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Last Winter Weekend For Now…
💐Spring🌷 starts tomorrow at 11:33 a.m. EDT near the beginning of Polka Joe Manjack’s Magic Polka Machine, so we’ll dance our way into the next season.
☃️ Melting ⛄ Away ☔
You can’t get too much winter in the winter. ~Robert Frost
My second-favorite season is ending with shocking immediacy.
Oh well, the sooner 💐Spring🌷 starts, the sooner we get back to 🍂 Autumn 🍂. 👍
I’m recovering reasonably well from my second eye surgery although I had an oops this week.
I was feeling incredibly sore, so I did the natural thing. I took a nice hot, soaky bath.
Big freakin’ mistake!
Apparently, you can’t do that when you’re recovering from a cataract removal.
So, I got an unscheduled vacation day due to temporary blindness and the rest of the week, I could barely see the screen to get any work done.
So, yeah, that sucked.
Even so, I got a lot done yesterday. We’re finally getting somewhere with these data conversions, which means I’ll finally have some free brainpower to get some writing done.
Yay! 🇺🇸 Yay! 🇺🇸 USA!
Netflix Marvel Shows NOW On DISNEY PLUS! – How To Access And Manage New Parental Controls
So, the news about the Netflix Marvel series coming to Disney+ but only in 🇨🇦 was a bit premature.
We’ve got it now, but Disney has extended their parental safety controls to prevent Mouseketeers from seeing some of the stuff that goes on at the darker side of the MCU.
As the fellow in the video explains, the Disney streaming service has always had a default setting of TV-14, but it was irrelevant because none of the content exceeded this rating. Now that there are some TV-MA series available, it was sensible to introduce variable settings to protect the munchkins.
Now, I can enjoy some of my favorite comic book based series again. The performances are spectacular and the plots are true to the source material while side-stepping the spandex that is so prevalent in the comics.
⏳ Everything In Due Time⌛
Patience is a virtue, and I’m learning patience. It’s a tough lesson. ~Elon Musk
So, most of late last year, I was looking forward to the eye surgeries I was going to be having early this year.
Now that those have happened and I am in the process of recovering, I have so much work that needs doing.
A lot of it is day job work, but I also need to get some books done so I can start making some revenue for Nerdsylvania Publishing LLC.
I can’t keep paying business expenses out of my salary. I’ve got regular bills to pay.
The point of the publishing house is to generate supplemental and, eventually, replacement income.
That’s not going to happen until I write and publish some books.
Job #1 is The Sentinels.
I could have started with Tales Of Olde Auringia or Far-Flung Reaches, but since I’ve been writing the Holiday Season Serial Romances in the Sentinelsverse, it seems appropriate to start with the folks in Empire City.
Despite the talk of “superhero fatigue“, I don’t see the trend ending any time soon. Personally, I’ve been in and out of comics since the 70s and given the attendance of ComicCons around the world, so have a lot of other people.
This market isn’t drying up in the near future, so getting this series done and out on shelves is the primary goal for the foreseeable future.
Based on my studies, there are a lot of factors in play. It’s easy to get bogged down in the details.
I’ve had the excuse that I can’t do anything until I get my ISBNs, but those will be on the priority list this year.
Given the fact that I’ve already got three print on demand books on the market, it’s clear that I can write a book.
A lot of authorTubers go on and on about how people find the writing process to be daunting or frightening.
I don’t have that problem. What bothers me is all of the details.
They want you to have several passes of professional editing, a professional artist to do a high-end cover for you, sensitivity readers and all kinds of other stuff that has varying amounts of value to any given book.
I’m not going to insult editors and say they’re not necessary. Clearly they are. What they also are is incredibly expensive.
Sure, it’s an investment. I understand that, but where’s the money coming from before you have revenue from book sales?
Thanks to services like ProWritingAid and Fictionary, one can self-edit.
Any necessary business function comes down to money or time. Since I don’t have the former, I’ll need to allocate the latter.
As for cover design, I’m not a graphic artist and am not likely to become one any time soon.
Fortunately, Atticus has some pre-made cover designs and Derek Murphy’s DIY Book Cover Creator has some tools as well.
It’s a place to start. I have an idea of what I’d like my book designs to look like, but I can get those done over when they’re capable of paying for themselves.
I need to learn about “beta readers” and proper marketing avenues. There are so many things to learn about this business and I barely have any time so as it is.
💐Spring🌷 is planting season. I’ve got to get the seeds in the ground, so there will be a 🌽 harvest 🎃 later on.
Time’s a’wasting…
…humph…
That’s all for today. Enjoy ❄️ Winter ❄️ while it lasts. Looks like 💐Spring🌷 is coming in with a bang! ⛈️