Not a bad day at all. The black toner cartridge finally arrived for my laser printer so I set about printing all 248 pages of my novel. It’s in a folder now and I am lovingly stroking it. I would have posted a picture but who wants to see a bundle of paper? Just got to sit down and decide who I am going to approach first. Not that many publishers accept unsolicited manuscripts these days, so I have my work cut out for me. Anyhow, I have already prepared myself for rejection. I am a useless worthless cunt and my novel is insipid, boring and borders the line of trash fiction. Using this as a foundation of my writing persona, I can take on just about anything. I remember sending novels off before, when I was a younger man. I did have a pile of rejection slips somewhere; trophies with which to remember each failure. Failure is nothing to be afraid of. To try and fail is an achievement in itself than not trying at all. Or something. I don’t know what I am talking about. 🙂
The other good thing was that I checked by payments schedule from CDBABY and the quarterly payments for digital downloads have come in. Whoo-hoo! I netted myself an incredible $45 in downloads…and for each track downloaded or played I get something between 90 cents and 10 cents, so you do the math. Who knows, maybe one day I’ll be able to give up my day job as a professional dreamer? I jest, of course. I think this rise in payments has come about because more and more digital download companies are affiliated to CDBABY and more people are downloading my stuff by mistake. Poor fools. Will they ever learn?
In the post: A NIght at the Opera 30th Anniversary Edition. Always a big fan of this album. Queen were my first favourite band when I was about 12 years old. We audited the DVD audio disc in 5.1 Dolby surround and it is rather spiffy. So much so, that I am planning on penning a review. For £10.99 this is one reissue well worth having.

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