It's LANGUISHING! But sometimes I go and look at the archives to remind myself when stuff happened, since I pretty much had this account before, you know, I'd met my husband or anything. LOL
I moved so far into nowhere that I'm lucky I get crappy "3Meg" (aka 2.2 Meg at 2 AM on a good day) DSL service. Poor Donna lives 5 miles past me and her only remotely "affordable" options are 3G or Hughesnet. Hughesnet is the devil's ISP.
I totally did. LOL I saved our downpayment out of my royalties and I make enough most months to cover the mortgage too. It helps that we got our house in foreclosure right near the bottom of the market slump--we paid just about $100k and even though it had been bought new 2 years before, the people lived in it for about a month. It was freaking pristine!
The weirdest thing? I know that pr0n sells and all, but we make more on our mostly mainstream paranormal romance than we did on our dirty stories. (Though to be fair, we publish our non-erotic stuff with a way bigger epub.) But at the rate kindle sales are exploding, by the end of the year I'll be able to pay my mortgage on those alone, I swear. (And that's even after Donna & I split our money 50/50.)
Epublishing may not be very l33t, but I'm addicted to my monthly checks. I'll be sad if all our pubs ever go to paying quarterly.
Thank you! OMG I missed having hobbies. Of course, "having hobbies" probably translates to incoherent flailing about TV shows, but you know, that totally counts.
See, and that's why I want one! I at least have high speed now, so that would be aaaaawesome and way less expensive than wasting the gas on the hour long trip into the "city" to buy a book. Or even the 15 minute drive into town to the local library (with absolutely no paranormal/scifi selection that's less than 30 years old). Or hell, save the shipping from Amazon. *sigh*
Yeah, it wouldn't take a ton of time for that sort of savings and convenience to add up... especially since the ereaders are down from the $400 range now. I think Nook & Kindle are in the $260 range and there's a nice Sony Pocket Reader that costs about $200.
I'm now spending my time trying to decide if I should get an iPad. LOL
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And hating you a little. *weep*
I moved so far into nowhere that I'm lucky I get crappy "3Meg" (aka 2.2 Meg at 2 AM on a good day) DSL service. Poor Donna lives 5 miles past me and her only remotely "affordable" options are 3G or Hughesnet. Hughesnet is the devil's ISP.
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The weirdest thing? I know that pr0n sells and all, but we make more on our mostly mainstream paranormal romance than we did on our dirty stories. (Though to be fair, we publish our non-erotic stuff with a way bigger epub.) But at the rate kindle sales are exploding, by the end of the year I'll be able to pay my mortgage on those alone, I swear. (And that's even after Donna & I split our money 50/50.)
Epublishing may not be very l33t, but I'm addicted to my monthly checks. I'll be sad if all our pubs ever go to paying quarterly.
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Hey, congratulations! It's terrific you can actually make living doing what you love. Welcome back to free time.
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I'm so addicted to it now. Probably partly because I live in the middle of nowhere. LOL
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I'm now spending my time trying to decide if I should get an iPad. LOL
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