Self publishing is such fun. We were rolling along this summer preparing for the publication of the second edition of A Dream Across Time in January. Of course we did have other irons in the fire such as having our house up for sale now that we had settled on another house. Just when we had things going nicely in the world of publishing some nasty soul pitched up and wanted to buy our house. We have to move! That's not fair! How can we move, develop the third novel and work on publishing all at the same time.
Being a small outfit there is no one to whom we can pitch the ball and say, "Carry on. We'll be back in about a month."
Now my "to do" list for today becomes: confirm registration for ABI with Bowker (Since you can't talk to anyone in cyberworld you never quite know if what you did worked), get a quote from a floor refinishing guy (Everybody has a cell phone where sometimes you can leave messages which they receive), evaluate the work of website designers (That is, if their sites open up same day - bad indication), reserve a truck (It would be nice if it was available in this county), consult with wife about paint colors for the new house , run PC-cillin (I think I have a virus), get terms and conditions to accountant for review (He owes me a favor), make a run to the dump.
That's today's list and does not reflect the overall status of our publishing empire or work on the latest novel.
I just started tomorrow's "to do" list after looking at my mail which sometimes doesn't arrive until after dark. Go figure!. Sometimes I think I have the mailman from the movie Funny Farm. Anyway, the list starts out with some of the items from today's list and continues with: "buy trash bags" and continues with "ask accountant if we have to register our corporate personal property in the new county and if so when". It probably takes as much time to re-register (or whatever you call it) General Motors as it does for our little publishing enterprise.
But, I've come to believe that the cruelest cuts in life are self inflicted. Such as putting your house up for sale and then someone inconveniently comes along wanting to buy it. Also on the self infliction list has to be self publishing.

Question - Looking for a new home and moving means a lot of driving. Driving leaves a lot of time for thinking or reading signs on the highway. Over the interstates in Maryland we have signs exhorting us to "report suspicious activities". They don't tell us what that means so your imagination can run wild. I think members of Congress as a group engage in suspicious activities. To whom do I report this? My next door neighbor has all the characteristics of a desperate housewife and engages in suspicious activities. Should I report her and to whom? I think this moving thing is already getting me flaked out.

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