Okay, so, not much to talk about today. Update on the weekend I guess. We went to the Anime thing across the bay in Daphne. It’s not quite an hour drive if traffic is good. I really like that area of Alabama. I wish we’d bought a house over there when we were looking. I really do. But that’s beside the point.
I dropped them… what do you call your adult children?… I mean Aubrey isn’t 18 just yet but they will be in June and your next kid up, with autism and severe social issues who doesn’t drive will be 29 the week after… so what do you call them… I dropped the kids off… They’re not actually kids anymore. I mean they’re my kids. They’re my babies. They’ll always be my kids and babies. But what term better fits when referring to your adult children as a whole…. anyway, I dropped them off at 11:25 and went on my merry way to find something to do. I was about halfway into the building at the first thrift store I’d planned to hit when I got the text that they were done and ready to go… y’all, it wasn’t even an hour. Last year they stayed close to four hours. Last year, and the year before the civic center parking lot was packed and the closed bank and grocery store across the street were also full of overflow parking. This year those lots were empty.
I guess that’s saying something about the state of that convention at least. The tickets were only twenty bucks. It’s just a one day event. But they said there wasn’t much going on. Only a few voice actors and special guests were there. Not many vendors. They walked around. Spent their money. And got bored.
Eh… I guess it is what it is. Good thing I didn’t go to see The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare like I wanted.
And I do want. I haven’t been to the theater for a movie since November 2019. I saw Knives Out by myself. I really want to see this movie in theaters. I fear it will leave theaters before I get a chance.
Anyway, hmm, what else… it was 89 degrees last Saturday with heavy humidity. Sunday it was 59 degrees. I don’t know what Mother Nature is smoking, but she needs to go to rehab. Okay seriously, I’m not ready for summer temps in late April. But it’s not unusual to be in the upper 80s in late April. May is usually a summer month here. It’s rare that it’s cool after this time of year. And honestly, I don’t mind the 72 degrees that it is today. But I do not appreciate 30 degree temperature drops over night. We’d already put the winter stuff away. Sunday was cold and wet with a frigid wet wind, which made it feel even colder.
No likey. Noooo LIKEY at all.
In other news…
Uh… well… uh… just the heads up that the final ten books will leave Kindle Unlimited tomorrow night. The entire Scrimmage and Adventure INK serieses… series’… seriously, how do you pluralize the word series? that drives me crazy…. will fall out after midnight Pacific time some time, when they get around to it, and will be relisted on Kobo and Apple, and will be free to read in Kobo Plus… and I’m thinking about listing everything with D2D again to see where I can put them. I mean, there’s Barnes and Noble but last year it took ten months to get paid for sales in 2022. They have a 2o buck pay threshold and won’t pay until it’s crossed. Ten months from November 2022 to September 2023 to earn 20 bucks to get paid in October. I see no reason to bother with them anymore. Of course I haven’t even made 150 bucks on Amazon yet this month, and nothing on Kobo and Apple so there is that. I’ve made nearly a hundred in Payhip for the twincest book. So I guess that’s the only book that still gets word of mouth. Because seriously, how is it found? I don’t advertise it in anyway. I try not to think about it. But… that’s the state of my affairs in the book selling world.
Incidentally, I finally broke down and watched several tutorials on Amazon’s Ads and how to set one up. Because I never did understand how to use that. The only thing I didn’t learn was when they take payment for those ads. I set it up for One True Pair. I followed the prompts for click ads and set the limit at 12 dollars a day with the ad fee per click capped at 75 cents… I googled when Amazon takes payment for the ad clicks. I found one source that said they take payment the first week of each month and decided, okay, I can budget for that. At most it’s going to be around a hundred sixty bucks or so and I get paid on the 29th… and hit launch ad… yeah, I got charged for all the clicks the next day. They came right out of my account without a word of warning. And I still haven’t made one single sale. I took that ad down lickety split. It was less than five dollars, but still. I can’t have money come out daily for any possible sales that I will not receive until June 29th. No, no. There should be something somewhere on Amazon that has that in big, blazing letters. YOU WILL BE CHARGED DAILY FOR ALL CLICKS AND WE WILL DEBIT THE FEES IMMEDIATELY FROM YOUR FUNDING SOURCE!!!!!!
SIGHS!!!!!
I really liked One True Pair. I wish more people had read it. I wish more people had read my last five or six books. I wish I knew how to get word of mouth going again because I sure as hell can’t afford to pay for advertising… but anyway… I’m resigned to the end of this now.
Speaking of endings. This website will close on May 11th. I don’t have four hundred dollars to renew it. I’ve looked at my old blogger blog and honestly, I really don’t care to return to it.
So, if you’re still here, you’ll be the only one who knows that I will post the final chapters of the final Side and Sunday books… those have been written for a long time. And I’ll outline what my plans were for the final Cold book. And then I’m gone.
That’s my thousand words for today.
Hope you are having a great week so far.
Peace,
Mercy
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