If someone pointed a gun to my head and demanded I choose between giving up coffee or my obsession with red notebooks, I’d take the bullet. When you have a family, budgeting money is necessary. At the end of last month there was enough money for either two items.
It’s either two pounds of coffee or the red Zequenz Classic 360 Signature Series A6 Notepad 128 sheets/256 pages. So I waited until the next month to choose both, the right answer. I’ll give you more details when I finished my other notebooks.
In the meantime, I have three cold brew makers I need refilling.
Here it is! In my hands, the proof copy for The Package Trilogy. Looks and smells good. Going to read through it to make sure it looks good. I should make it public this Friday.
Last week I ordered my proof copy of The Package Trilogy from Lulu.com. I’m still waiting. As of this writing, it’s in North Las Vegas. I wished I chose a more expedient mailing service but I would have to pay way more. The waiting is killing me. I want to make sure the book looks good before making it public.
My designer said he’s almost done with two cover variations for me. I can’t wait to see them. So through the weekend and next week I’ll focus on getting the paperback done. If I don’t post anything for next Tuesday and Thursday this is the reason. If things go well you’ll see the paperback out by the end of this month.
My acquaintance Alan (@legendofalan) at Substack posted a writing exercise.
Bleeding feet
Burning eyes
Broken shackles
Consider the exercise if you want. Here is what I wrote.
The pencil sits on the table. Yearning to be used. So is the piece of paper next to it. Your thoughts want to burst out but is restrained by not others, but your own worries, blocks, and the automatic response of self-censoring.
But you pick up the pencil anyways. You move your hand closer to the paper. Broken shackles the second the two writing tools touch. That first line scratching, then another, and another. Finally, those lines form a coherent message.
It’s my older son’s last day of summer school and it’s a month of summer break until he starts again sometime in August. I’m glad he’s going to enjoy it. But I know it’s extra work for me.
The fun part is we’ll be going to a few places for all of us to enjoy and spending some quality family time. The drawback is that I won’t be able to write as much. But as a field writer I’ll adapt to my situation.
So if I’m not posting as much for July and August I apologize in advanced. Thank you for your patience and your support.
Now that I’m done with all three ebooks of The Package all I need to do is work on the paperback. So far, it’s on hold because my book cover designer is currently making mine. Sketch design, blurb, and all the necessary stuff are given to him.
Projected completion date of the book cover is around two weeks minimum, a month maximum. So I have plenty of time to work on other projects like this blog, newsletter, and drafting an upcoming nonfiction ebook. Will give you more details later.
I’m making some final changes, a read through, and then export them in EPUB and PDF. Also have to create a product page for it on Gumroad. Once I publish it I will celebrate. I can’t believe I accomplished so much in so little time.
