Friday Done List

 Over all, a good week.

Goal 1. Adult Short Stories, Essays, and Humor

• Started two new pieces! One is humor, the other is about yogurt.
• Registered for a Zoom workshop I knew I couldn't attend, and watched the recording today. This may become a blog post.

Goal 2. Submit 143 Canterbury Road To Agents

• I saw on Xitter that an agent who had rejected two of my books was opening again for submissions. So I submitted a third book to her so she could reject it. I don't believe I've ever submitted my children's manuscripts to her, and I see that she represents that, too, so I might submit those sometime in the future for an entire set of rejections. Even though I had all kinds of material ready to go for this submission, because I've submitted it elsewhere, customizing emails and filling in submission forms take time that could have been used for Goal 1. At some point, I have to come to terms with that. Book submissions are very definitely a low priority now. If short form work takes off for me some time in the future, I may just treat book submissions as a waste of time and stop them.

Goal 3. Community Building/Marketing/Branding

• Attended a group book signing last weekend.
• Did a blog post about the group signing.
• Promoted the above blog post with a Facebook group. And elsewhere.
• Updated my website with my two latest publications. 
• Did a number of blog posts this week. 
• Promoted a couple of this week's blog posts. Still have to promote yesterday's.

Goal 4. 19th Century Novel, which is totally just for fun

• About all I do on this is read nineteenth century history and pile up links to articles. For the workshop I watched today, I used the prompts I was sent to write from the point of view of the main character. So I now have some new material for that.