning I unpublished and republished the Open For Business paperback. I didn't have to unpublish and republish the eBook because I could just add the ISBN to the current edition but I decided to upload the re-edited manuscript and I'm so glad I did because it found three typos in one of the recipes I entered yesterday. And I thought I'd gone through them all and caught all the booboos. Nope. Now all of my books are updated with my own personal ISBNs. I found out something interesting on Amazon the other day after posting a question on Kindle Direct Publishing's Community site. It turns out that you can choose Extended Distribution on Amazon which will make your books available to bookstores and libraries without having to sign up with another distributor. That means I don't have to reformat all 8 of my titles to upload onto a different site. So I clicked on each title and checked that box. I'll do more research but I think this is a step in the right direction. Sometimes all the thinking makes me tired. One of these days I'm not going to do any writing work and have a day off. If I can manage it.

Oh, I got a phone call this afternoon from MW, a knitting pal who is a big fan of my books. When I said hello he asked, "Is the new book here?" "Yes," I said. He said, "I'm on my way." And he was here in about 15 minutes to buy a copy of Anneke's Legacy, the first one I've sold. Yay!

--Barbara