I set out to blog more this year. Life happens and I get sidetracked. Or I get locked out. Mostly, I just don’t have much to blog about. I end up whinging into the ether so I figure it’s better to just stay quiet.
But, meh, I’m sitting here avoiding taxes so why not come on here and fret about shit to get it out of my mind so I can function.
I bought a lot of stuff from Amazon last month. I might do a review post in the next few days. Be ready for that. Unfortunately, I hate shopping on Amazon, but local stores just do not carry the things I need to buy and I get so tired of trying to find individual websites for said items when it’s all right there in one place. Plus all kinds of other shit I didn’t know I needed. I give up. I just go to Amazon and hit add to cart. I found compression socks that actually fit my big feet without rolling down or sliding off. And they are cut for right and left fit, with no seam on the toes. I hate the seam on the toes. I hate socks because of the seam on the toes. These are nice. I looked through every store in WeMo for black work pants for my husband. I finally just gave up and got them from the Zon. Books that aren’t available in the one bookstore in Mobile. Nor in the one across the bay. Yes we went over looking for a book on Wednesday. Kitchen stuff. A new rolling stool with inline rollerblade wheels. Because… reasons.
Yeah, now, if only I could buy certain food items there and get them in a timely manner. I get so tired of hunting for the products I use that just aren’t available here…. sighs.
Speaking of Amazon… I did not appreciate my last week of Prime Video having ads. I was not expecting Mrs Maisel to stop in the exact middle of a scene to show an ad. That show isn’t made to have commercial breaks. You just flat out punched into the middle of a tense argument to show me an ad for some other show on Prime Video and didn’t cut back in at the place where you cut out… not cool… very not cool. No I’m not paying 3 bucks more to watch the only two shows I like on there over and over. Especially not when most of the things I order through Prime take as long as the non-Prime free shipping items take… or longer. What the hell am I paying Prime for if I still get ads, and the two day shipping is more like two week shipping anyway?
Also speaking of Amazon… I just checked the January Kindle Invoice. Seems the Kindle Unlimited per page read rate dropped to $0.0040. It was $0.0043 for December. That’s a loss of about $18 bucks for the tiny amount of page reads I got if January had paid the same as December. So… what the hell do I do? Right now I’m all in. There aren’t enough actual sales to offset the loss. Most of my books never get even one page read much less a straight purchase. December was halfway decent so I thought I’d go all in because there are no sales on the other sites and Kobo Plus doesn’t seem to be working in the US market. I’ve yet to have any reads there or the UK. So????
Now, 13 titles will fall out of KU on October 27, so there is that. Just 10 days left to ride out. The rest are stuck in until April. Because I was stupid. BIG SIGHS! S.I.G.H.S!!!!!!!!!!!!! I suppose I could ask to have them all removed early. But no sales are still no sales.
I don’t know… does it even matter? I’m not spending money to promote ten year old books. When the stand alones fall out on the 27th do I bother putting them back on Kobo and Apple? How do I get people to buy directly through my store link?
And another thing I’m considering… removing the last 4 Scrimmage books entirely. pretending they never existed.
Anyway… rambling thoughts on a bitterly cold Saturday in February.
Peace,
Mercy
