Do you ever feel like you’re reaching for success and someone is slapping your hand? Does every Monday feel like Thwart Day?
I just had one of those days that drains energy. I read a review from a guy who apparently thinks I believe in the supernatural because I often write about it. (Fiction, people! Fiction!) A cop stopped me today. He was unnecessarily dickish. That put me in a dark mood. I haven’t been feeling great so I had to go for some medical tests. A nurse was in a panic over my paperwork and apparently trying to panic me, too. I’ve got a big birthday coming up which I’m not excited about. I feel pressure. Sometimes, despite my big plans, it seems time is running out and the news for indie authors seems to be all whoa and woe at the moment.
Therefore, it’s not time to give up.
It’s time to put the hammer down (because I was thinking of doing terrible things with that hammer) and remember what’s working. To review:
I got this letter today:
“This Plague of Days, Omnibus Edition was awarded an Honorable Mention for Writer’s Digest’s Self-Published e-Book Awards in Genre.”
Whoo. Also? Hoo!
Check out the Top 100 Kindle Short from my coauthor Holly Pop
I’m collaborating with several authors and a publisher in 2015. The first was Holly (Pop) Papandreas, author of Ouija.
We wrote The Haunting Lessons. In this fun and dark fantasy, a girl from Iowa discovers she has amazing capabilities. The world is a richer and more dangerous place than she ever imagined. Parts of it may remind you of This Plague of Days, but the tone is lighter and the pace is lightning quick. Don’t miss out on 81 lessons to survive Armageddon. I like you and I want you to live.
Just released for Christmas reading!
My friend and author of Butterfly Stitching, Sher Kruse, has invited me to participate in a non-fiction anthology.
More on that in 2015.
I’ll be contributing to a horror anthology for a publisher and working with another author friend of mine on a secret book project to take paranormal readers by storm. I also have big plans for several books in the Ghosts and Demons Series, a big standalone book and more Hit Man books.
It’s been a big building year for me. I put together six books in 2014, so Mom and Dad will have to take back those accusations that I’m too lazy to live.
It’s so fun and gritty and fast, I’m very happy with Hollywood Jesus, the third adventure in the Hit Man Series. The John Leguizamo joke alone makes it for me!
“Perhaps the most underrated crime novel of all time.” ~ Robert Chazz Chute
And, maybe best of all, I wrote my criminal autobiography!
That’s one adorable bear holding that bloody knife.
And I’m part of the Horror Within Box Set with some very heavy hitters in horror fiction.
In other words, it’s been a productive year. It seems I have a lot to live for, after all. I can’t wait to get more of my ebooks into print, too. So stay busy. It will keep you out of trouble. Works for me. When you’re feeling down, write another book. That’s what I do. I’m all nerves a lot of the time, obviously. Writing soothes me and keep me from acting on impulses to hammer things.
Writing works that way for many people. Writing or reading, I hope you find escape, as I do, in imagination.
Merry Christmas.
If you had mixed feelings about 2014, let’s make 2015 better, hm?
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