January is here. The first month of the new year...
Hey...that rhymes!!! That might get me back into rapping, again!!! :-)
But, seriously....
A new administrations has taken over the country. People are back to sleep walking again. The death toll from the COVID-19 coronavirus has risen to damn near half a million people (430,000 at my last checking). There is a vaccine that's out there...two, actually...with maybe two more on the way, waiting for approval from the FDA.
For me, personally...I dropped my latest novel; my thirteenth book overall. January is also the 2-year publishing anniversary of my novel "The Chronicles of The Black Fist: F.U.R.I. of the People" (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2019). This month also marks the 2 year anniversary of my mother's passing. :'-(
It's the start of a new year. It's the beginning of 12 months of whatever you make it. I wanna work on promoting my novels, and continuing to work on m writing career. At the start of this year, and after my follicle cleanse, I decided to shut down the Universal Africana Literary Arts Movement after 13 years. I want to focus solely on my writing career; the pandemic forced me to make some tough choices towards the end of last year. I can't really serve two masters, and something had to give. I chose my writing career, and rightfully so. I loved what I did with "The Movement", but it was very taxing on me, with little help, and almost no real recognition for what I did/was doing. I love my people, I always want to represent for them, but...I gotta do me. Nobody is going to help me with furthering my writing BUT me. People out there can do the same research that I did, to access all that information that I freely provided. But, I digress...
My new novel "Knuckle Up" (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2021) has just been published. I'm really looking forward to continuing to promote it, and hopefully generate some sales. It's been almost a week already since its release, and I've had a few purchases; not as many as I would've liked, but it's something, so far. It's not like people are distracted by having to go to work outside of the house, and compete with people going out to clubs, and bars, and other shit like that. You can't really go anywhere. And yet you still can't support, and buy the book...?!
Anyway....
February is on the horizon. That's my author anniversary month. No big plans, as of yet, but I wanna do something kinda big. Stay tuned for that....
Keep the fist raised.
#AlwaysOnMyLiteraryGrind
