My wife took our youngest for a mother-daughter camping trip through our church over the weekend. They managed to pick the weekend with the first real cold front... temps down in the high 30s in cabins with little heat. While our youngest loved it, my wife returned shivering and sleep-deprived. Meanwhile, I stayed back with our two older girls, and we spent much of Saturday watching movies. Enola Holmes 2, we enjoyed a great deal. Thor, Love and Thunder--cringy. We had fun though, even with the cringy movie. I have fond memories of movie-binges with my dad. Hopefully, they'll have some of the same.
I am happy to report that I did a much better job of re-instilling my writing habits over the last week. I'm not entirely sure what has changed since I wrote my first books--more kids' basketball and dance for sure--but my time is more limited now, and I have to acknowledge that and stop beating myself up about my writing progress. I have my habits going, but less time. And that's okay.
I pinged IngramSpark about why my book wasn't available yet--we are well past their reported deadlines. Unfortunately, their response was simply that they've had a large influx of work. Maybe this is normal. But I haven't submitted Books 2-4 yet, as I wanted to get through the process with Book 1 first. Given how long this is taking, I suppose I better just get going on submitting the rest. I see that I will have to bump up the price on Book 2 to break even, and that tells me I'll have to bump up prices on Books 3 & 4 even more. I don't know the right financial move--what sells through whom and how many would go through media where I would lose money at a lower price. I wish someone more experienced would step alongside me and talk me through it. It is hard for me to imagine that my situation is unique, or even rare, but my attempts to find answers on FB groups or author friends failed.
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