What is with these blink and miss them months lately?
I know I'm getting old and my mother always said that time moves faster as you get older. But where the hell has November gone? And this time I'm not going to say it feels like it was five minutes and five years. No, this has been a five minute month all around.
Like yesterday we were standing in line to vote and now we're a week from T-day.
Speaking of Thanksgiving... my least favorite of all the days of the year. I hate that day with a fucking passion. It's the I cook food I hate all day holiday for people who also hate that food, but must have "traditional" thanksgiving food.
Okay, not my personal family. No one in my house likes turkey that much. Nor want to do some kind of formal dining event. But that's how it was when my birth family was still in my life. After my parents divorced and I got married it became my job to cook for my father and siblings. While they sat in my living room, didn't talk to me, or my kids, just to themselves, and when it was done and the criticism was out of the way, they'd mosey on back to Florida. And going back to when my mother, who was a terrible cook btw, did it, and I was the only kid she forced into helping... okay I can forgive my mother for Thanksgiving, that wasn't a her thing, that was asshole family members making demands without offering to help thing. She did try. We did a ton of food from scratch. Because we were country people and we had farm vegetables and well, it's how it was back then.
As the years went by and the crap piled high I stopped doing all scratch holiday meals. Turkey yes, mashed potatoes yes, the rest of it, nope. It either came pre-made from the store, or from a box, can or exploding tube of dough. And that's how it still is, if we do it all, minus the damn turkey, I won't ever cook another turkey as long as I live. I hate them. The smell of the carcass starting to roast makes me gag. I will bake some chicken pieces, and I might cook frozen field peas instead of canned green beans but that's as close to from scratch as I'm doing now. I don't have any extended family now. My husband's family, what's left of it, all live hours and hours away. So it's just us. And this year, if I could find a place open, I'd just order some pizza and bake some pies and call it done.
Sighs. I think I've said that all ready. And I woke up wanting pizza today.
Anyway, this was supposed to be a post about the 12 books about to drop out of KU and possibly leave Amazon forever. I say possibly. I'm still on the fence about that, but the second leg is swinging over. I think I will hold off pulling them completely until the 30th. I still don't know. I don't want to continue to support a billionaire, but I've been informed that billionaire no longer has controlling interest in the company... but still... I still believe my sales have not been reported correctly, for many years, and well, it would be like cutting my nose off to spite my face........ My gut says do it. But I'm second thinking.
Doesn't matter, I'm about to default on my mortgage and I'm out of chances to pull out of foreclosure. Whatever I do this weekend will be too late so yeah. Either way, everything will go back into wide release, I already have 5 titles back on Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo and in Kobo plus. But the links aren't showing in search on B&N and Kobo even though they say they're published and even sent me an email, but I can't find them.
So anyway, if you still haven't read the following books in KU you have until Friday night late to get them in your library.
And with that, if I don't get back before the holiday, I wish you catering and house keeping.
Mercy
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