Asking for your opinion again

        I am working to finalize my latest devotional/memoir. First I need to choose between the two titles:

“Bones and Stones and Pain, Oh, My – 40 Day Devotional for When You’re in Pain” or

            “Pebbles, Rocks, and Kidney Stones – 40 Day Devotional for When You’re in Pain”

        Let me know which one you like better. Also, below are four more possible covers. When I shared covers previously, the majority voted for the picture of me holding a handful of pebbles I had picked up in a church parking lot when I was suffering from my second kidney stone.

COVER 1

COVER 2

COVER 3

COVER 4

        Not only let me know which one you like the best, but if you like one font better than another or a different color and stuff like that.

        Moving on. The first of November, I finally started posting a list of goals again. Here is what I accomplished:

 Writing:

1)     Finish editing my devotional/memoir about dealing with pain. Done

2)     Finalize the cover for “Bones”. Asking for your opinion

3)     Get my son to work on formatting with me. Done

4)     Reread what I have so far on the second novel in the “Ice Cream Spies” series, in anticipation of getting back to it as soon as “Bones” is finished. Not done.  

 Reaching:

1)     Promote one of my latest works once a week. No, I don’t think I did.

            2)   Promote the vendor sale on November 18. Yes.

3)   Sew three book bags for the vendor sale on November 18. Yes (And by the way, the sale was a huge success 😊)

            4)   Hire someone to do some professional advertising of my books. No.

 Reading:

            1)  Start and finish reading two novels. Looks like only one.  

            2)  Read and study four chapters in the Book of Acts for my Thursday Bible study. Yes.

 Retiring:

1)     Once a week do research on my trip to Cambodia for next fall. I know it seems a long way away, but I gotta keep chasing that dream. Nope, didn’t at all.

2)     Once a week do one hour of research on the family tree. Did a couple times.

3)     Host our annual Thanksgiving dinner. Yes.

         For the month of December, I am only going to work on getting this latest book finalized and published. I have found that getting that done takes longer than it should, or maybe it’s just me being a putz. And Christmas is right around the corner. So I’m not going to put any added stress on myself.

        Have a great day and I look forward to your thoughts on the book title and cover.

Chris

November Goals and More Covers

I have been lax in posting any goals here. Probably because I have been so very lax in keeping any goals. I kind of gave up on any writing goals in September. Now that I’m retired, you would think I have all this time to write, but instead, I don’t know what I do all day, beside scroll through stupid Facebook or watch old reruns of “The Wonder Years” and “Cold Case” on TV.

Let me give it one more shot for this month. I know that some writers do the NaNoWriMo challenge (National Novel Writing Month, where you write an entire novel in the month of November), but let’s not go crazy here.

Let’s take baby steps:

Writing:

1)     Finish editing my devotional/memoir about dealing with pain. The working title is “Bones and Stones and Pain, Oh My – a 40 day devotional for dealing with pain.”

2)     Finalize the cover for “Bones”.

3)     Get my son to work on formatting "Bones" with me.

4)     Reread what I have so far on the second novel in the “Ice Cream Spies” series, in anticipation of getting back to it as soon as “Bones” is finished.

Reaching:

1)     Promote one of my latest works once a week.

            2)   Promote the vendor sale on November 18.

            3)   Sew three book bags for the vendor sale on November 18.   

            4)   Hire someone to do some professional advertising of my books.

Reading:

            1)  Start and finish reading two novels. (I’m in between right now.)  

            2)  Read four chapters in the Book of Acts for my Thursday Bible study.        

Retiring:

1)     Once a week do research on my trip to Cambodia for next fall. I know it seems a long way away, but I gotta keep chasing that dream.

2)     Once a week do one hour of research on the family tree.

3)     Host our annual Thanksgiving dinner. 

And that should do it. My back is doing much better, but I still have days where I am useless. I just gotta power through those times. I can do this!

And here are some possible book covers. Let me know which you think works. 

Chris

Cover #1

Cover #2 ( I do need to highlight the sub-title and my name though)

Cover #3 (the original one I liked the best)

Cover #4 (another one I already shared)

Cover #5 (final one I already shared)