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20 November, 2025

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Like a Rolling Stone

Blelo evwebody,

I bet you’re wondering how that author event went, right?

…..

It was awesome!

Well, to be honest, I was super nervous and really freaked out all day. We set up at 9 a.m. at the library, the event started at 11 a.m., and we left around 3:30 p.m. But I channeled my mom’s outgoing energy and used my best people skills. M said I did awesome. I even sold 20 books and gave away some bookmarks and business cards! And my free funky pen giveaway was a big hit! People really liked them. When someone would walk by my table, I’d ask if they wanted a free pen and then I’d ask if they wanted a book! ^_^

This is me all set up and ready to go!

Now I am ready to get to work on my next books!

I also want to try to find some other author events to sign up for. I hope the next ones will be easier. I’m sure they’ll still be scary but hopefully I won’t be as freaked out.

Side-note: Our youngest cat, who’s still in kittenhood, decided it’d be cool to turn on our kitchen faucet and flood our kitchen. It went into our basement. Flooded everything. We already had the sheetrock in the basement stairwell replaced. We might have to tear up the kitchen tile. There are industrial fans and dehumidifiers everywhere. Ugh. Impudent little fluff. -_-*

Anyhoo, I hope I can start writing something this fall/winter. I’d really like to. Crappy things just keep happening to us. It’s stressing us out. Sigh.

Well, keep on trucking, kids.

J

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24 October, 2025

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It’s Electric, Boogie Woogie

Blelo, evwebody!

It has been a busy summer into fall.

A cool thing that happened was that my science fiction crime drama, Code of Murder, won a 2025 International Impact Book Award and got the finalist medal in the Science Fiction-Suspense Category of the Global Book Awards. That was really cool. :o)

I am still trying to get my books/me out there. It is very hard. I only have 7 ratings on Code of Murder on Amazon. Marketing is very hard when you don’t have a marketing department behind you or your own publicist. But how are indie authors supposed to afford that? And then the emails you get from individual people claiming to promise to put you and your books in front of people are very sketchy and you know you’d end up paying them hundreds of dollars.

Anyway, I have a cool new website and everything. And I got a Goodreads author account, too.

So I have put myself out there in lots of places.

In a couple weekends I am doing something scary. I am going to be at my first-ever in-person author event. O_O It’s at a local library. They’re having lots of local authors come and sell their books and meet the community. I’ll have a table where I’ll be signing and selling my books, and giving away bookmarks, business cards, and some funky pens I found. :o) It is a great opportunity to get my face out there! But I am very scared and nervous. I hope I don’t chicken out. :o( M is being very supportive. He is going to come with me and help me stay strong….. I just hope I can do it!

Attempting to start some more stories, too. I hope fall will be a good writing time.

Next week is Halloween. My second favorite holiday! I’m so excited! I love October. My second favorite month (also my birth month). ^_^

Happy writing, happy reading, and happy All Hallows Eve!

-J