So, the promotion is done.\u00a0 And the results are very encouraging.\u00a0 There\u2019s been an uptick in all three types of orders; paperbacks, e-books and Kindle Unlimited pages.\u00a0 In fact, today I\u2019ve 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.\u00a0 Bravo!<\/p>\n
But now the real work begins.\u00a0 I\u2019ve got to go forward with outlining and writing the next book.\u00a0 And to do that correctly I have to (as my father used to say) \u201cbuckle down.\u201d\u00a0 I need to devote several hours every day to writing.\u00a0 And those have to be early in the morning when my mind isn\u2019t yet reduced to the soupy mush it will become by later in the day.\u00a0 And so that means something\u2019s gotta give.\u00a0 And that something will have to be my daily posts.<\/p>\n
Some days I\u2019ll be a ball of fire.\u00a0 I\u2019ll 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.\u00a0 But not always.\u00a0 Some days I\u2019ll put a song up instead.\u00a0 Or maybe nothing at all.\u00a0 I\u2019ll try to keep up with the photos and quotes.\u00a0 That shouldn\u2019t overwhelm me.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 I\u2019m putting this out there to let everybody know how it is.<\/p>\n
For most of you this won\u2019t be a great hardship.\u00a0 My mental powers have greatly diminished over the decade and more that I\u2019ve been producing this blog and it may actually be a relief to know the ordeal is over.\u00a0 But for me it\u2019s kind of sad.\u00a0 I\u2019ve tried to be as reliable as I could be to the task.\u00a0 But at the same time, I\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n
So, there you go.\u00a0 I\u2019m announcing the official \u201cShirking of OCF.\u201d\u00a0 I am AWOL and no power in the \u2018verse can stop me.\u00a0 I will understand if everyone deletes the web address and heads for greener pastures but I just want to add it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n
Hasta la vista baby!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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