Preparing for the summer Book Festival, Revising Volume 3

Just finished a photo shoot using the talented services of Elisanth and Zatsepin Alex for illustrations and book covers. I now have a perfect custom Glycerin who reflects her appearance and looks in my saga of a rock band. Glycerin as she appears early in her career.

And Glycerin as she appears later on (not a final cover for volume 3).

While all that is going on, revising and extending the third volume until it tells the story I want to tell.
Lots of coffee and/or adult beverages involved.

Facebook is "faking it" while looting musicians, models, authors, etc

Facebook has dropped a bomb on small business, sole proprietors, non-profits by essentially choking delivery of posts from pages to their fans to below 1%.

Most of us don't mind paying something to assure post delivery to people who have asked for them by liking a page. Problem is Facebook has a deranged toxic idea of what is affordable. The fees would bankrupt even moderately successful music bands, popular models, successful authors. It's idiotic. So many of the content creators on Facebook are either leaving FB or letting their pages wither as they move to other platforms where posts are reliably delivered to fans.

This is rather tragic as there was value to FB - but without reliable post delivery, there is no sense to giving them any money at all.

Anyway, I've been spending time helping any of my circle who needs technical assistance with new platforms, connecting them, etc.

This little video I made of my book characters covering a tune by Seether kind of expresses everyone's attitude toward Facebook quite nicely ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoBN_gpR_UQ#t=50

Mamiko: Green eyed Mamiko, lenses from Uniqso

 My buddy and book cover model Mamiko got her some nifty contact lenses a while back. They were cute but I missed seeing the last photo with one green and one blue eye. Very strikingly cute.



Mamiko: Green eyed Mamiko, lenses from Uniqso: As I wrote earlier, I wanna show you my new green lenses from Uniqso. If you are following my fanpage you already saw first picture...

Volume Two "Surfing With The Alien" (It Really IS Rocket Science) available in paperback at Amazon

The second book of the series It Really IS Rocket Science is available at both my webstore and at Amazon.

The struggling rock band “The Lost Girls” and a rocker-in-exile join forces to form a new band called “It Really IS Rocket Science”. Join Blar, Tsika, Glycerin, Kpau, and a gang of other misfits as they strive to make it to the top and figure each other out along the way. Adventure, comedy, drama, romance – kind of the way life really happens. Portland, Oregon may be home but the life of a band is on the road as they rumble across the Pacific Northwest and maybe the world.

In this second volume of the series, the Rocket Science people go on retreat to write original music for the band. Do they know enough about each other to be isolated in California's Big Sur for a month? Blar is smitten with Tsika but the dynamics of their relationship with that of Glycerin and Kpau are complicated. What IS going on with Glycerin, the enigmatic shy guitarist? Are there creative ways to get by in life for misfits who care about each other? Follow the band as they work the gigs, the festivals, head to the ski slopes, and get lost in rural twilight zones. It’s a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll.

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If you like the cover model, check out her other activities at Mamiko's Page.

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Grab the first book (IRIRS, "A Rock'n'Roll Fantasy") at the same locations in both paperback and e-book formats (Kindle, Nook, Kobo).

I'm just in the final edit stages of the second volume of the series "It Really IS Rocket Science". Here's the cover images with links to my store and links to Amazon and B&N. Available in both paperback and Kindle/Nook/Kobo formats. I'll update this with links to volume two when it releases.

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