Oh No, More Damn Joe Stuff!

I'm staying busy and it looks like juggling is about to result in several releases. My history has been mumbling in the background for months or years, juggling at least three projects at a time, and periodic explosions of deliveries. Cover of the new CLIMBING THE SPIRAL MOUNTAIN Most of these new appearances are driven by new release through Kindle—mobi editions for eReaders—plus the attendant new access to print books for Amazon readers, which will translate into new ebook editions for AppleBooks (formerly iBooks). So what? What has to be different is my approach to letting the world know the books are there, what is in them, what value they may have. I have to blow my own horn and I have never been good with that. I'm trying to learn. I have downloaded and am reading the "free" books on the ways to kill it on Amazon sales lists, the free book giveaways, the discounts, the paid ads on FaceBook and other social media (which is a problem, because FaceBook i...

Graphic element for SSC #12, exploring the Colonials who left Earth forother Worlds. I am cleaning. Not my house - yet - but the material to go up for sale in April. The final issue of the pre-sold subscriptions for my Jorune newsletter SEGMENT: SHO-CAUDAL #12 is being prepared, and I am cleaning up the HTML code for the attendant website. As much as I like the program, the Mozilla WYSIWYG editor, Sea Monkey, has been allowed to remain nonfunctional in the new web-authoring world. It no longer allows a search in the raw HTML mode. It also makes an automatic change in the HTML where the location of all graphics and download files are rewritten to seek my local folder names. That doesn't work — people on the web won't be able to read my local folder. So I have to use a raw text editor to seek and replace all the "file:///" replacements. I use CotEditor but miss my old BBEdit text editor for webpage work. Oh well. While I am waiting for the editor in England ...