{"id":5327,"date":"2011-12-07T12:16:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T20:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/?p=5327"},"modified":"2011-12-07T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T20:16:42","slug":"desperate-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/desperate-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Desperate in December"},"content":{"rendered":"

December is always a crazy month for me. I never seem to expect the busy-ness that the holidays bring around. I’m ahead of the game this year, thanks to Cyber Monday, but the next few weeks will be hectic regardless. I usually shut down the blog in December, but this year I have a mid-December release, so it wouldn’t make sense to take a blogiday. If you’ve been reading my posts at all lately, you’ll know that WHERE SHE BELONGS<\/a>, my 2007 Golden Heart finalist manuscript for Long Contemporary, is releasing December 16th from Five Star\/Cengage.<\/p>\n

Okay, December 16th isn’t really the release date, in that the book won’t be in libraries and stores ON December 16th. That’s actually the shipping date, when pre-orders from Amazon<\/a>, Barnes and Noble<\/a> and Canadian Amazon<\/a> will likely go out, and when my publisher will mail my RITA<\/a>\u00a0copies. The\u00a0RITA contest deadline has been moved up to December 30th, because January 1st falls on a weekend. So cross your fingers that my copies arrive in time! My publisher is working with me to get them out of the warehouse STAT on December 16th. It’ll be nail-biting time around here after Christmas, until I know the copies have been received at the RWA offices.<\/p>\n

So, my “shipping date” is what I’m celebrating as my “release date.” And I have laser eye surgery scheduled for that date. Yes, I am finally getting my eyes lasered! I go in for my consultation tomorrow, and during the consult I’ll find out which surgery my eyes qualify for, PRK<\/a>, which my son had last year and has a 4-7 day downtime. or SBK<\/a>, a fancier version of LASIK which uses a laser to create the flap instead of a cut, and which has a downtime of 24-48 hours. It’s more expensive, but that downtime is super appealing.<\/p>\n

When I booked the surgery, it had completely escaped my mind that December 16th is my book’s release date. So I won’t be able to promote my book ON the release date, but what can you do? I’ve decided the best way around this is to pre-schedule posts to appear on my blog (and therefore on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, Goodreads<\/a>, and my Amazon Author page<\/a>) on December 16th and thereafter. The plan is to post scene snippets on the blog, you know, to entice folks to buy my book!<\/p>\n

That’s the plan<\/em>. We’ll see how the execution goes. Because I’ve been super busy helping to execute two other major life events that have sucked away all my writing time, and I must wrap them up before the surgery, plus get out my Christmas cards, etc (I skipped last year, so I really want to do this year).<\/p>\n

And then there’s the shopping! I still have a lot to do.<\/p>\n

How’s your December shaping up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December is always a crazy month for me. I never seem to expect the busy-ness that the holidays bring around. I’m ahead of the game this year, thanks to Cyber Monday, but the next few weeks will be hectic regardless. I usually shut down the blog in December, but this year I have a mid-December… Continue reading Desperate in December<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,30,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-books","category-publishing-journeys","category-the-non-writing-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5327"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5338,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5327\/revisions\/5338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cindyprocter-king.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}