4/5/2024 Weekly Update

4/4/2024 → Thursday Skype & Write: Monthly Meeting

Last night was our monthly meeting, and we had several things to discuss.

First up, as always, was Graeae Publishing business. Mickie got our annual registration done for 2024 and 2025, so we’re set for the next two years – go Mickie!

We realized that when we did our last series bible update, we were actually supposed to be working on future planning for the Perfect Coven series, and instead we worked on our cozy series. Oops. So the future planning is back on the calendar for April.

We next moved to our ongoing discussion of social media use as authors, branding, all that stuff that goes along with being a writer these days. Mickie is working on designing some promotional reels/posts for Homegrown Murder, and she’s also looking to repost some older Homegrown Trouble posts and some of Sid’s T.L. Sidney author posts to the Graeae Publishing Instagram account (graeaepubllc).

James has not begun setting up his author accounts on Insta/Threads at this time because Life Is Happening and while he wants to do it, he just doesn’t have the bandwidth to devote to it right now. We are hoping that things settle out soon, and we can all get back into our routines, because honestly, Life Is Happening for all of us right now – and Mercury is in retrograde, such great timing! – and some things just have to be put on the back burner until we can make it all work.

(Life Is Happening seems to be the 2024 theme so far. I hope Life eases up a bit, and perhaps starts happening a bit more slowly soon.)

Then we finished off with some worldbuilding, which is always great fun.

We also discussed and updated the Graeae Publishing webpage, go check it out!

That’s it for our monthly meeting. Next week, we’ll be writing, so tune in to see how it goes!