I have a few allergies. Most of them developed later in my life… the only really dangerous one is penicillin, which is a very common antibiotic and could theoretically be administered to me if I were unconscious or something.
I really need to get one of those bracelet things. Anyway.
But i also have other, more minor but still super annoying allergies. Pollen seems to be one that comes and goes, and today, by golly, it has come. My eyes feel like they’re swimming in pools of sandpaper and lemon. So much fun (/sarcasm).
As a result, I’m going to stay in the basement where the air is a little cooler, the lights are a little dimmer… and write!
Big thank you to everyone who has picked up my newest book over the last month! The number of units sold is really encouraging! I’m going to have to throttle down on the ads in a few weeks, though, because although it is super nice to see the book in more hands, each sale is costing me about $4 in ads (and since each sale only makes me about $1… you can see the problem!). I’m hoping that if I can get the book out to enough people, the residual sales (people who bought The Hunt for the Wind’s Howling Rage go on to buy Caitlyn Morcos and The Queen of the A.I.s, for example) will eventually compensate for most of those losses, but I can’t count on it. But, for now, I will enjoy my improved visibility for another month, and then throttle things down until I release my next novel and then hopefully throttle everything back up!
Ah, the “joys” of writing-as-a-business. Oh well.
Hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy!