I Saw Two Birds

When I was doing yoga this morning I saw two birds--a Chickadee and a Mourning Dove--but I wasn't in a position to take their pictures, not that they held still long enough for that to happen even if I hadn't been holding a Boat Pose or a Chair Pose. I was just glad to see them.

I'm on a lucky streak. Last week I entered a Writers Helping Writers blog contest and won a critique of the first three pages of my next novel. I sent my pages in immediately and got her comments back today. They're very complimentary and not too critical of my writing, kind of surprising for a first draft. 

 

About ten days ago, I applied to Chirp (the audiobook arm of BookBub) for a Freebie Friday promotion. I got word today that I'm accepted. That means that from Friday to Monday The Seaview will be offered for free and the other two books in the series will be deeply discounted. They say that there's the potential for thousands of free downloads and hundreds to thousands of paid downloads. It's not free to me, but if I get a few hundred downloads of the discounted audiobooks it'll be worth it. I'm willing to pay the fee to get my name out there in front of thousands of readers/listeners.

 

After yog-ing, I came back here and sat down to make Amazon Ads for Anneke's Legacy. I made 14 of them--two Auto ads (where the Amazon algorithm chooses where to display my ads, one for each format, eBook and paperback), six Category ads (I chose three of the categories that pertain to my story and made an ad for each category and each format), and six Keyword ads (where I found three different book titles that seem similar to my book, used a data scraper to collect book titles and author names from their sales pages, and made ads using that data for each format). It was a tedious process and I was soooooo glad that I had printed off and kept a file of the instructions for making ads from the last time I did Bryan Cohen's Amazon Ads Profit Challenge. Those little sheets of paper were a godsend.

 

Today's flower drawing didn't turn out as well as the last few have. It's a Calla Lily, well, two of them, and I think they're a little misshapen. I like the coloring on the leaves, though.

 

When I got home from Writers Guild tonight, I sat down and registered for the last two vendor fairs on our list. I'd have done it on Sunday when I did the first one of my share of the list, but the last two wouldn't open yet. So I got it done and will send off the checks tomorrow. Yes, we're going to be hauling tables, chairs, and books around the area again come fall. We're even going up to Marinette (50 miles north on Hwy. 41) for one show. I think we'll pile all our stuff in GBB's SUV and only take one vehicle. She says we can cram it all in there.

Sorry I don't have more engaging photos to share with you tonight but nothing I did today was very photogenic. It was sunny again today, so that's a good thing. And it didn't snow.

--Barbara