Creating January 26, 2015

     JANUARY 26, 2015 –Novella Cover Work! 
With things moving along once again, I can start concentrating on web pictures to promote the first set of Novelettes. This was supposed to be done a week ago. Unfortunately, the best laid plans sometime get it butt spanked and not in a good way or I’m the one doing the spanking. Let me know what you think if you would. Good, Bad, or WTF are all OK by me. SD.

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Writing January 26, 2015

     JANUARY 26, 2015 –Novel Review! 
You know when things go right, and you know when things go to crap. However, there are times when both happen and you have to ask yourself if you need to work more on your verbal communication skills than your literary ones? I've been having several discussions with two of my editors and it would seem they are very good at editing, but very poor at retention. To make a long story even longer, but using only notes, I found myself re-writing a story line to include what I was led to believe was missing to clarify a particular storyline, but after looking over my note had accomplished it and more, earlier in the book. needless to say there were several days (over two weeks) that I could've used my time for other items on my list. i.e.: Answering E-Mail, Goodread correspondence, Twitter responses, Facebook acknowledgements, and not least on my list this and other blogs!

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Writing January 6, 2015

     JANUARY 6, 2015 –Novella Name Change! 
Like everything in life, one thing is a constant and that’s change. There is one other thing that goes along those same lines and that is trying to be clever. I’m sure there’s an oxymoron in there somewhere. To make a long story short. The fifth and final book in the three Novella series were to be named after the bases of that series. This first one being “A Funny Thing Happened” series, the fifth and final book was to be name A Funny Thing Happened. My in-house critics got wind of it and the Hindenburg was the perfect example of what happened to that idea. I will be announcing what the fifth book is to be called when I’m notified that the changed with the US Copyright office has gone through. Stay tune for the conclusion of this much requested change. SD

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