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I made good on my recent plan to surprise-release Diwa & Kaffi on July 1! Here's the link:

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1412637

So how did it feel to pull it all together in record time? Really great, actually! Even with the trouble I had getting the photo editing software to behave for the cover, I'm happy with the result! I'd finished revision on it some time ago so most of the work was just on the cover and the formatting. The latter only took a few hours at most.

I've definitely missed releasing new e-books on a yearly basis. I'm still happy that I took a few years off for personal reasons, but I'm glad to be back. And if this one does well maybe I'll pick up one of my backburner projects to work on while I work on MU4 so I can get back into the habit again!

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 So this past Friday we had a surprise drop of the brand spankin' new album by Sigur Rós, who haven't released a studio album since...Kveikur back in 2013?? On Thursday they just popped in on their Instagram feed and say "hey gang, our new album ÁTTA is out tomorrow, have at it" and of course us fans were like WOOOOOO and downloaded/ordered toot sweet.

Meanwhile on that very same day, I'd gotten an email from Smashwords informing me that their annual July sale was coming and if I'd be interested in signing up for it? Of course I always do, considering that I always get new readers out of it, even if I don't make a dime because I offer them for free during those sales. [Side note: It seems that In My Blue World is my best 'seller', and I'm cool with that too.] 

So I start thinking: what if I do a surprise drop of Diwa & Kaffi?

I mean, it's been ready for a couple of years now. The only reason I never released it is because of the pandemic and that I'd been wanting to commission someone to do the cover art but never quite got around to it. It's not doing anyone any good just sitting there on my hard drive, available to no one but myself, yeah?

So this means two things: One, I'm planning -- hoping -- to create my own 'temporary' cover and have it prepped and ready to go by 1 July, which menas...a little less than two weeks. Two, that the book will be formatted and ready for release on the same day. I'm pretty sure I can pull it off, considering I'd completed all revision on the book some months ago, and these two steps I can easily do in the course of a few days before or after work. 

I'm really looking forward to this, and I hope you enjoy it too, because I'm super proud of this particular novel!

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