Aurora Dimitre's Books and Rambling

 Third graders are truly like feral cats the week before Christmas. Not that they're being naughty, because they're not--but my god was trying to teach them today like trying to herd cats. Everyone's everywhere all at once! And there are twenty!

 Against all prior expectations, I will be publishing every book I planned to publish this year... probably? I think? I have three weeks left and thirty thousand words left of rewrites, so as long as my cover's done by the end of the month, Kaz at the Approach will be published by the end of the month. Below is the first chapter. Enjoy.  

 So I did my first author fair today. It was at the library I used to work at, back in college; drove about an hour to be there, brought at least one copy of each of my books (man, this shit is hard when you have 30+ books), brought about six copies of SKWC and six copies of Guillaume , naturally, and I sold twelve books. Add the five books I sold to coworkers the week before when I shared the post about the author fair on Facebook and they wanted to buy some, I made like, $155.00. That's taking out what Amazon charges for author copies, naturally. 155 dollars and a box of books in the garage.  This doubled what I made from my books this year. This surpassed last year. I still need to figure out if my one Square payment is going to transfer automatically at some point or not. I talked to a lady who was looking for a book for her teenaged child who was clearly genderfluid or transgender or something (she didn't seem to know) and she was curious about Serial Killers With Cookies...

 

 Not much. The answer is really not much.  I am probably just a week or so away from publishing a novella in the Tinon universe; it'll follow Reko's POV pre- Circus Wing s , so for those of us who wanted more Kai (I'm included here), here's more Kai, and not just Kai, but teenaged Kai who won't keep his mouth shut even worse than when he was an adult. After that, all I have left for the year is Kaz at the Approach, and last I checked, the rewrite of that was going well; I've just been focusing on For My Country because it's so close to being over.  Reading-wise--I've sort of figured it out. How to read during the school year while also getting a Master's and having a more involved class than last year and all that. I've been reading more than I was the first few weeks, which is nice. Still not at top speeds, but, eh, next week we have a three-day week, so that'll be nice.  My Master's is going well. Fall classes are easier than summer cla...