May and Other Oddities

 Hello.

How are we all doing this fine, almost summer but not quite summer but really is summer where I am, month?

Good, good, happy to hear that things are going as well as can be expected considering... waves vaguely at everything.

Lots of nothing going on here right now. Youngest kid just finished up their first year of college and is now recovering. Second oldest still living at home, is working on building their Twitch (I don't know what twitch is but they seem to put a lot of work into for nothing) hoping for monetization but that mile marker keeps moving on them. 

The grandson is growing. He's walking now. Talking a little. Loves Miss Rachel. I was happy not knowing who Miss Rachel was. But he's a sweetie. I have to baby proof my office now. It's dog proof but not baby proof. Dogs don't have hands and can't reach table tops.

What else is going on? Not much. No book sales to speak of. Of course, I no longer try to get the word out. There's only so much you can share before you feel like you're just spamming and have been put on ignore, if you know what I mean. 

Honestly, I don't have much of a social media presence at all lately. I no longer have Twitter and Instagram for reasons that have been hashed and rehashed. I still have FB. I will keep FB despite the... waves vaguely at things again. I have Bluesky, but like with Twitter, I don't like constantly sharing stuff and not knowing if I'm being seen or just annoying people. 

I know, you have to share it so people know it's there. But FB blocks all that, and Bluesky just feels like thousands of people flinging shit into the wind, at least to me. I did try in the beginning. I shared other people's stuff when I saw it. I interacted. Then I muted the sites with nothing but political postings. I do not want to be constantly bombarded with political rantings from any side of the shit show we are living in.

So, meh, it's done. I have moments of delusion that I want to write again, but I have 33 published works out there already that may as well just disappear. What little I am making right now does seem to be coming from Kobo Plus. March reads there came out to 136 bucks. I made less than a hundred on Amazon, and less than fifty combined on Apple, B&N, and D2D. I don't even bother keeping up with sales anymore. Beyond Complicated still sells regularly, the rest, not so much. No, I can't write anything like that again. By can't I mean won't. 

But sometimes I have ideas. Then they slip away. 

Right now, I'm focused on Ebay and resale. I'm trying to clean out my house to pay the bills. I had to choose between resale, crafts, and writing, and lord knows I hate going back to resale, but, can't pay the bills with crafts or writing anymore, so that's where I'm at. I chose. I didn't want to make the choice, but here we are.

I had considered a Kick*Start*Er campaign (done that way so as not to attract the spam bots) to fund the entire Scrimmage series print covers. I've always wanted to get the whole series out in matching covers. I was almost there twice but the cover artists just... waves vaguely again. I love the covers I have now, those are absolutely gorgeous and they all match but I would like to do new discreet covers that mimic those covers. Like maybe just a football as the main focus and keep the font and colors of the current covers. Something like that. I figured that would run around two thousand for all seven books.

But, if I can't reach anyone to buy my actual e-books then how am I going to reach people to fund a KSer? And then, the interest I've had with previous attempts at print has been very limited... sooo.

SIGHS

ANYWAYS!

Yeah, I'm a defeatist. I am defeated. Yet still I harp on it instead of taking action.

I think I'm going to write cozy paranormal mid-life women's murder fiction... but... I don't know how.

So here we are.

All of my books can be found in the sidebar >>>> 

Click the cover to find the buy links. If you really want to help me out, click the payhip link. You get a discount. I get the money immediately. Or you can find my linktree on the about me page located in the menu. I have my ko-fi and other funding sources listed there. I need two thousand to fund the covers, and two thousand a month to pay bills and buy food. It is what it is.

Happy May, 

Peace,

Mercy