Second Week of December 2025

This week's goals were:

  1. Press publish on Book 2 of Vay Ideal before the Smashwords 'deadline' Done — New Names, Old Crimes
  2. Write some words on Book 3 Done — Some of them are included in the preview at the end of New Names, Old Crimes
  3. Create audiobook account and finish production on audiobook for Death In Transit
  4. Work on super-secret project Done — I didn't specify what. I'll get into it a bit.

Unfortunately, when publishing New Names, Old Crimes, I accidentally used the wrong cover. That required me to go back and fix the book in three separate places but supposedly I had to wait until it was out on a given platform before editing. I think that was probably actually true for Amazon. I'm not sure whether it was true for Kobo. It appears not to have been true for D2D because the book still isn't in all its systems and I managed to get it updated anyway.

That kind of put a whammy on my week.

I legitimately don't know when I would have found the time to work on the audiobooks with the other things I worked on. I do need to try to get those in before the beginning of the year.

Other things I worked on

I created a Youtube channel and added my video version of the story Wrapped as a short. It turns out to be 30 seconds long as a short. I learned a lot. Mostly that I cannot use my phone's camera for video without it looking like trash. But also that hardcoding subtitles in is a waste since Youtube has its own system for doing that with shorts.

My roommate and I have shared custody of a good video camera and I've got that charging for the next adventure.

The super-secret project

For a few years, I've wanted to do a puppet video for Christmas. Last year, I started making the puppets. This year, I'm not too keen on actually finishing and recording the puppets when I have some other options available to me. I've done the audio recordings. The audio needs to be effectively produced in order for me to do the other bits.

Next week's goals

  1. Finish audio production and get most of the visual elements done for the super-secret project
  2. Create audiobook account and finish production on audiobook for Death In Transit

Yep, it looks short but all the work going into the super-secret project to have it ready before Christmas is kinda going to be a lot.

#ProgressUpdate #VayIdeal