Getting back into writing this week. Thom is in deep trouble, as usual. But don’t worry … he always seems to have another trick up his sleeve.

The “opening week” for Blood Game is in the books. Oddly enough, I can’t give a report on how it did in its opening week, because many different venues have their own different ways of reporting. E-sales, for example, are often not reported until three weeks into the next month. Add that to the list of things I didn’t know about the publishing industry until now.

Fussing over all that, and nudging people to remind them to leave reviews, and trying to get out on social media. In the last month or so, I put a lot of work into getting some media activity going. It was a bit stressful. But it’s self-imposed stress. The good thing about self-imposed stress is it can be cured by the same mechanism that creates it. I hereby choose to stop worrying so much about that stuff. Time to get back to the part of the process that actually gives me joy — writing.

As the words flow across my screen, and Thom gets out of another fine mess I’ve gotten him into, I can back and let the media and marketing I’ve set up do their thing. There’s the “Poker In the Ears” book club thing, which will culminate sometime in April. My college is going to do some publicity. And I did an interview with the “Moms Talk Autism” podcast which will air later this month.

That’s probably all I’ll do in the near future as far as media outreach. It’s time to do more fun things, like submit the book for awards in competitions, and book signing events at book fests and writing conferences.