More shakeups at work

At work, there's a big reorg afoot. It's the aftermath of the layoffs. We've been told some programmers may change managers. There's a meeting Friday, to discuss the reorg I presume. No matter what happens, I see the reorg as a positive thing, we will finally know the 'go forward' plan. Over 4500 words on the River City adventure. It's not feeling near done yet.

River City Adventure

Over 3500 words on the River City eBook. I think it's going to be a long one, I don't see an end in sight yet.

River City Adventure

Worked a bit on the new eBook. Watched some tv. I'm off to bed.

More about Perpetual Ray

It's now been a week after my latest eBook submission on the smashwords.com web site. Some people have downloaded the free eBook. Thanks much to them. Smashwords is the electronic version of self-publishing. In the old days, self-publishing meant paying somebody to print your book and that seemed like a con job. But, now we've progressed to the point where the only cost of publishing is your copyright fees. I wonder if I should write something less absurd, start a new series. I added a page to the River City eBook, don't know where that's going, yet. Some memorable new characters are introduced.

Limbo

Haven't written much since Perpetual Ray was released. The writing on the new eBook stalled. I guess it's time to change the scene and move it along. Work was quiet, today was the Monday after the Thursday layoffs. When we're out of our cube, those of us that remain merely wave at each other in the hall, there is little talk. There is no talk about our group moving to the new headquarters building, nobody cares about that anymore.

Perpetual Ray stats

So, I'm home now, checking the Perpetual Ray stats. Several downloads, I'm much pleased, thanks everybody who downloaded Perpetual Ray. I read the 2 'Ray' eBooks (by A. S. Warwick) before I did the final edit of Perpetual Ray and I got a sense of the Brian/Ray dialog, which was a lot more complex than I remembered. For one thing, Ray never uses contractions, so I had to go thru all of my Ray dialog and change every "you're" to "you are" and so forth. And, Brian and Ray really aren't buddies, Ray calls Brian "sir" a lot, albeit sometimes in a snarky sarcastic way.

Perpetual Ray

I published a new short story on smashwords.com. It's a sequel to my other stories. The story uses 2 characters from another author. The other author was going to write some of the dialog for his characters, but then he proceeded to work on his own stories for 2 weeks, then finally he said it was ok with him if I wrote everything myself, as long as I said his characters were used by his permission. I then did another edit that added 700 words, mostly enhanced dialog for his characters, bumping the total word count for the story to over 4000. The 2 week delay actually worked out good, as it gave me a fresh look at everything and I'm happy with the results of the final edit.