I am just home from spending the weekend in Portland. The daffodils were blooming, and the flowering trees. Two days of gloriously sunny spring weather, and two days of rainy spring weather. Balance. Balance is good. Yesterday, my first day home, we had a blizzard.
I left my characters in a rather uncomfortable position when I went to Portland, and now I have to jerk myself back out of vacation mode and write them out of it. I know where I need them to go, but I got out of the right mindset and must work my way back into it with the aid of coffee and solitude. The poor things need to be rescued.
I made the move recently and joined KDP Select, so Ashford is available now for Amazon Prime members through the Kindle Lending Library, and I will have periodic free promotion days, of which today is the first. So far today I've given away over five hundred copies for the promotion and Ashford is #7 in free historical fiction. I'm just pleased that it's getting out to so many people.
We're starting rehearsals next week for our June show, and I've been commissioned to create several costumes for it. I also have to finish choreographing my solo. It's the first dance I've choreographed for a show, so I'm rather excited and nervous about that. Of course, Ann is helping me polish it up. I wouldn't dream of just throwing it on stage without the sort of polishing only Ann can give. We'll see how that goes.
I'm planning a summer book promotion to coincide with my ten-year celebration of being cancer-free. The plan is to donate all proceeds from Kindle sales for a certain time range to the Union for International Cancer Control, http://www.uicc.org/ and then finish it off with a head-shaving party. I'll post updates on here and on Facebook once I know more details, and I may be asking for help spreading the word, if anyone's interested.
And now...back to the novel!
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