Felt like I should get a Slurpee when I typed out today’s date...mmm...slurpees...

If you missed it, I have ARC’s of The Biker’s Wench, and will be sending those out this week. The Goodreads giveaway to win one of five goes until Wednesday, so plenty of time to sign up if you’d like! I’m going to go through it this week and make sure I didn’t make any super-huge mistakes, but a quick flip-through confirmed that unlike previous books, there are no transposed or repeat chapters, which is a relief. All I’m doing now is checking for missed typos and such (caught a few more while formatting).

The pre-order links for signed copies will be in the Brazen Snake Books shop by Tuesday, and when you pre-order the paperback, you’ll get the ebook free (and immediately via download link). I have approved the paperback for sale on Amazon/Barnes & Noble, but please note that if you buy a copy from one of those sites this week, it will be the ARC copy, and may change between now and the official July 29^th release date. I just did it that way so I could order more ARC’s to send out. The ebook will be available Tuesday in the BSB store, and I’ll start uploading it to other venues around the 20^th. Yes, I know I’m early, but there’s really no reason to wait, and I have another book to put out this month for the erotica pen name, so may as well get this one finished up and out to readers, right?

Prices are $9.99 (plus shipping) for trade paperback (B&N has it listed for $8.99), and $.99 introductory price for the ebook (limited time offer!). Prices for paperbacks bought directly from me through the BSB shop will be $7.99 (plus shipping), and always include a free digital copy.

I’ll have some release day goodies to give away on the FantasyRanchNovels.com site on July 29^th – should be fun!

This Week on The Variety Pages

Wednesday: Writing Notes – Separation of Author & Character

Thursday: Code Name: Succulent – No Obligations

Friday: Chapter 9 of Falling in Public

Sunday: Weekly Archive

Elsewhere

Tuesday: Chapter 9 of The Minister’s Maid at Fantasy Ranch Novels

Tuesday: New design at NailArt Tuesday

Thursday: Sales Report for June at Beyond the Words (yes, really...promise!)

Saturday: Tea review at Tea onTap

Sunday: Progress Report at Body in Motion

Goal Reports

The goals last week were hit and miss – as the day job goes, so does my mental capacity, and it was difficult to keep up with my serial chapters toward the end of the week. But I managed to finish the erotic short that’s been dragging on, so that was good. I also got a good start on the ms I’m beta-ing at the moment, so that’s good too. Aside from getting TBW formatted for print and the ARC’s in, the business stuff pretty well got pushed aside in favor of more mind-numbing but ultimately relaxing things (like FB games and hobby stuff). And that’s what I needed after the work day, so I can’t really regret the time.

I got three out of my five workouts in, and started a new crochet project, which was fun. Nice to know I remember, even though it’s been awhile.

Regardless of how this week goes, I really need to attend to some business stuff. Like an ebook for TBW, and sales links for the same. Lots of beta reading this week too.

Goals for the Week

Writing

• Write three serial chapters

• Start a new erotica serial

• Finish 2 beta reads, start a third

Business

• Ebook formatting for TBW

• Sale links for TBW on the BSB site

• Bookkeeping

• Send review requests and review copies out

• Finish submissions page for BSB

Personal

• Finish moving all contact info from PDA to tablet.

• Sleep more than 4 hours a night

• Keep tracking workouts/food in Noom app (handy little thing, seriously)

• Catch up on GR reviews

That’s it for me this week. What’s on your plate? Anything succulent?

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