Morning Diary April 30, 2022

My morning diary, April 30, 2022: More chores, little actual writing. I’m still battling the con crud picked up at Malice Domestic, but I feel like I’ve turned the corner and recovering.

* Continue processing clips from “Dead Man’s Folly” (2013).

* Write and post “Cheeseplate with Agatha” and post to Agatha Christie FB fan site and SM

* Finish revised “Complete, Annotated Whose Body?” Upload print version to Amazon, changing status to public domain

* React to Amazon’s responses to price changes to some books.

* Post more media to SM

* Continue work on publishing schedule

* Take Teresa to public notary to sign pension papers

* Work on back yard patio

* Play with tomato plants

Commentary: All of this is self-explanatory except the near-constant battle to keep Amazon from delisting the “Complete, Annotated” books. Despite accepting a flood of cheap knock-offs, they still insist on blocking some of my books. Part of this is my fault; I believed that adding 30,000 words of copyrighted material makes them a copyrighted book. They disagree.

My problem is that yesterday I updated the price on “The Cases of Blue Ploermell” without changing the status (I forgot). I fear it’ll go through their automated system and get flagged. Two truly copyrighted books were passed quickly, but not this, nor “The Casebook of Twain and Holmes” (could the words “Sherlock Holmes” trigger the system?). We’ll see.