This morning, I've released Living Next Door to Heaven book 10, What Were They Thinking? on Bookapy and in other venues. This was released as a serial on SOL as LNDtH3. In publishing the books, the three serials became ten long novels, totaling over 1.5 million words. The stats indicate the saga has been downloaded on SOL, well over two million times, which translates to somewhere between ten and twenty thousand actual readers. THANK YOU!
I have managed to release the series on Bookapy weekly for ten weeks. Wow! What a challenge! I hope you enjoy the eBooks.
In other news, we're just four chapters from the end of Team Manager SWISH! I've already uploaded the first chapter and cast list for Team Manager SPRINT! to begin posting three days after SWISH! ends. And YES! The eBook will be available at the same time. That will all happen right after the first of October.
The "production" date for my new travel trailer has now been changed to a "ship" date! With luck, it will be in Yakima by the end of this week and I may be able to pick it up for my birthday on September 27. Nice way to turn 72. They say the birth anniversary that matches the day of the month you were born (27 in my case) would be your golden birthday. I don't think anyone celebrated those when I was in my twenties. But I think that the birth anniversary that is the inverse of the day of the month you were born (72 in my case) should be a diamond jubilee! I'm going to strut that for the entire next year.
Nearly all my worldly possessions are packed in sealed plastic bins, stacked on the patio of my RV site, and covered with a tarp against the rain and wind. I have about two more boxes of clothes and kitchen items to pack, and then I'm moved out of this trailer.
I had a lot of trouble getting a cleaning service to come out to clean the trailer. Something about me living in a nudist park, I think. Reading about my difficulties, my friend and neighbor, Colleen, volunteered to come and help me clean. I accepted. We spent four hours, scrubbing floors, kitchen surfaces, bathrooms, and windows. I was so thankful for the help! However, I nearly lost my cool when she showed up at my door in a little French maid outfit! What a trip! I just need to thank her again for helping get this place ready to sell.
One of the big advantages of completely emptying a domicile is the discovery of things you thought were lost and gone forever. Among those items in my trailer, I found a box of manuscripts from the 1970s and 80s that I thought had been lost forever. These are all short stories and humorous essays. I plan to start posting them here as a collection, probably under the Wayzgoose moniker, since I hadn't invented Devon Layne or aroslav at the time. That will come sometime after the first of the year. I need to get some other stories cleared from my desk before then.
One of those stories will be my November novel. I'm going for my eighteenth consecutive "win" during National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). Currently I'm just continuing to make notes on the Minoan society of 2000 BC and its evolution into Mycenean Greece. That will get me through the first two chapters when I start writing, and I need to brush up my Homer for the Trojan War after that.
One common theme in Bob's Memoir: 4000 years as a free demon is the demon's success and failure at courting women in the different ages of man. It seems that from the Bronze Age forward, Bob could always find a woman who would. This will be a little bit spooky, a little bit sexy, and a lot funny as we follow the adventures of a happy-go-lucky (mostly lucky) demon through human history.
And that's this week from the heart of your favorite author. Or one of them. Sort of on the favorite side. At least tolerable. Most of the time.