Project planning

My week kicked off with another kind of project which meant a brief
survey and a trip to B&Q (our major, D-I-Y outlet in UK). We are planning
to change our kitchen round a bit and will have an electric cooker & hob
installed in place of our gas cooker. But because we have no dedicated circuit
for an electric cooker, yours truly has to put one in. It isn’t beyond my
technical capability, but physically I’m getting too old for what we often
referred to “house bashing” in the trade. B&Q couldn’t provide the right
materials, so I bought them from an electrical supplier. I’m halfway through
the installation, too old or not.

Monday evening was the night of our monthly CHINDI group meeting. We
managed to get through a great deal of planning, with quite a schedule leading
up to Christmas. I enjoy being part of this proactive group, even if it means
getting involved in a ‘hands-on’ way and bringing stuff to the table. We are
preparing for a charity event where we raise money for the charity,
“Words4Wounded”. I don’t have much involvement in that other than to turn up,
bring friends with money and my books.

We are also planning ahead for our ‘One Big Launch’. This will be a
book launch by eight of us in the group, bringing our latest, self-published
titles along. There will be a lot of time and effort invested in this, and
although we are only at the early planning stage, there is already a growing list
of things to do, including my own tasks.

On the home front, apart from crawling around beneath our Park Home
getting covered in cobwebs and banging my head, I have made real progress with
my book jacket. I have to admit though that I was going nowhere until our son,
Terry, got involved. Having designed all my paperback jackets he had decided to
leave this one to me. But when he realised I was struggling, he came up with
the goods. I am in the process of uploading the files to CreateSpace. I’m
holding back on the cover file for a day or so, just in case I want to make one
or two tweaks. Next week should see the finished article.

Another surprise during the week: I received an e-mail from the Legal
Deposit Libraries asking for five copies of The Devil’s Trinity. This is
something that is required by law and I have an obligation as the registered
publisher of the book to send them. I also have to send one to The British
Library. This will be a requirement for all the titles I self-publish with a
Nielsen registered ISBN number. Such is life in the book world.

So next week, hopefully, I will be able to knuckle down and crack on
with my WIP. This is something I promised myself (at the beginning of this
year), I would have completed by June. But other things just got in the way.
Wish me luck!