With regard to covers, one thing that's nice is now that I understand to focus on the genre for the cover, I can get started a lot sooner.

That's totally fair, but I haven't even been given a response to schedule my cover. I have everything ready to go. Blurb, stock photo, examples of other covers I liked, etc. They already know what genre I work with because they've done my first two books. They did know I'd be contacting them in July and had no issue with the time frame.

Dan, I'm glad you recreated your drawing!  And Maggie, your book sounds very intriguing.

I spent last night making a video that I hope will get people to try my books.  We'll see.  LOL

Thanks, Lori. I'm hoping for at least interesting, but I'll take intriguing. ;)

Good luck with the video. I have a few up on youtube but never could figure out what to do with them.

Finished editing the WiP last night. Nearly 25K and 104 pages.

Occasionally, messages go to spam.  Sometimes quite inexplicably.  Just the other day, an order from a customer came in and I did not see it until two days later when I happened to check the spam folder.  Made no sense why it went to spam; it used similar wording to previous eMails from them that did not go to spam.

This has happened a few times, so I try to make a habit of checking the spam folder, but I don't do it every day because most days, only actual spam is in there.  Probably 95% of the time, only spam goes in there.

So, it happens.

Even addresses I have whitelisted still occasionally end up flagged as spam.

Oy.  And, of course, if you disabled the spam filters, you'd be flooded with junk.  I have one eMail account where I don't have spam automatically sent to the spam folder.  I manually send the spam into the spam folder.  And I'd say maybe 80-90% of the messages I receive at that address are spam.

And, occasionally, real messages end up lost in the spam and I end up accidentally throwing them into the spam folder!

So, whatever method you use, you're gonna lose and real messages end up in the spam folder.

I hate spam.

The bottom line is that, before giving up, it's a good idea to send a follow-up eMail just in case the first one went to the spam folder because you never know.

I wrote 235 words for the lame space opera today.  It really needs a lot of work.  I like the prologue but I'm not yet happy with anything else.

I ended up writing more on the regular space opera yesterday, so I finished with a total of 350 words on it yesterday.  And I've written 269 words for it so far today.

I'd really like to finish the lame space opera first, because it was supposed to be an easy thing to finish, and I thought it would give me something in the genre to release prior to the regular (more serious) space opera.  The plan was for the lame space opera to be around 30k words.  Maybe 40k?  But it's at about 33k right now and nothing much has really actually happened yet.  There's supposed to be tons of space battles and whatnot and it's a lot of dialogue.  Except for the prologue.  The prologue is pretty balanced with action and dialogue.  The rest, ugh.

I spent last night making a video that I hope will get people to try my books.  We'll see.  LOL

Good luck with the video!

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