Progress Report: Week 4 February 2013

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So, this week started out a little bit slower than I’d hoped, but that’s usually the way when you’re tidying up the loose ends of several tasks. Progress comes in many forms, and I’m starting to find that the writing is the easy part… but if you want to make a living off your writing, it has to be available for people to buy. Decisions, decisions…

Tier 2 Goals


  • Transcribed ChapBook15A—Dear Tiger from paper to computer. It gave me goosebumps… again. At just over 4,000 words, it’s now, or soon to be, available on Kobo, Kindle, Smashwords, iTunes, Nook and DriveThruFiction.
  • Transcribed ChapBook14—Legacy of Dreams from paper to computer. At just over 6,000 words, it’s now, or soon to be, available on Kobo, Kindle, Smashwords, iTunes, Nook and DriveThruFiction.

Backburner Goals


  • ShortStory31—A Battle of Minds: revised, edited, formatted, covered and released.
  • ShortStory30: revised, edited and formatted.
  • ShortStory32: revised, edited and formatted.
  • ShortStory33: revised, edited and formatted.
  • Non-illustrated versions of the following chapter books went live this week. The illustrated versions are still coming—and may be for some time:
    • ChapBook2—All Alone (illustrated)
    • ChapBook14—Legacy of Dreams (non-illustrated)
    • ChapBook15A—DearTiger (non-illustrated)

Publishing Tasks

The following publishing tasks were completed this week:

  • 10 blog entries completed for this blog
  • 8 blog entries completed for the C.M. Simpson Publishing blog.

  • Formatted and uploaded Carlie Simonsen’s All Alone to Smashwords
  • Formatted Carlie Simonsen’s All Alone to Kobo
  • Formatted and uploaded Carlie Simonsen’s All Alone to Kindle
  • Formatted and uploaded Carlie Simonsen’s All Alone to CreateSpace
  • Created cover for Carlie Simonsen’s Dear Tiger on behalf of C.M. Simpson Publishing
  • Formatted and uploaded Carlie Simonsen’s Dear Tiger to Smashwords
  • Formatted Carlie Simonsen’s Dear Tiger to Kobo
  • Formatted and uploaded Carlie Simonsen’s Dear Tiger to Kindle
  • Formatted and uploaded Carlie Simonsen’s Dear Tiger to CreateSpace

  • Created cover for Carlie Simonsen’s Legacy of Dreams on behalf of C.M. Simpson Publishing
  • Formatted and uploaded Carlie Simonsen’s Legacy of Dreams to Smashwords
  • Formatted Carlie Simonsen’s Legacy of Dreams to Kobo
  • Formatted and uploaded Carlie Simonsen’s Legacy of Dreams to Kindle
  • Formatted and uploaded Carlie Simonsen’s Legacy of Dreams to CreateSpace

  • Created cover for C.M. Simpson’s A Battle of Minds on behalf of C.M. Simpson Publishing
  • Formatted and uploaded C.M. Simpson’s A Battle of Minds to Smashwords
  • Formatted C.M. Simpson’s A Battle of Minds to Kobo
  • Formatted and uploaded C.M. Simpson’s A Battle of Minds to Kindle
  • Formatted and uploaded C.M. Simpson’s A Battle of Minds to CreateSpace
  • Updated LinkedIn with All Alone, Dear Tiger, Legacy of Dreams and A Battle of Minds.
  • Updated the new covers to Pinterest.

Craft Development

  • Enrolled in the free on-line writer’s convention, IndieRecon

New Arrivals

A little slow this week for the new ideas; I’ve not been getting enough sleep. So, I let myself sleep in for one day, and this is what resulted:
  • Chapbook18—a mystery involving a cross-dressing man to be written by Carlie Simonsen.
  • CrimeNovel6—another mystery involving a cross-dressing man to be written by one of my pen names.
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