The haps:

[thatrcooper]

I have a short story out in Dreamspinner's anthology that comes out, oh yeah, oops, *today*. I fail to advertise things. Idk. There's roommates with feeeeelings and kittens with stumpy tails and risotto. Just so you know. I can discuss the other stories in the anthology when I get my copy. :)

I finally got up the courage to reopen the files I was formatting to put up on Smashwords. ("My Man Godric" as a free story and another new short "Under the Bridge" as a cheap experiment in the whole self-publishing thing) only to discover that Word was a dickbag and erased all the formatting. Or hid it, I am not sure. But seeing my hard work gone made me disinclined to continue for the day. I did however, finally email Smashwords about cover artists. Because I want stuff to look as professional as possible even if these are going to be free/cheap downloads. I haven't done anything with this information yet however, because I am poor and I must choose to spend my money wisely, and also this shit is hard, yo.

I see now why only the truly determined would self-publish because I like having people make these kinds of calls for me. Dammit I just need the title on a cover. It doesn't have to be fancy!

Once that is finally, ever?, settled, I can worry about formatting again. And if that goes well, we will see how this goes. (All those people who nicely asked me for ways to download my free stories... well I am trying here. I need an assistant. Why don't I have one? Oh right.)

And hey, in better news, I STARTED WRITING SOMETHING NEW TODAY!!! Woo hoo!!! I hope it continues to inspire me.

Comments

[happy-harper13.livejournal.com]

CONGRATULATIONS! You are amazing! I really need to read your stuff, like, yesterday.

Also, and absolutely feel free to say no or the online equivalent to smiling and nodding politely, I promise I won't be offended at all, but if you need help with cover art, I'd be happy to help. I can't really draw, but I'm pretty good with Photoshop and InDesign. Also, I have some artistically inclined friends with legit drawing skills and plenty of peeps in the lj graphics community, who might be able to help with your cover art conundrum.

Anyway, CONGRATS! I'm sorry to hear about the reformatting. That sounds annoying as hell.

[r-cooper.livejournal.com]

Ooh no I am interested, even in just advice, because the list of artists that Smashwords provides if you ask (not recommends, they are very clear, they just give you a list of available people) is all full of people who seem uncomfortable with erotic stuff or who charge $100 or more. Which... is out of my price range anyway, but definitely for short stories I'm going to put up for free or basically free, you know?