Advent

So far today, I have:

woken up with the same headache I took to bed last night, which at least demonstrates consistency, I guess*;

opened the first door on the advent calendar, and eaten the chocolate therebehind (dark choc marzipan, in the shape of a bell; and I have not encountered an advent calendar since I was a kid, when I do not believe they came with added chocolate - all I remember is pictures, and quarrelling over whose turn it was to reveal the next);

fielded a phone-call from my publisher, to learn that Bitter Waters will be a featured Indie Book of the Month in Kirkus come January;

published Light Errant on Kobo, to go alongside Dead of Light which went up yesterday and Dispossession some months back, for those of you who can use that format;

started a sourdough loaf, hurrah; and

emptied the dishwasher. Don't mock me. I am so degraded that small household tasks feel like significant achievements. This afternoon I propose to work further on the unfucking of my study, as my head - or my headache - is beyond me.


*There was also koffing in the middle of the night, but that at least seems to have passed over.

Unexpected publishing

I have spent the last several years being marginally aware that I was letting chances of income slip away, simply by inaction: specifically, by not publishing my BVC e-books in more formats in more places, not making them available for Nooks and Kobos and i-whatevers and all sorts. It was never a significant pain, though, because none of my books has ever produced a significant income, and I let so many other greater chances slip away, this was never more than a mild shoulda-done-that-before-now kind of itch.

A couple of months ago, I put Dispossession up for Kobo, and lo: the world didn't fall on my head, and I put it in a sale last month and sold more copies than I'd expected. So these last couple of days, I've been busy uploading my other BVC titles to Kobo - and this afternoon, all without any intent on my part, I spent a couple of hours arranging that they should all become available for every other known device also, in every market I have the ability to reach.

So yeah. I'll make other individual announcements later, as they actually appear; but if you buy from Smashwords, the epubs are up there now, and if you go through the Apple store or B&N or pretty much whoever, the books are on their way. Finally. I am so not cut out for the new business model of authorship; I want my ivory tower back, plzkthx.