Category: indie author
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March 2022 Newsletter: New Book!
Die by the Sword Coming Soon I am very pleased to announce that my new book, Die by the Sword, a novel of suspense, is now available for you to pre-order at www.amazon.com/dp/B09WKX9ZR2 for the very special price of $2.99. (The cover shown here is a stand-in for the final one that I’m still working…
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February 2022 Newsletter: a troubled dream
What Troubled Dream Is This? Usually I don’t recall my dreams, but I did remember the one I was into just before I woke up Friday morning. I dreamed that Jess and were at the premiere of a Stephen Amell movie, and Amell himself of Arrow fame was there. He wore a pair of chinos…
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January 2022 Newsletter
Starting a New Year . . . Somehow, I’ve managed to start the new year by catching a cold. Apparently, this happened when I went to my doctor for a well woman check-up about a week ago. Of course, I went fully masked and observed the distancing protocol for the most part except when my…
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December 2021 Newsletter
The Old and the New Out with the old and in with the new isn’t working so well for me this year. For example, at a time when some of my friends send virtual Christmas cards, this year I decided to send out real stamped cards. For me, the process involves looking back at the…
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November 2021 Newletter
Cat Chores and More Like my daughter and I, our black Bombay cat named Safa has his chores around the house. (We first named him Satyavan and his sister Savitri from the Hindu story about a couple similar to the Greek Orpheus and Eurydice, only in the Hindu version the wife rescues her hubby from…
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October 2021 Newsletter
A Bad Case of the Ya-Gottas “Ya gotta,” says the voice in my head. “Ya gotta get a COVID booster shot.” “Ya gotta work on your website; it’s a mess.” “Ya gotta trim the hedges before the weather gets bad.” “Ya gotta redo your Amazon Author Central page and add pages in other countries.” “Ya…
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Busier than a button on the . . .
Hi, Everyone! As my dear old darling dad used to say, it’s been busier than a button on a back house door at the Kincaid house this past month. Whew! For instance, the ceiling in the front bathroom of our house had been leaking since the summer of 2019. No need to deal with it…
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August 2021 Newsletter
My Once and Future Novel (Part 2, I think) Hi, All! A few nights ago, I thought about retiring on my birthday coming up really soon on 9/11/2021. I’ll be eighty, and maybe it’s time to stop. I told myself that maybe I’d be happy and fulfilled reading and reviewing other people’s books and taking…
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Postcard Anyone?
As you can probably tell from the photo, my trials making postcards to promote my publications often include plenty of errors . . . And now that the touch pad on our multi-purpose printer no longer works, we need a printer, especially to print color images on the front sides of postcards that I make…
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June 2021 Newsletter
I have become the old woman that . . . I have become the old woman that, wearing pajamas, robe, and flip-flops, totters to the curb on trash day to put one last plastic bottle in the recycle bin. Or still in her nightclothes, she carries the bird feeders to their hooks in the back…