The SLUSHPILE Blog

I know it probably seems as though I’ve been near MIA again (and can you write a sentence more less certain than the one I just wrote? Probably? Seems? Near?) but I have been hard at work getting the 2008 accounting wrapped up for tax time, including 1099’s for those authors that made over $600.00 in [...]

Sometimes I like to take out my crystal ball, blow the dust off it, give it a little rub and see what I can see.
Oh, crystal ball, what do you have to show me about publishing? How does an ultra-green, ultra-cut-the-waste president now in office affect the publishing industry? Does he affect the publishing industry?
Slowly [...]

Thanks to Gail MacMillan’s head’s up, I submitted one of our titles (mine) to “The Long and Short of it Romance Reviews”.

 
 
 
 
 
 Well, the review is in. There’s something a little disconcerting about starting to read a review of your book and having the first word be “Terrible”. . . lol. But for the complete review, [...]

Yesterday, after blogging about my woes, I continued with the quick fix for the web site. I call it the quick fix because it will work well for the near foreseeable future, but eventually I will have to put a lot more work into it.
As it stands now, I ‘ve switched out the ‘home’ page [...]

Some weeks, you can only look back on and shake your head.
Some days, I have nothing to write about. And then others. . .
This week, looking back, was not one of my better ones. it could have been worse, don’t get me wrong. I could have been blogging about funerals (I have in the past). [...]

If you’re a regular reader, you will probably recall that I posted several days ago of having a problem with my web building software. One that was not an immediate issue, but that, if not fixed, would become a very large issue with our very next title. Unless I wish to list titles on our web-pages [...]

I’m feeling mucho better this morning (thank you all who sent your sympathies, although many of you reported suffering the same or a family member suffering — so sympathy would more apt be called commiseration at this point). I hope those of you still sick feel better soon also!
Today, I received the final distribution sales [...]

I received the Proof to An Unlikely Missionary by Skylar Burris yesterday. It looked good and I put the approval through for the first print run.
One thing I was disappointed with was the aesthetics of the text block. I had enlarged the font and the spacing between which I felt would add ease of readibility (which [...]

As I had anticipated the day before yesterday, I will have the proof for Skylar’s new title in my hands this afternoon. Progress is being made.
As for Yahoo, no response on their web-building software probelm. Lovely.
It is supposed to be a rainy, dreary day here, switching to a mixture of snow and ice. I told [...]

As things go well in one area (the cover for Skylar Hamilton Burris’ next release has now been approved to join it’s text block — I suspect I will have the proof in my hands by Tuesday), they of course disintegrate in other areas.
Yesterday, I began the task of adding Skylar’s new title to the [...]