Oh No, More Damn Joe Stuff!

I'm getting things done but I need to track when and where things are being done. If I do a public diary it opens me to the wise do-not-help folk with endless judgments on how I do what I do. With two exceptions, they also cannot finish anything in their own. But they are full of what I should be doing. Past seven days. Two things per day in the juggle. Medical, full physical, two wound care nurses, one assessment from my insurance provider. Final Final Final CLIMBING THE SPIRAL MOUNTAIN, my primary novel. Received the 150,000-word manuscript back from my editor and am going through to approve or deny his mark-ups. There were a couple of questions that needed answering and one gaffe on language ( They cut up the cake to eat after the speaker,  which could suggest cannibalism to some readers.) Did the final, real, final final final, cover for the book. Enlarged the graphic of the lone hiker, enlarged the type, shifted to the Slenderella font, which had to be tweak for ...

I don't go into great detail on my medical stuff these days. People don't like that. And it is distracting. Let's just say that as the result of my most recent medical - 'focus' - I am distracted from the speed completion of my projects. I refuse. Which is not to say that I am not working on things. Just not things as quickly as I would like. Something every day, no matter what. That means I am doing the next project, SONG OF ORPHANS, while I am waiting on final edit pass on CLIMBING THE SPIRAL MOUNTAIN from the acknowledge editor in Connecticut, and I am continuing work on the Jorune projects - SEGMENT: SHO-CAUDAL #13 (and final) and the ORFA: JORUNE write up. Every day. A few hours on one of those. Or the marketing side of all of it. And I have more that could be plugged in for activity not related to these four. Like - art. Drawing for the cover of COLLECTED DANSTEAD TRAVELLER. And a new interest - pour art. Using liquid acrylic in a diluting medium...

It is the part of the trip that just requires one foot in front of the other. I have mentioned "the juggle" before. And it still looks like three Jorune projects and four books relaunched in the next sixty days. CLIMBING THE SPIRAL MOUNTAIN, everything it prepared to plug the final text from the editor to the electronic version (first) in the various electronic publication platforms - Kindle, Apple Books, and about a dozen more. Then, the print version from Amazon goes up, which requires a printed proof. This has priority. It is also the book of which I remain most proud. The problem is getting people to read and review on Amazon. The problem of promotion is dependent on the cooperation of Amazon readers willing to post a review. Amazon withholds some tools until you hit 16 reviewers, and 16 isn't that big a number. But <16 means - no. I'm getting my part done and may offer a day of free downloads to encourage readers, whose reviews can be accepted. But tha...