As you may already know, our home internet, along with
our phone line, has been down for nearly a week. We cancelled our satellite TV
over a year ago, so have been getting all our TV via the internet as well. Our son
gave us an antenna for Christmas last year, but he never got around to
installing it on the roof or elsewhere outside, so it is sitting on the
bookcase in our living room, where it receives spotty reception. It’s like the
good old days, back in the sixties, when you had to manually turn the antenna
every time you changed channels. The remote control is the only thing still
working in our house.
Which reminds me, only a few days before this
millennial black-out at my house, my laptop died. It’s not been a good month.
Last Friday, my daughter graciously gave me her
laptop, which she hardly ever used. I’d put most of my files from the old
laptop onto USBs over the summer, so haven’t lost a whole lot, and we were able
to resurrect the device long enough to capture the most recent files of my
current novel.
I had hoped to publish that novel and have a print
copy in hand by Thanksgiving. Already a month ago, I pushed that date back to
mid-December. Now, it’s simply not going to happen until sometime after the
first of the year.
You would think, that with nothing else to do
electronically at home, that I would at least have finished editing it,
formatting it, and creating the final the cover. Instead, I’m lying on the
couch, watching old episodes of Columbo and Bones, the only things of interest
on TV via antenna, or the first two seasons of Friends on DVD. I’m looking at
that whole shelf of DVD movies, thinking we may just have to start with the A’s
and watch our way through them.
Our internet/phone carrier won’t be here until the 29th
to try to find the problem. Thank God for cell phones (albeit with spotty
coverage). And that I’m still working part-time at the clinic, where I am
posting this via their internet.
But back to my novel. Here are four more samples
covers. Last time I asked your opinion, many of you didn’t like the circles
with a different color background around the words. So, I got rid of all of
that. Some people also thought there should be a blurb of what the book was
about. There was also mixed feelings about having a picture of the schoolhouse
and questions about what a RASA novel was.
If you don’t remember those other covers, you can
check the previous blog post, otherwise, just let me know what you think of
these. Also which tagline do you like better – “They won’t rewrite the past,
but they can rewrite the now” or “It might take the future to save the past.”
Thanks again for everything. I love you all. Chris
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