So, the promotion is done. And the results are very encouraging. There’s been an uptick in all three types of orders; paperbacks, e-books and Kindle Unlimited pages. In fact, today I’ve had all three types of sales and another two five-star ratings showed up so a very good way to end the promotion and the Based Book Sale. Bravo!
But now the real work begins. I’ve got to go forward with outlining and writing the next book. And to do that correctly I have to (as my father used to say) “buckle down.” I need to devote several hours every day to writing. And those have to be early in the morning when my mind isn’t yet reduced to the soupy mush it will become by later in the day. And so that means something’s gotta give. And that something will have to be my daily posts.
Some days I’ll be a ball of fire. I’ll bang out page after page of deathless prose, take care of the chores at the Compound, grovel and genuflect to First Selectman Cthulhu and still manage to write a post. But not always. Some days I’ll put a song up instead. Or maybe nothing at all. I’ll try to keep up with the photos and quotes. That shouldn’t overwhelm me. But trying to produce five hundred coherent words on a topic that might interest the folks on the site is going to be beyond my powers of concentration for the foreseeable future. I’m putting this out there to let everybody know how it is.
For most of you this won’t be a great hardship. My mental powers have greatly diminished over the decade and more that I’ve been producing this blog and it may actually be a relief to know the ordeal is over. But for me it’s kind of sad. I’ve tried to be as reliable as I could be to the task. But at the same time, I’ve got a strong desire to make this next book something special so I need to concentrate on quality and I need to finish it sooner than later because the longer I wait the fewer people who read the first book will be anxious to buy the sequel.
So, there you go. I’m announcing the official “Shirking of OCF.” I am AWOL and no power in the ‘verse can stop me. I will understand if everyone deletes the web address and heads for greener pastures but I just want to add it’s been great talking to all you folks over the years and feel free to stop by whenever you feel like just in case I manage to produce readable text on that particular day.
Hasta la vista baby!