Fallen behind on the blogs, again. Day before yesterday, had to head out and get some mushroom shots for the local paper. While there, picked some more, came home, traded for fresh salmon, raw tuna from neighbors, and some milk and yogurt at the co-op. So of course, yesterday, I spent the whole day fighting this !#!$!! pinched nerve I’ve had all my life and that kicks in when I so much as talk bad to it.

Some people I have to do business with cannot understand why I cannot work with any systems that are not automatic, that is, such systems as Lulu and Ka-Blam’s Indyplanet and the upcoming distributor, Comics Monkey.

It’s very simple; I’m going to be dead someday. Nobody is going to be running these printing and payment systems. Systems like Ka-Blam and Lulu are automatic; the customer orders books, the payments flow in, the author is not involved. But with Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Diamond — I would still have to be alive.  I can’t ship books when I’m dead.