The birthday was a relaxing day. It's still hitting me that I'm now 48 years old. Latino Heritage Month has 'officially' come to an end, wrapping up on October 15th. Of course, you should ALWAYS celebrate your heritage and culture everyday, 365 days a year, every year. The month is now coming to an end, and we are now looking forward to the last TWO months of the year.
As the Halloween season approaches, I look forward to celebrating the birth of my oldest nephew. I remember when he was born; now he's a grown man in his 20s. I'm very proud of him, and the man that he's become. **shedding a thug tear** 😁😁😁😁
Also for the Halloween season, I usually like to promote my superhero novel "The Chronicles of The Black Fist" (CreateSpace, 2015), and now, the sequel as well, "The Chronicles of The Black Fist: F.U.R.I. of the People" (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2019). I would love to have an artist render their rendition of my character, and some of the other supporting characters in the series. I would also love to have someone cosplay the characters, whether at a book signing event, or at a comic con. I kinda wish that I knew something about 3D printing, because I would print out action figures to sell at any public appearances that I'd do. It would also be great as a marketing strategy for that project.
There's one week left in the month. I'll soon be promoting my Holiday Economic Support Initiative, starting next month. I don't know if I'll continue to do it, though; it doesn't seem to be very effective. I've been doing the initiative for the last 6-7 years. I love trying to help promote black-owned & Latino-owned businesses and entrepreneurs, but I don't feel as if my initiative has been helping. Even with my own retweets, and with me explaining what the initiative is about...it doesn't seem to be working, or helping any indie small businesses. 😟😟😟😞😞😞
Haven't done much writing. Scratch that...I haven't done any writing lately. I guess I've just been a bit bummed out by the poor sales for my recent book "Second Chance Points" (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2022); for all of my books, really. It kinda sucks, but...what can I really do? Oh...I've had a few ideas rolling around in my head, but I haven't really felt like turning on the laptop, and busting out some pages, or even finishing those w.i.p.'s that I'm trying to get done. The most that I've done, is to sign up for Draft2Digital's P.O.D. print arm, D2D Print. Since everyone thinks that Amazon is the 'evil empire' of the book industry, I might need a different publisher for the paperback version of my future books.
That's all for now. Looking forward to talking to you next month.
Keep the fist raised.
#AlwaysOnMyLiteraryGrind
