Reanna: To Eat The Fruit Of Wild Strawberries Again.

SL: I still don't like that The Year After is going to be longer than The Murder After. If the first book were fifty two pages, I'd be fine with it.

I know there's more to say this time, but I worry readers won't see it the same way. What if they don't like that the first story is a chapbook while the second is a novella?

Or maybe, a potential reader will find The Year After on Amazon and want to know what happened first. Maybe they won't care that the first book is short.

Maybe I should worry once we gain readership.

SL: I've thought about putting The Muder After and The Year After as one book because of how short the first one is. Except they're different genres. One is a mystery/dramadey, and the other is a romantic dramadey. So, I don't think it would have worked.

But I might have a solution: make The Year After a second volume instead of a proper sequel. It makes it a continuation of the story without combining anything. I just need to start from chapter eight. That won't be hard because all it requires is changing the chapter names. (I write a chapter twice then type. That's how Reanna and the other headmates treated Carnival.)

Buying but not Reading

You don't have to read our books to buy them. There are other things you can do with our books.

You can give them as a gift.

You can donate them to a library.

You can donate them to a book drive.

You can use them in a Book Exchange.

Link to the profile of Carnival Link to the profile of The Murder After

SL: Wouldn't it be funny if The Year After were 88 pages, double the first volume's page count? I'm already making it fourteen chapters, double the first volume's chapter count.

SL: Over the weekend, I tried turning our print books into ebooks, but the KPF file wouldn't process. I thought a print replica would be the best way to preserve our fonts.

How can I do that if the file won't process?

Happy new year from Mint Phalanx!

F.M.: I told Reanna our midterm for recreation class was due on the 15th, which is the 14th at 11:59 PM in Arizona. (We live in Colorado.) It was actually due on the 13th. Now, it's my job to finish the assignment. At least we weren't kicked out.

Update: We did it! Now, we can feel stupid for thinking it was due today!

Mint Phalanx: People still waiting in line to vote, please stay. Polling stations cannot turn you away if you do.

People who already voted, be patient. We may not know until Thursday or longer.

We're all stressed out, so tomorrow, F.M. will go outside and hop in the snow after classes. (He's been wanting to do this for awhile now. ) You& should find a way to reduce stress too, so you can feel better during and after this Election Day.

Reanna: What do writers have to do to get some attention around here!? We'd like people to buy our books and give them a chance.

Do we need to parade our minority status?

We're bigender!

We're Mexicain-American!

We're plural!

Do we need to share our discourse opinions?

Like we're gonna do that.

We don't want discourse.

That's not why we're here.

In our pinned post, we have a link to a master post listing the books we self-published. But no one seems interested in them. What are we doing wrong!?

Reasons to Buy The Murder After

You like mystery and dramadey.

You want to give these genres a try.

You want a short book that doesn't take long to read. (It's 44 pages. One chapter a day plus the sneak peek is eight days.)

You want a mystery but don't want to solve it.

You want to read an attempt at narrating in the British dialect.

Link to its page on Amazon (Note: We would give this book an MPA rating of PG-13.)