A hum­b­lerific two weeks have passed since my last post. Lame, yes. Life, yes (cue the Iggy Pop man). I haven’t made many strides in any­thing this month, it’s just been one of those many-days. Though will­ing I may be, my mind does not agree. I’ve tried to tempt it with short story cheeses, novel wines and com­pe­ti­tion crack­ers, but it just isn’t inter­ested. It’s more focused on bor­ing ‘real-life con­cerns’ — bleh, how boring.

It’s been rough, frankly…

…I’m hav­ing issues with my job — what’s new (to everyone).

…it’s tax sea­son, and my head hurts.

…I’m get­ting both my kids into new schools for September.

…I never seem to see my wife.

…my dog just came back from the den­tist, and had 4 teeth remoeeeyah, now I’m get­ting a lit­tle pus­si­fied.

Oh, and I’ve been read­ing a lot of things about Amazon’s KDP Select, and pric­ing for eBooks in gen­eral, and — though the sin­gle book I have out is no Pulitzer prize win­ner — can’t help but feel like I’ve unwit­tingly jumped into some self-fashioned bargain-bin e-basket.

Many com­ments I’ve read from read­ers do not shine nicely on how they feel about 99c priced books, and I’d hate to have forced myself into that par­tic­u­lar cor­ner when I really have no pref­er­ence on 99c or $2.99 etc. My book being out there is what counts, the mile­stone it meant for me, not the price. But if that mile­stone has turned into some ‘read-it and delete-it’ memorandum on my online pres­ence as an imag­i­neer, then that sucks. I don’t want to make a quick buck, and I’d pre­fer 5 peo­ple buy it at a decent price and enjoy it (or pre­tend to and write some­thing nice on Ama­zon) than 10 peo­ple buy it on the cheap and never even read it.

I’m re-thinking it all, I tell ya… IT ALL! Kind of, in-between all the crazy men­tioned above.