In order to avoid completely cluttering up this community, I'll add writing updates in comments below this post.
You can basically follow me building my books, struggling with my characters and putting them through hardship.
I'm not sure how easy or hard it is to jump to the last reply in a thread, but I hope it's doable.
If you feel supportive, just give me a few yays or high-fives in a comment. ๐
Today was quite an exciting day.
After uploading all the files yesterday, I was hoping I could celebrate the release of Sky Falls today. And so I posted about it on Mastodon - which met with a wonderful and immediate response - my first sale to a lovely fan.
But then I had to work in my day job, then I met a friend in video chat, and then... I found email from Amazon with a problem in the print file. sigh It wasn't difficult to fix, but it was something I had checked yesterday before grabbing the print file, and it still went wrong. Ah, well.
Then I went out to participate in a march against fascism. (We are doing this in Germany right now, because a fascist party is on the rise, and the "silent" majority is no longer taking it in silence.)
Anyway, I came home to a couple more sales (I don't have that many fans) and a wonderful message by my first reader who had already finished the book! (And loved it!)
What a day! ๐