Oh well… I was spoiled in the first day.

1 sale today, just in the nick of time.

Don’t worry, I won’t update the daily sales every day.  But I will for the first few…

I think today’s sale was from my co-author, Daniel…  That’s my theory…

By the way, will watching your facebook friends total go up by yet another one give you an ever-so-fleeting burst of joy?  Then ask Whatley Tupper to be your friend.  He’ll befriend anyone.  He works alone at night, after all.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Whatley-Tupper/100001538558776?ref=search

The Adventures of Whatley Tupper was written between two people over the years on a total of 5 different computers in various versions of Word, and all those changes led to problems with formatting. I thought I had it all figured out, but then noticed that my live version has large sections in bold. Not the biggest deal, so now I have to figure out why.

Converting to DTP would be a breeze is the entire manuscript was written in the same version of word with all the same settings. Tab changes have been annoying. But, in a week or so I hope to have a new cover, and I’ll update a new version at the same time, without that accursed bold. I’ll also be curious to see if a new cover makes any difference at all.

The Adventures of Whatley Tupper: A Choose Your Own…

Well, it’s live, and available (for anyone who can actually find it) to purchase.

“The Adventures of Whatley Tupper” began as an experiment between my old friend, Daniel Pitts, and I back in 2003. I was young and had a little bit more hair then. Those were the days.

What was the experiment? We would try writing a choose your own adventure book for adults. One of us would write a section, give a few choices, then email it to the other. In this fashion, we emailed back and forth, neither of us having any idea where it was going, for three, four years. The only solid ideas we had at the beginning were that it would be about a janitor at a university, and… I think that’s it. We also had a rule that we couldn’t continue our own sections, at least not at first.

It was, without a doubt, the most enjoyable writing experience I’ve ever had. My goal was simply to make Daniel laugh, and his was the same. There is something liberating about writing something without pretension, without planning.

I’ll write more about this in later posts. And I’ll update how things go with publishing with Kindle books. I’ll even be honest with how many books I sell.

As of now (day 1): 5 books.  2 by friends and family, 3 mystery purchases (probably my wife not telling me it’s her)