Quick Update On My Challenge and Learning Curves…

Knocking the Learning Curves Done One After Another…

This coming week is Shopify learning curve, to clean up the mess that is our stores. A ton more fun than the Anthropic crap, that’s for sure.

Then I get into my challenge which I will use to get really good at Vellum and also at listings and Bookfunnel. Those are the last three major ones. Yay!!

And my challenge to publish 75 major books by the middle of November? Well, actually, I am about exactly where I thought I would be in this process.

Technically I published one collection in a bundle, but not going to count that until it gets out around the world. So to me, I stand at zero.

So here is my count as I see it happening (I hope.)

5 Detectives Collide (Kickstarter) Starting to go out on time later this month.

4 Writing Books (Kickstarter)… Will take until April to get those updated and out.

4 More Writing Books (From the Kickstarter) Will take me until May to get those updated and out.

1 New Writing Book exclusive to bundle in April. It will publish later in the fall.

60 ten-story collections between now and November. This is to get my short fiction all cleaned up and into places I can find each story and write a bunch more next year. The plan is to do the first one through the entire process the first week of April.

Then another the second week.

Then two per week through October. (Room to miss weeks some along the way.) I can do covers in thirty minutes, and a collection through Vellum in an hour once I have the format and front and back matter stuff. Posting them to the sites will take me some hours. And the hardest part will be picking the ten stories for each book. No repeats in any book. Trying to figure out a way to get these to readers like on Patreon or a subscription after I get up to speed. 600 short stories. Yikes.

Also hope to do six Smith’s Monthly issues. And with a few new projects along the way, I will be way past 75 books published in my 75th year.

So knocking down learning curves, ramping up the challenge slowly. All good so far.