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japanesedoramaandanimelover91 · 5 months

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16 october:

Good morning everyone.

Thank you for watching #ONEDAY Episode 2: 🙇‍♂️The timeline for episode 2 is 1 hour 7 minutes 🙈.

17th october:

Sorry for the inconvenience: 🙇‍♂️

A triumphant return to our first solo performance space. I'm back 🙈.

I can't believe you guys welcomed me like this😭.Thank you Nagoya🙈.

I'm home!

Tell me what it's all about.My mum has the same birthday as you 🙈.

18th october:

Good morning everyone!

Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.Thank you all 😭

19th and 20th october:

Good morning everyone!

21 october:Good morning everyone!

Why not?That's a thing, isn't it?What's the scene?I danced today... #ONEDAY

22th october:

Good morning everyone.

23th october:

Good morning everyone!

So today's #ONEDAY is1 hour and 4 minute timeline, apparently. Episode 3. We hope you enjoy it: 🙇‍♂️

24th october:

Good morning everyone!

25 october:

Good morning everyone!

Mi, mi, mi, everyone...! Thank you very much. 🙇‍♂️ All the really warm words are sinking in.

Woke up in the morning, worked first thing, checked emails for enquiries.It's a new and fresh movement.

26th october:

Good morning, everyone!

Nino-san recording finished. After all, it's fun to get together with everyone, isn't it?

27th october:

I'm done-i'm going home.

I was kind of embarrassed because i felt like i sent that post earlier probably once in my life to my mum. I'm back lol.

28th october:

Good morning, everyone!

Hey everyone! Good morning: ！！！！

I didn't say hello today...Sorry. 🙇‍♂️

29th october:

Good morning, everyone!

When I went out on the street, there were lots of people dressed up!It's Halloween. It's getting colder, so take care of yourselves💪.

I mean, how would I make a website for my future work? I wondered,My sister said, "I can make a simple one. My sister said, "I can make a simple website", so we decided to make one together.

Wow! Thank you! Thank you! I'm so happy😭Oh, no. Nothing but gratitude. #Default2MillionMan.

We've probably only had about 7,000 more people today alone. 🙇‍♂️Thank you so much! And I changed my profile, though, ididn't want to cause any trouble for 00pon, so i made it this way. So far 🙈.

30 th october:

Good morning, everyone!

Today's #ONEDAY Episode 4 time line is apparently 2 hours and 2 minutes. I just realised that about 12.5 hours have already passed. Maybe today is effectively the turnaround...?Enjoy: 🙇‍♂️

31th october:

"Analogue" event ends.Venue.[Congratulations to the default 2 million man...]And. I'll be waiting for your website!and [I'm waiting for your website! Thank you 🙇‍♂️ (Of course we received your support too. Thank you 😊)

1st november:

Good morning, everyone!(2 times.)

2nd november:

Good morning, everyone!

I took a wrong turn and got lost for a moment. I managed to get to the site five minutes before (even though it wasn't a particularly unusual place). So I'll do my best again today. 🙇‍♂️

3rd november:

Good morning, everyone!

Thank you for all the celebrations 😊. It's been 24 years since your debut 🙈.

4th november:

Good morning, everyone!

Hey guys! Thank you so much 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

Is this real?@MJ_Perspective

Thank you all: 🙇‍♂️ Looking at the rips, it seems to be real!Exhibition, they're going to do it: 🙇‍♂️#MJinitsentirety

5th november:

Good morning, everyone!

6th november: Good morning, everyone!

Today's #ONEDAY episode 5 has a time slot of 1 hour 4 minutes. So almost to the point where it's almost as long as the broadcast slot (not that it matters lol). We were filming today to rave reviews: 🙇‍♂️ Please watch it at 9pm: 🙇‍♂️

7th november:

Good morning, everyone!

Report. Ninomiya, we have created a company 🙈. We are also steadily working on our website. We will do our best. 🙇‍♂️

8th and 9th november:

Good morning, everyone!

10th november:

Good morning, everyone!

Today's filming required quite a lot of people and the extras lent us a lot of help. The filming ended without incident, thanks to a lot of help from our side! Thanks to everyone who participated. 🙇‍♂️

11th november:

Good norning, everyone!(2 times).

Oh, by the way, just now. Good morning! Good morning! So i turned around and it was you.

I should have had my photo taken...

Thank you for your hard work. Today's drama shoot is over lol.

12th november:

Good morning, everyone!

You don't mean... what i said at ......! No, this is a sign of your further growth, Uno...! In any case, congratulations ㊗️

13th november:

Good morning, everyone!

Ah, what a lovely day. My friends on the big stage on New Year's Eve...Sing a miracle in the small wide world. Let's all get bumped up: 🙇‍♂️#Ohmochiri-Ryo-chanShukui.

Today's #ONEDAY episode 6 timeline is 56 minutes. It's real time now. Enjoy: 🙇‍♂️

14th november:

Good morning, everyone!

I thought it was nostalgic, so i went through my folders and found that i had one too: 🎞️ They were all really cute lol. Let's shoot again🙆(Repost of tweet)

15th november:

Good morning, everyone!

Today all the parking spaces near the work place were full. I had no choice but to park at a distance, i parked in a remote place and walked slowly. I met a nice alley(excuse)and was 10 minutes late.(Sorry about that.)

Sorry about the typo.

So i asked Nakamaru to take a picture.

16th november:

Good morning, everyone!

On the way to the convenience store just now. I was on my way to the convenience store when i heard the words "Oh, i've just seen the "Analogue."I was told in such a normal way that i thought i should be more excited because it was the real thing. 🙇‍♂️

I'm Ninomiya, and i've shot the arthouse photos(artist photos) today 📷. I'll do my best to tell you about it soon 🙈.

Can i have the header and icons accordingly with today's arthouse photo? Can i just use a picture of nothing? I know you guys can't say anything about it because you haven't seen ...... yet lol. I'd like to try this feature for a bit, so let me do it lol.

17th november:

Good morning, everyone!

First survey.As of now, more than 443,000 people have participated. Thank you so much for your participation! But the results have stayed at this percentage since about an hour after we started. I'm surprised that the percentage hasn't changed. We've taken everyone's feelings into account...

At any rate, thank you for your first survey. That's why I'm going to leave the little niño here.

18th and 19th november:

Good morning, everyone!

20th november:

Good morning, everyone!

Today's #ONEDAY Episode 7 timeline is. 1 hour 17 minutes. Also, it looks like episode 0 will be on TVer. Enjoy: 🙇‍♂️

Mizuki... mizuki... mizuki...

21th and 22th november:

Good morning, everyone!

23th november:

Good morning, everyone!

Every year (probably almost...) i choose to spend Labor Thanksgiving Day in the strong style of being thankful while working. I would like to thank all the people who rested on the same strong style as me, and i would like to thank all of you for your hard work!🙇‍♂️

24th november:

Good morning, everyone!

25th november:

Good morning, everyone!

I'd say, but I'd like to sleep some more.

26th november:

Good morning, everyone!

Congratulations: ❤️#Themanwhocelebratedtheworldsslowest

#Ninomiya Kazunari #Arashi #Ninomiya Kazunari Twitter

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banquetoct · 6 months

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picksblog285 · 3 years

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Clippings

Miami (Florida), 8 results8

Coconut Grove (Miami, Fla.) -- History, 4 results4

Coral Gables (Fla.) -- History, 3 results3

Miami Beach (Fla.), 3 results3

Florida -- History -- 20th century, 3 results3

Haiti, 2 results2

Miami-Dade County (Fla.) -- History, 2 results2

Latin America -- History -- 19th century, 2 results2

Miami (Florida) -- History -- 20th century, 2 results2

Miami-Dade, 1 results1

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Poetry, 7 results7

Theater -- Production and direction -- United States -- History -- 20th century, 3 results3

Cuban Americans -- Florida -- Miami, 3 results3

Poets, American -- 20th century, 2 results2

Cuban Americans, 2 results2

Cubans -- United States, 2 results2

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clipping. at Worldcon 2017, Helsinki, before the 2017 Hugo Awards

Background informationOriginLos Angeles, California, United States(1)Genres

Experimental hip hop(2)

industrial hip hop(3)

noise rap(4)

Years active2009(5)–presentLabelsAssociated acts

Rale

True Neutral Crew

Websitewww.itsclippingbitch.comMembers

William Hutson

Clipping (stylized as clipping.) is an American experimental hip hop group from Los Angeles, California. The group consists of rapper Daveed Diggs and producers William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes.(4)

History(edit)

Diggs and Hutson met in grade school, and Hutson and Snipes were college roommates.(6) The group began in 2009 as a remix project, with Hutson and Snipes taking a cappellas of mainstream rap artists and making power electronics and noise remixes of them to amuse themselves. Diggs joined in 2010 and began to write his own raps over their compositions.(5) They self-released their first album, midcity, on their website on February 5, 2013.(7) Though their expectations were low, and despite minimal promotion, the album was well-received, and five months later, they signed to Sub Pop. Their second album, CLPPNG, was released on June 10, 2014.(5)

The group does not see their abrasive sound as a rejection of mainstream hip hop or reaction against it, but as part of a hip hop tradition, including the likes of Dr. Dre and Public Enemy producers The Bomb Squad, who experimented with production and also used harsh, musique concrète-esque techniques in their music. Similarly, they think of themselves as a rap group rather than industrial-rap, noise-rap, or other mash-up genres.(5)

On June 14, 2016, they released an EP, Wriggle.(8) They then released their second studio album, Splendor & Misery, later on September 9.(9) A science fiction concept album, Splendor & Misery was nominated for the 2017 Hugo Awards in the category of 'Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)' on April 4, 2017.(10)

In 2017, the group released a single, 'The Deep'. The song was nominated for a Hugo Award in 2018, their second consecutive nomination in the 'Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form)' category.(11)

On September 28, 2018, the group's song 'Stab Him in the Throat' was released as part of The Rick and Morty Soundtrack. This album was released by Sub Pop and Adult Swim and featured songs from episodes of Rick and Morty.

On August 14, 2019, the group released a lyric video to YouTube for a new song titled 'Nothing Is Safe', which borrowed heavily from the aesthetics of 1970s and '80s horror films like Halloween and the soundtrack works of John Carpenter. This was coupled with the announcement that their third full-length record, There Existed an Addiction to Blood, would be released on October 18 of the same year.(12)

On September 12, 2019, a second lyric video was released to YouTube to promote There Existed an Addiction to Blood. The track, titled 'La Mala Ordina' featured guest appearances from rappers Elcamino and Benny the Butcher, with additional production from noise artist The Rita.(13)

On October 3, 2019, a music video for the track 'Blood of the Fang' was released to YouTube to promote There Existed an Addiction to Blood.

On November 29, 2019, the band released a three-song EP further exploring the world of 'The Deep'. The EP was also further developed into a novel of the same name by writer Rivers Solomon; the members of clipping. are listed as co-authors. The Deep won the Lambda Literary Award for science fiction, and was nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards.

On June 19, 2020, they released the track 'Chapter 319' on Bandcamp, along with a previously SoundCloud-only track 'Knees on the Ground', with all proceeds from the sales donated to organizations dedicated to racial justice. 'Chapter 319' was recorded during the protests after the killing of George Floyd, while 'Knees on the Ground' was originally recorded after the shooting of Michael Brown in 2014.

On August 26, 2020, they announced the album Visions of Bodies Being Burned, a companion piece to There Existed an Addiction to Blood; they also released the single 'Say the Name' on the same day. The album was released on October 23 through Sub Pop.

On November 1, 2020, on their YouTube channel, they livestreamed a performance of the first variation of the socialist anthem The People United Will Never Be Defeated! – playing on a tape recorder, under a small flame, on loop, with the picture slowly distorting – until the 2020 United States presidential election was called. The performance was for a movement called '#BeginWithTheBallot' by Alarm Will Sound.(14)

On December 4, 2020, Daveed Diggs released a video in partnership with the Disney Channel entitled 'Puppy for Hanukkah'. The track was produced by clipping. bandmates Hutson and Snipes.(15)

On December 25th, 2020, a music video for the track 'Piano Burning' was released to YouTube to promote There Existed an Addiction to Blood.

Style and influences(edit)

The group has drawn comparisons to the likes of Dälek, Death Grips, My Bloody Valentine,(4)Tim Hecker and Shabazz Palaces.(16)The Guardian described their sound as 'the sort of shrill thrills you imagine could function as incidental soundtrack music for a documentary about abattoirs or might conceivably be the work of a young band intent on twisting industrial metal into brutal new shapes. With rapping on top.'(4)Rolling Stone called them '(n)imble-tongued, beat-fractured L.A. hip-hop spilled over the abrasive crunches, squeals, clangs, slurps, and static of experimental musique concrète.'(17)

As part of their experimental style, the band adhere to certain stylistic limitations. Their instrumentation is derived from real world samples (e.g. using recordings of bottles being hit or bricks breaking) instead of traditional instruments. Similarly, Diggs writes his rap in second person, all 'I, me' language is off limits.(18)

Discography(edit)

Albums(edit)

CLPPNG (Sub Pop, 2014)

Splendor & Misery (Sub Pop, 2016)

There Existed an Addiction to Blood (Sub Pop, 2019)(19)

Visions of Bodies Being Burned (Sub Pop, 2020)

Mixtapes(edit)

midcity (2013)

Remix albums(edit)

Dream Remx (2016)

REMXNG (2016)

Live albums(edit)

Double Live (2020)

Extended plays(edit)

dba118 (2012)

Wriggle (2016)

Face (2018)

The Deep (2019)

Chapter 319 (2020)

Singles(edit)

'Chain' b/w 'Jump' (2013)

'Something They Don't Know' b/w 'Mouth' (2014)

'Knees on the Ground' (2014)

'Fat Fingers'(20) (2016)

'Body for the Pile' (2016)

'The Deep' (2017)

'Stab Him in the Throat' (2018)

'Nothing Is Safe' (2019)

'La Mala Ordina' (2019)

'Blood of the Fang' (2019)

'Chapter 319' (2020)

'Say the Name' (2020)(21)

'96 Neve Campbell' (2020)

'Pain Everyday' (2020)

Remixes(edit)

'ShowYrTattoo' (clippingRemix) (2011)

'forever' (clippingRemix) (2012)

'howlow' (clippingRemix) (2012)

'hauntedbumps' (clippingRemix) (2012)

'lenguaafuera' (clippingRemix) (2012)

'Hello' (2013)

'this song is a drug deal' (clipping. remix) (2013)

'Story 4: Sleeplessly Embracing' (a remix by clipping.) (2014)

'Wear the Wounds' (clipping. remix) (2014)

'Isombard' (clipping. Float On Remix) (2016)

'Tipsy' (2020)

References(edit)

Clippings Hair Salon

^Raymer, Miles (June 13, 2014). 'clipping.: CLPPNG'. Pitchfork. Archived from the original on October 3, 2014. Retrieved October 3, 2014.

^Thomas, Fred. 'Clipping'. Allmusic. Archived from the original on November 27, 2014. Retrieved August 5, 2014.

^'Stream the debut album by Sub Pop industrial rap trio Clipping'. Fact. June 2, 2014. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2017.

^ abcdLester, Paul (February 8, 2013). 'New band of the week: Clipping (No 1,448)'. The Guardian. Guardian News and Media. Archived from the original on August 10, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2014.

^ abcd'clipping. on Sub Pop Records'. Sub Pop. Archived from the original on May 28, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.

^Sherburne, Philip (January 7, 2014). 'Clipping: Los Angeles Noise-Rap Crew Crank Out Scientifically Ugly Party Jams'. Spin. Archived from the original on July 8, 2015. Retrieved May 2, 2014.

^'midcity – clipping'. Bandcamp. Archived from the original on April 3, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.

^'Wriggle | clipping'. Clppng.bandcamp.com. Archived from the original on October 17, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2016.

^'Splendor & Misery | clipping'. Clppng.bandcamp.com. Archived from the original on November 4, 2016. Retrieved November 8, 2016.

^'2017 Hugo Awards Finalists Announced'. Tor.com. April 4, 2017. Archived from the original on April 8, 2017. Retrieved April 7, 2017.

^'2018 Hugo Awards'. The Hugo Awards. March 15, 2018. Archived from the original on April 2, 2018. Retrieved May 6, 2018.

^'CLIPPING – Nothing Is Safe (Lyric Video)'. August 14, 2019. Archived from the original on August 14, 2019. Retrieved August 14, 2019 – via YouTube.

^'CLIPPING – La Mala Ordina'. September 12, 2019. Archived from the original on September 13, 2019. Retrieved September 12, 2019 – via YouTube.

^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on December 21, 2020. Retrieved November 9, 2020.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

^'Daveed Diggs & Clipping Made A Cute Hanukkah Song For Disney'. Archived from the original on December 12, 2020. Retrieved December 4, 2020.

^Cook, Wil (February 6, 2013). 'Clipping – 'guns.up' (Track of the Day)'. The 405. Archived from the original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2014.

^Weingarten, Christopher. '10 New Artists You Need to Know: March 2014'. Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on March 23, 2014. Retrieved May 2, 2014.

^hrishikesh (February 18, 2016). 'Episode 65: Clipping'. Song Exploder. Retrieved April 19, 2021.

^Ruiz, Matthew Ismael (August 14, 2019). 'Clipping Announce New Album, Share New Song 'Nothing Is Safe': Listen'. Pitchfork. Archived from the original on August 17, 2019. Retrieved August 17, 2019.

^'clipping. - 30 Days, 30 Songs'. 30 Days 30 Songs. Archived from the original on February 18, 2020. Retrieved June 22, 2020.

^Breihan, Tom (August 26, 2020). 'Clipping Announce New Album 'Visions Of Bodies Being Burned', Share Single 'Say The Name': Listen'. Stereogum. Archived from the original on August 27, 2020. Retrieved August 26, 2020.

External links(edit)

Official website

clipping. discography at Discogs

Clippingsio

Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clipping_(band)&oldid=1018695164'

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christinaengela · 5 years

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Hello friends and fans!

Welcome to my 34th newsletter – and this time, I think you’ll notice right away that there’s something different about it!

In Brief:

October already? Wow! One of these days it’ll be December and Saturnalia again! 😉 Oktoberfest is on its way – and of course, our favorite festival of the year: Halloween!

In last month’s newsletter I said that this has been one of the busiest, most productive years in writing I’ve had in a long time, and it’s only right that I emphasize that!

That said, this edition of my newsletter also has to be the most intensively updated and detailed one yet! It even has a gorgeous new header image – and lots of extra information!

Let’s carry on, starting with some of the technical background stuff related to my writing!

Discontinuation of the .net website

As I told you last month, the .net website has been discontinued as of mid-September, so please don’t use the christinaengela.net url/link as the redirect to christinaengela.com isn’t expected to work much longer!

I opened the .net site in September 2018 as an experiment, and set up an array of onboard selling tools – but although I finally had just three direct sales from that website during the past year (amounting to a whopping $6 in all that time!) the cost of renewing the service just didn’t justify the expense. I have no intention of renewing the .com domain either when it expires in 2020, since the cost of that via WordPress would be actually three times the renewal cost of the .net through GoDaddy! I will nevertheless do my best to keep all my url mentions updated – hence this reminder!

Updates On Lulu AND Amazon

As you probably are aware, one of the two main service providers I publish through is Lulu.com (the other I use is Smashwords). While both have their fans and their pro’s and cons, Lulu is the only one of the two that distributes to Amazon straight-off – Smashwords wants you to sell a truck-load of a title via their own site, or Apple, or Kobo before they will even consider forwarding it to Amazon! Also, as I mentioned in last month’s newsletter, I’d updated quite a few titles incrementally on Lulu over the past few years, and noticed that inspite of everything I did, Amazon was still displaying some quite old versions of my books that were no longer available, and not updating to the newest versions!

Upon investigation, I complained to Lulu’s help department, and they clarified: it turns out that while I may have updated a project file on a particular book, those changes didn’t reach Amazon. I’m still not sure if this means the process of “revision” on Lulu is automatic and it didn’t work properly in this case, or if the process is not automatic and I’m supposed to notify them to send updated files to Amazon after making changes – they simply didn’t clarify that part – but in the meantime I found a workaround of my own! By that I mean that I undertook the gargantuan task of republishing my books on Lulu not once – but TWICE in the space of a single week!

Let it not be said that I don’t put enough effort into my books! Whew!

The process involved taking down basically ALL my books that are on Lulu, “retiring” them one by one, and then manually republishing each one again – from the beginning, getting new ISBN numbers in the process! As if that wasn’t stressful enough, a few days after completing the updates I received an email from Lulu informing me that this still wasn’t good enough and that I would have to make changes yet again! Hang on a sec – I thought Smashwords was supposed to be the pedantic nitpicking one?

I decided I’d be damned if I was going to change all the covers again to suit them – I wanted the series names on the covers as well, so – groaning and grudgingly, I took all of Galaxii and Quantum down a second time in the space of one week – and republished them again, this time with titles matching the covers EXACTLY! Fortunately, the next morning I received notice that this had done the trick and all Galaxii and Quantum titles had passed Lulu’s evaluation for distribution and had been forwarded to Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble!

I heaved a huge sigh of relief once that was done!

In the meantime, all the titles concerned were still directly available via Lulu’s own shop page, and of course, everywhere else they’re distributed to – Kobo, Barnes & Noble, iBookstore, Smashwords, etc.

All that legwork is now finally behind me, and the newly updated titles that were supposed to have reached Amazon months ago arrived there by the 20th September! But at least, they’re finally there! I was finally able to claim them by clicking “This is my book!” and added them to my Amazon author page! Only then was I able to ask Amazon to link the new editions to previous editions, which will solve the knotty problem of having multiple editions showing side-by-side there!

Still, the drama isn’t quite over yet, as only once this has been done will I be able to update my GoodReads book listing, since their system allows only ISBN/AISN numbers of books being sold on Amazon, and nowhere else!

To make matters even more complicated, somehow in the publishing process over the past couple of years, a duplicate GoodReads author profile got created automatically by some system gremlin or other, and all my current titles are already listed on that site under “Ms. Christina Engela” in duplicate – as they are on Amazon itself – and I can’t claim or add or merge them with my existing GoodReads author user account either! *Head desk!* Perhaps this issue can be resolved if I create a new user account on GoodReads and claim that account… but I still have to get around to it!

I often wonder if aspiring indie authors out there actually knew the amount of work, admin, research, learning, trouble and frustration lying in wait for them, if they’d just give up and not bother! But then, this is my obsession, so it’s not as if I actually have a choice in the matter!

Reviews

“Dead Man’s Hammer” received an amazing 5 star review from UK writer and reviewer, Lee Hall on September 9! I’m not sure how other writers take it, but when I see glowing reports of something I wrote, containing statements like: “As the Quantum series unfolds, it grows more and more impressive“, “Dead Man’s Hammer is proof that Christina Engela can build an established world and insert so many genres into it along with retaining a unique style of writing that not only tributes her influences but has a way of confiding in readers” and “Throughout Engela’s writing style naturally flows and is fun to read“, I feel like breaking out the bubbly and inviting people round to celebrate!

It’s truly gratifying to realize that the reason a reviewer is saying these things, is because they took the time to read something I wrote. It’s also humbling, and I’m very grateful!

It’s probably worth mentioning though, that “Dead Man’s Hammer” has been available since 2006, and this is the very first review I’ve had of that particular title! That alone should serve as an indication of how difficult it is to get reviews as an indie or self-publishing author!

Theo & Yvonne Engela’s Books – New Covers & Formatting

As part of the revision process I told you about in the previous section, I took the opportunity to fix a few things and improve upon the presentation of my parent’s books! I know, I know, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it, right? Still, I couldn’t help myself! At any rate, what I did was create new covers for my parent’s books to make them stand out more, and also to make them look similar and part of the same series, while also reformatting the interior of the eBook into a more uptodate and modern format – the same as the one I use on all the Galaxii and Quantum books! I think they really pop, don’t you?

Poetry by Wendy K. Engela

A couple of months ago my wife and partner in all things wierd and wonderful, Wendy, published her first book – a collection of her gothic poetry! “Season’s Change“. The collection is now available as an eBook via all the expected places, Amazon, Lulu, Smashwords, and all their distribution partner sites.

Sales & Downloads

Since I made a host of new free promotional items available on Lulu and Smashwords, interest towards the end of July – particularly on Smashwords has been gradually showing signs of improvement. Let’s just say that at least I can detect a pulse! Downloads of my free items are happening, and I feel a little encouraged. On the sales front however, things are still pretty dire. Hopefully they will pick up soon.

Current Writing Projects

Book 7 in Quantum – tentatively operating under the working title “Underground Movement” – is still under way. Just slowly. At the time of last month’s newsletter I told you I’d just reached over 29000 words… and then I peeled some of those off and shifted them to the next title after that’s draft… so “Underground Movement” is currently sitting at just over 21000 words again! Still, it’s all part of the creative process, isn’t it? Right now I’m pondering whether I shouldn’t just merge the next two title’s stories? The story’s finer detail is still evolving and unfolding, so sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of the path while I’m distracted by all the scenery! Anyway, when I make my mind up, I’ll let you know!

Translation

As some of you may recall, in 2016 I released Afrikaans translations of “The Thirteenth Ship” and “Wiggle Room“, which like the English originals, were made available as free downloads. These have been updated and made available once again! I also made it a goal back in the day, to get all my fiction works translated into Afrikaans for the local market, but also into a couple of other languages – as far as that was possible! Translation work isn’t easy, as I’m sure you can imagine – translation apps can really mangle the works up, and without a native language-speaker to check these translations I’m still up the creek without a canoe!

That said, I’ve had to rely on volunteers to do it out of their own good will rather than to pay top dollar for paid translation services! All I’ve been able to offer people willing to assist me in this task, is mention of their name in the credits and perhaps to give them a free eBook copy of any one of my paid books upon completion of the job!

Now, before you accuse me of being a skint old duck, please bear in mind that the items I wanted translated were all free sample works for which I wouldn’t get paid anyway! It doesn’t make sense to spend thousands of near-worthless Souf Efikin ronts on something that gets given away for free, does it? That being said, some time ago, a few people volunteered eagerly to translate a couple of short stories, and quietly disappeared, never to be heard from again! This recently was the case as well, with several apparent eager-beavers silently vanishing into the mist! Hopefully, in the long-run I can get some of the novels translated. This is a long-term goal, so I expect progress to be slow.

Communication

I’ve also done my level best recently, to start making a post via my website blog daily and then sharing that across social media instead of posting directly to Facebook, Twitter et al. The goal I’ve kept in mind is to post informative articles about various different characters or elements of my stories – and also to come across to readers as more personable… that is to day, less businesslike and less intimidating. After all, I is human too, and I don’t bite… much! So far, that seems to be helping! Below are links to a few of my most recent posts on The Crow Bar:

The Tech Side #1: A Broad-Spectrum Approach To Sci-fi Storytelling

LGBT Heroes in Galaxii & Quantum – the “G” in LGBT

Secret Weapons of the Resistance: Time Travel, Beck the Badfeller & Cindy-Mei Winter

FAQ’s Answered #13: Who Is Sona Kilroy?

FAQ’s Answered #12: Who Is Cindy-Mei Winter?

FAQ’s Answered #11: What Is The Time Saving Agency?

Storm Area 51! Let’s See Them Aliens! Etc!

FAQ’s Answered #10: Who Is Marsha In “Dead Beckoning” to Blachart?

FAQ’s Answered #9: What Inspired “Prodigal Sun” & “High Steaks”?

Secret Weapons of the Resistance: Fred (the Arborian)

Secret Weapons of the Resistance: Bovine Torpedoes

FAQ’s Answered #8: What Inspired The Akx?

Preserve The Past… Save The Future!

Another Round At The Crow Bar #33 September 2019

FAQ’s Answered #7: What Do I Write About (& Other Questions)

Anyway, let’s move on to some more new releases!

New Releases

Some of you may recall that in 2016 I released Afrikaans translations of “The Thirteenth Ship” and “Wiggle Room“, which like the English originals, were made available as free downloads. These have been updated and made available once again!

Currently Available Titles:

I currently have 22 unique titles available in 4 series (not including the 15 free promotional items).

Alternately, you can view Christina’s books at Amazon, Smashwords, Lulu or Payhip.

Some of Christina’s titles are available in other languages: Afrikaans.

The Galaxii Series