Well, I’m letting deception cook for a little bit. I did find a few errors reading through it, but I’ll correct those before the 31st when it’s when it’s supposed to go out (hopefully ) . This time when downloading the PDF copy of the book for print on D2D it went smoothly. It took it this time it’s not an issue, the cover fit so I’ve got my finger crossed. I’m just hoping I haven’t found very many mistakes so hopefully downloading corrected. Copy of the PDF won’t be an issue.

If it isn’t one thing–its another!

I’m a little fed up with Microsoft. Every time I save something to the cloud it makes me sign in again, which is annoying. You get one thing working right and something else goes wrong. Right: I found a way to put photos and book trailers on my iPad without having to go to email them, which is a plus because some of the book trailers exceed the 2-megabyte capacity for email. That seems to work just fine. I downloaded them to Facebook so and they went across without a problem so that should work. I still need try and load them up on Amazon, which is another issue because last time I did it, they kicked two of them back to me saying it violated their community standards for God knows what reason. I really wish these companies like Facebook and Amazon and Twitter who have these so-called “companies standards” would be specific when they tell you can’t do this, I mean, how difficult is that? They must read it anyway why can’t they highlight it and kick it back to you and say you can’t do this?

Vertical Books Trailers 4 Instagram/Pinterest

I also need load book trailers up on my website, which is another thing as the website badly needs reworked. I’m hoping I’ll learn more about creating book trailers because I really would like to be able to shift some of the features around. For instance, being able to put in a text box between the videos would help now I’m still learning to do that. I did put in a request with Book Brush asking them about it, but I haven’t heard anything back yet. Oh well. The video book trailers I make on Book Brush are all horizontal, which means they don’t fit well on Instagram and Pinterest. So, I’m gonna need figure out how to make vertical book trailers. I’d like also to learn to do presentations which could be turned into videos. Adobe says you can do that, but so far, I haven’t figured out how the hell it works on their site, I would like to know how to do that. Create a nice little slideshow thing.

Learning Curves Stink!

Here I am nearly 70 and I’m having to re-re-educate myself on how to use tech. I wish this stuff had been available back when. It would’ve been nice to have it, but then when I first really started getting back into writing and painting, reel to reel computer tapes were in (late 1970s). And they were considered brand new tech. I know I lost a book; I was writing it on my lunch hour at work when I worked for the purchasing department. I had an hour. I didn’t have a car, and I didn’t drive so I wrote. I went back to files area and used a computer there and I use my own floppy discs and all that kind of stuff. but You know the 8-inch floppy that we use back then which were such high-tech items, nobody even has systems that could’ve downloaded them anymore, so I lost the book that I had on it.

Books to Write–If I can find the original Manuscripts!Stormbringer

It was sci-fi: a little bit sword and sorcery a little bit sci-fi. At the time I was working on something a little like John Carter of Mars. The other book that I worked on in high school and almost finished I never got out of the handwritten stage. It was a sci-fi western which should go over real good right now if I could dig it out.

Spaceship Down

I had a spaceship crash in the 1900 timeline. I kind of picked Arizona because I knew more about Arizona. The spaceship carried a race of amphibious humanoids, but they did have passengers. One of those passengers was a professor type. He looked a little like a monkey and had wings and he would get drunk on milk. Which is quite funny. I had three sets of couples on it. One of them was a was from the amphibious race which had a caste system. The girl that one was a high clan lady and the guy who was in love with her was a warrior type which–well let’s just say he was a lower caste, so she would’ve been marrying down if she chose him. The other two couples were humans. There was a cowboy type, whose dad owned the ranch where the crash occurred, his best friend who was really a dude and knew absolutely nothing about the West. Then there are the two women who were parts of the couples. One of them was a schoolteacher, and the other one was a professor’s daughter who was trying to make a name for herself as a professor too so she could be regarding the way or father was and make him proud of her.

Anyway, they find several lifeboats and later the ship they were traveling in. It was different. It was fun. I have no idea where the original manuscript is. I think that one’s buried in my cedar chest, but it is all in a hand-written Copy as well.

Maybe when I run out of things to write about my Saint Antoni and my 3 other series, I’ll go back and work a little bit on them.