Turns Out I’m a Moron

An author hopes to eventually connect with readers, but it wasn’t happening. Nada. I thought, “Maybe it takes longer?”

Aargh! I just found out that all the emails sent to me were routed to a secret webmail account I didn’t know existed, instead of the email at the bottom of the newsletter. Over 500 emails, ignored! Mea culpa!

So, of course, I decided to go through them—what if a reader actually wrote to me?  Most of them were spam, including a lot of porn, so I decided to set some filters to weed out the obvious ones while still getting any real messages. POOF!!! All of them, gone. Simply gone. No “undo” option, nothing in the spam or trash folder. Just evaporated. And so far, no response from my site hosting company so I can try to fix it.

So if any actually humans DID try to contact me, instead of porn bots, please accept my sincere, mortified apologies! If you do want to reach me, use the outlook email at the bottom of the page, or the “contact me” box on the website. I’d love to hear from you!

Guess What? Finders, Keepers is available as an audiobook!

I’m excited to announce that Finders, Keepers is now available as an audiobook! I’m thrilled it can be enjoyed by people on the go, or who have visual impairment. I wanted to avoid the LOOOOOONG SLOOOOOOW readings or hammy over-acting that make me want to stab my ears out in some of the books I’ve listened to, and I’m pleased that narrator Serafina Dare nailed it. I’ll post links on the website soon but there are forty-two platforms selected, so it’ll be pretty much everywhere, though some might take time to go “live.”

Did you know it takes, on average, 6.2 hours of work behind the scenes for every finished hour of audio? The process is fascinating so I’ll do some posts on that later.

It is available through libraries, too! If you can’t get it online yourself, tell your librarian it’s available through Overdrive, Hoopla, and Bibliotheca. Tell them you wantssssss it! And, as always, leaving reviews or telling your family and friends about it is greatly appreciated! I have a limited number of codes for free copies, intended for folks who’d like to review it; please let me know if you’re interested.

Helios will be coming to your earbuds soon!