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Darkness

15 Tuesday Jul 2014

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The cover of my novel "Darkness" not my best work

The cover of my novel “Darkness” not my best work

Since my last post, much has happened. Mostly devastation and sadness. Mostly concerning my mom. On Thursday July 3, she was transferred from our local hospital, to one two hours away. On Saturday, she ended up needing emergency surgery to remove the offending problem. I won’t go into to much detail, but she is now currently on the ventilator in the Surgical ICU. Two hours away. Its a very sad, very distressing situation, and it doesn’t help in the least that I’m pregnant.

I have frequently wondered if my “horror-moans” are more out of whack than those of other pregnant women. I’ve cried so much in the last ten days that I’m surprised I’m not dehydrated.

Anyway, in  light of these events, I decided one evening, coming home from work, that I would say “Screw it” and throw together the files and such necessary to complete the self-publishing process on “Darkness”. I was up until about 4am this morning–or yesterday, whatever–working on cover related things, fixing interior file errors, and uploading documents. I am content to say that the process for both Paperback and Kindle Book formats are complete, and I am simply awaiting confirmation that they have both gone live.

If you happen to have a CreateSpace account, you can already purchase a paperback copy of the book for $8.99. You may be able to find it with this LINK.

Please forgive any errors and typos and hideous covers. I’m not the best proofreader (I also got to lazy to do it all over again) and I’m not a skilled graphic artist. If you decide to purchase it, I hope you at least enjoy the story.

 

-c

“Come back! We miss you!” Said No one. Ever.

09 Monday Jun 2014

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I keep meaning to make my triumphant blogging return, but sadly, I just… Don’t.

I’m going to do what has become a thing for me, now. I’ll blame it on pregnancy. You see, I am constantly tired. Sometimes I wake up tired. And then I go to work all day, and MORE TIRED.

Coming home and blogging is not something that sounds thrilling to me, so, I indirectly blame pregnancy!

But what would I blog about anywho? I’ve not worked on “Darkness” I’m weeks, so no news there. Although I have uploaded a trial copy to CreateSpace, and OH MY WORD no errors!

I still plan on one more run through, and I need to add the “about the author” at the end. Probably going to skip any table of contents, if it doesn’t throw off the ever so complicated layout.

The cover is still the most frustrating part. But I do have a friend who I’m thinking of asking to draw or sketch an image for the cover. Maybe. Or maybe I’ll try it. We shall see.

Also, I was watching my 12 yr old nephew play some video games this weekend and (sadly) I came up with two “inklings”. “Inklings” are what I call teeny tiny blips of ideas.

I say “sadly” because I promised myself that nothing else gets written until “Darkness” has been published! But I do plan on jotting them down. Perhaps I’ll make them into blog stories!

-c