Hopefully This Won’t Bring About The Apocalypse…

… but just in case, be prepared. For anything. Gather provisions, map out escape routes, make sure the water heater’s strapped down, inventory your valuables.

I actually started writing Christ – Soul – Rock & Roll tonight.

Loaded the interview with Rick Conklin of Aslan (now BrokenWorks) into the media player, switched it on, and started writing. Made good progress, too.

Remember the line from “Chariots Of Fire” when Eric Liddell says “when I run I feel His pleasure?” Same sensation came over me as I was working on the chapter. Honest. And what a sweet sensation it was!

In other book news, there’s at least temporarily a version of God’s Not Dead (And Neither Are We) with its alternate, or new, title First And Forgotten now available at my CafePress shop. I haven’t received a first copy yet, so I’m not certain if everything is up to snuff margin-wise and all that. However, it should be easier to read due to more space between the lines of text. It’s a couple dollars more than God’s Not Dead (And Neither Are We), but that can’t be helped as I have no say in the base price of anything created by and sold through CafePress.

I may have to remove God’s Not Dead (And Neither Are We) from its current publisher, as it is merging into Amazon’s print on demand service and I don’t believe it will make the book available for purchase through any other channel than Amazon. Being on Amazon is nice, but it being the only channel wasn’t the case when I went with the current publisher. That said, I don’t believe it ever came through on its promise to make sure the book would be available for ordering by anyone who went into a Barnes and Noble or Borders or variation thereof looking for it. None of this affects the Kindle version of the book, which is now available.

I’m not altogether sure what the next step will be. If I remove it from the current publisher and go to a different self-publisher, it’s going to be more than a few hundred dollars out of pocket at a time when money is more than tight. Selling it through CafePress is much less expensive to me — no set-up fees — but it means the book is only available through CafePress unless I can swing some deals with retailers to carry it by my buying it at bulk from CafePress, thus getting a price break, and reselling it to the retailers at a slight markup so they can in turn sell it at a profit. Which I will be working on, but very few retailers are willing to deal with individuals on such a basis. So we’ll see what happens. As always, prayers are greatly appreciated!

The work continues.