Here are the links to the books I finished editing this week. I'm glad I've gotten these two short books out in a little under a week, as they were waiting with just bits and pieces that needed to be finished. I know I won't have that sort of rapid-fire on anything I might try to write from scratch - so I'm using up my stack while I can.
Mikki Mack book :
Kindle link 3.29 (with color illustrations) -- Paperback link 4.99
"Mikki Mack is a little cat with a lot of attitude, and a lot of heart. She tells the story, from a particularly cat point of view, of how she came to be living at the little house at 67 Maple Street and how things look from the viewpoint of a quite pretty small grey cat (with a gloriously long fluffy tail). Mikki recalls how she was found on the Lost Day, adventures with the mechanical mouse, smiling ceramic duck, a perfect sock and the very special thing she did to help when Mr. Mack got a cold."
Salt Magic book :
Kindle link 2.99 (with b/w illustrations) -- Paperback link 4.99
"Day after day was exhausting. The future was so bright, graduating from Divination school. We were supposed to have all the answers, right? Hindsight is all 20-20, and even those that study the Future don't always get it right. But it takes years and the realization that this magic is not what it seems - it is tearing every cell in your body apart, because you are not built the same way everyone else is. In fact, very few of your kind ever survive. This, is salt magic. And knowing that, makes all the difference. A thinly veiled fantasy story of my experience having Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, otherwise known as POTS"
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I went to sleep last night knowing I had to be up early today to go cover a postal route. But then, I woke up way too early, and decided not to go back to bed, got ready instead. I made my thermos of coffee. I planned what I was supposed to do, in what order, to get the day done. And then, at 5:30 am, the carrier texted me saying she is 'going to go in anyways'... so now I don't actually NEED to go anywhere. I did water the garden, and take one bag of trash up to the road in the sled. *blows air up forehead*
So I was left a bit hanging. I went and edited a twelve page story into a thirty-four page book, and got it ready for publication. It probably won't be available for purchase until tomorrow.
Then, I sort of fell out on going to town. And here I am writing this, a drop in a puddle far from any river that will take it to the ocean. Caught between wanting to curl into a ball because of the economy and knowing that I need to keep doing things and getting things out and taking chances and it isn't going to get better by itself.
Did some Japanese, and some Swedish. Put out a promotion post for my little cat book. The books I brought to the gallery are slowly selling now, and the rest of the toys that I made a few years ago. I do mean slowly. I got a check in the mail yesterday that will help a little bit with gas, but I haven't knit more toys, and I'm not sure if/when I will order new copies of these two small books to put in the basket there. The cat book is cute, has illustrations, and might do well.
I'm just trying to stay optimistic but all of that uses social energy, too.
Later : we made dinner, finished the rest of my Japanese lessons, and drew some more digital illustrations that might be used in my novela.
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