And this is why we all bitcoin!
Cause for us the price has gone from almost a whole bitcoin! To now where it would only be about 8842 sats!! That's a huge decrease in price 😎🤣
Yep, and now PGNE shuts down the power grid whenever there's heavy winds, instead of clearing the brush 🙄
Then they're taxing peoples personal well, and banned the building of new fire places, INSIDE houses!? They're literally trying to kill people.
Is there a place called The East Coast on the west coast?
I just heard a video of a guy saying that the LA mayor cut 17.6 million from the firefighters, plus CA decided a few years ago was it's cheaper to not cut down the brush, and wait until after a fire and get FEMA funding to clean up the mess.
They keep electing shitty politicians, and they get the results they ask for.
It's sad to the people who didn't elect those politicians, and it's so sad about the historically significant buildings that are getting destroyed!
Listening to Craig from Craigslist describing how he started everything.
It started as an email list, and then after some years, "I remembered that I'm a programmer, so I can make the emails into websites" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I thought public bathrooms with the little nob to press in was bad enough, as they're not very trustworthy, but recently I've started seeing digital ones... so I'm supposed to trust that the lock button is accurate! 😳
I didn't see a DM yet... sometimes I think the relays might meddle with DMs so they never show up to the other person...
Are your family the kind of people who would normally enjoy the kind of stories your first novel is about? And do they like reading? Sometimes our family are the hardest to get to read our stuff.
I've started to figure our who my ideal audience is, so if I somehow get their attention so they know my books exist, it's more likely one of them will buy it.
I'm still trying to figure out how to do that though 😅
If someone influential gets a hold of a book they really like, and share it, that's one way to get way more sales, but it can be hard to get something over to such a person so that they actually read it.
One thing I've learned though, is that if it's out there, it's way more likely that someone will find it and it will take off, even if it takes years.
So that's part of why we're just gonna keep writing and each book will be better as we grow, and eventually we'll write something people like, and then the rest of the books can take off too, if someone likes our style and sees that there are other books by the same author. I've done that myself, if I liked someone's style.
My 1st novel took 5 months to write, edit and publish, but I'd thought of the story for 7 years before that. My 2md novel took about 2 years, as I didn't like the main character and swapped her out completely and rewrote a bunch of the story to better suit her maturity level (the first one was pathetic and thus her counter parties were kinda pathetic too 😅)
Writing is hard and getting recognition really helps with the process to keep going, but it's still better to keep going as long as there are more stories to tell.
I'm having a hard time getting started on the 2nd book in my series, because I'm not sure how to organize it yet. I know the main antagonist in all 9 books, but I don't know the early ones as well as the later ones (they keep getting worse) so I have decisions to make, but I'd prefer to write something easier, so now I kind of have 3-4 projects going and maybe something more soon, but sometimes it helps me to work on something else because when I go back to the original book, it had sunk in more and I've worked out some details I didn't even realize I'd been working on during the break.
I hope some of this helps! I love sharing my thoughts on things I've picked up on or learned... hence why clearly I'm an author, if you couldn't tell my the small book I just wrote 🤣
Well I would, but I don't wanna get on the Swedish tax system for it, and it's so expensive to move it to the US so I'll probably just end up getting groceries or something for it 🤣
I do gotta live too, even if I'd prefer to put everything in BTC and not spend anything.
What is this hunger-thing that is interfering with my BTC purchases!??! 🤣🤣🤣
Well done! I've published 2 novels, 2 planners, and one translation of my first novel. I've sold a total of 19 copies from when I first published at the end of August 2022.
My husband is also an author and he's sold way more, like over 200.
He tried Fb ads for a bit and got a few more sales on one book, and then put the link to his books on Amazon when he did food delivery in Flagstaff and got multiple sales seemingly from that.
We've concluded that we're authors no matter what, and when someone does come across our books, if there are lots of options, it's way more likely that they'll see one they're willing to buy. So I'd say keep writing!!
I'm in a fb group for writers where one guy just shared how he sold 5500 books in 2024, but he went to trade shows for part of it. Not book shows because the competition is too high.
I'd like to order some and sell in person but I haven't gotten around to that yet.
I only just for my green card so I felt a bit weird not quite knowing their rules for how they count "working". But now I'm all clear on that front.
If anything, I'm a ReplyLady, 😎🤣
I'm not 100% sure, cause I block all the ones I see, but I think I might be using too make emojis to be a ReplyGirl... maybe? 🤔
I got 500 sek yesterday, it's about $45.
Today I got 500 sats, that's about $0.5.
I felt kind of sad at the sek cause it's not even $50 so I can't do much with it.
I felt super excited and hope filled at the 500sats, because I know that is REAL money, it's not withering away while I look at it, it's actually growing!
It's like looking at a baby tree plant that just broke through the surface, vs an old tree that's got dead branches and will die at any moment 🤣
Well, if I were to ever drink a latte, that is any kind of coffee drink, I'm pretty sure my husband would post that and tag me as proof of it having happened, as I don't like coffee 🤣 and if I posted a pic of an expensive meal, it would probably be to make fun of it. 😎
No, I self publish and do all the editing, cover design, and all of it myself. My husband helped s bit but I more so help him go from Kindle cover to Paperback and Hardback. How come you're wondering?
Don't worry, I won't. I mean, I do have an old YouTube channel where I did some baking, so I suppose I could post that, but I'm not an instagram girl either, or valley girl or whatever they call those "let's take a selfie" kinda girls. 🤣
I did post a pic of the Costco hotdogs first time I had one as it was the size of my husbands forearm, but that was a measurement thing, not a food thing 🤣
This is me... and my husband!
I know they make deep fakes now, but I don't think the ReplyGirls have gotten that sophisticated yet...
Is this proof enough? I can also link my books on Amazon 😜 haha
https://youtube.com/@annsofiandlevijohnson?si=Z1AdKg9P6J_v1Lo9
So these annoying ReplyGirls are now making people so suspicious they think I might be one. I am not, I am a real human, I promise!!! 😳🤣🤣🤣
Maybe I'll add a tag on my picture "real human" 😅
I'm glad that at least most of them say they're Reply Girls in their profiles. So far all the ones I've checked have been 100% ReplyGirls and I've blocked them all!!
I accept your apology! 🙂
Yes, they're super annoying and I'm pretty sure there's a special place for whoever created the ReplyGirls right next to the Indian Scam center people who steal 1000s from innocent trusting mostly old people!
I however will be staying far away from that place. 😇
Did you just block me and claim I'm spam? I'm 100% real. I guess you didn't like my comments, I thought it was funny. Or maybe those super annoying ReplyGirls are messing with people making them think I'm one of them.
Keep your immune system healthy, buy more #bitcoin. Every other currency will try to take you down 🤓🤣