Silly Putty Brains

I get distracted so easily!  When there are little distractions like a dentist appointment, Father's Day or school starts or stops, I usually get back on track, but my distractions have been much bigger, like looking for new jobs, looking for a new house (maybe?) looking for a used car, personal stuff (I'm not mentioning, but putting into my second book) and the biggest one as of late is finishing the book I've been working on for I don't know how many years.  My friend's book club read my book with the latest updates.  It was nerve wracking, but exactly what I needed to get this project finished!  Thanks, Lynn, for that kick in the butt. 

So, I got their feedback, I'm making some changes and then I'm done!  I only wrote to one agent about this book and if I don't hear back from them by the time I finish correcting typos and making some other corrections, then I'm uploading it to Amazon's Create Space, where my book will be available through Amazon on a "print on demand" basis.  In other words, there are minimal fees to get my book uploaded and because of technology they can print books as they are ordered vs. the old print a thousand copies and try to sell them out of the back of my van or something.  So, I will let you know when it's ready and available. 

That being said, there are a lot of things we need to pay for because our kids expenses seem to keep going up as they get older.  So, I've been debating different part time jobs to pay for school so I can get a full time job as a chemical dependency counselor.  But do I really want to work with addicts full time?  I already have to deal with myself full time and that's not always easy work!  So, I wonder whether my book will make me any "real" money, you know outside of my friends and family and I'm not so sure my family wants to read it anyway.  When I have this many decisions to make my brain turns into silly putty and I smash it onto the comics to produce an image and I start pulling on it until it's really distorted and hard to understand.  THIS is why I have NOT been posting on my BLOG!  I am not making any sense right now.  Maybe on the next post!