Wow … what a pleasant surprise!

I knew it was about time to receive a royalty check, but I honestly wasn’t holding my breath expecting much at all.  My new publisher had been withholding 90%(!) of my royalties each pay period as a guarantee against “returns.”
“Returns” in the publishing biz are when retail stores order more books than they can sell, so [...]

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November thankfulness

I decided to participate in a November challenge to post at least one thing you’re thankful for on each remaining day in November until Thanksgiving.  Rather than posting here on my blog, I’m going to be posting most of my “thankful” notes and updates on Twitter because they’ll probably be short.
http://www.twitter.com/dsimple
I’m probably most thankful this week [...]

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A very nice surprise … :-)

Earlier this week, I went to my mailbox that I rent just for receiving snail mail from online sources.  Well, a regular reader of this blog and her husband sent me a generous ($500!) check to see us through the next couple of weeks while I’m waiting for the pay from my new job to kick in.  It’s such [...]

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Most excellent news!!!!

I was just officially offered that job (the one with the three interviews that I’d been waiting to hear back about for weeks)! 
It’s just a part-time seasonal position, but it sees me through the holidays … and since I’m sort of planning on starting back to school in January, that should work out [...]

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Protected: Trying this private password protected post thing

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Another quick update

Haven’t heard anything from that job I’d applied for and had three interviews for.  I was told not to call and that I’d only hear from them if I have the job offered to me.  Because the training session for the job starts on November 9th, if I don’t hear anything in the next few [...]

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Requested information

Someone had asked me awhile back to put information here on my blog for people who wanted to help out in some sort of way during this current crisis.  I was thinking that even if people are just doing their Christmas shopping online at Amazon this year, if someone entered the Amazon site through one of [...]

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Rent paid …

Wow, made it through another month with no income.  But after I paid the rent today, I have $10 left in the bank.  Oh, dear.     At least we have a roof over our heads for another month … but not sure how I’ll pay phone or utilities or put gas in the van [...]

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Another quicky update

Seems like all I’m doing here is posting brief updates.  Here’s another one.  My oldest daughter’s flu seemed to get better, and then she suddenly took a turn for the worse.  Fever, coughing, worse than before.  Took her to the doctor today.  He didn’t do a Swine Flu test so he couldn’t say for certain [...]

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Update

Just made contact a few minutes ago with the agent about the spokesperson gig. Sounds VERY exciting. I should hear back something in the next day or two. It would start ASAP and has me just about jumping up and down with excitement about the possibilities … pray, Pray, PRAY! (Thanks!)

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