“Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.” ― Seth Godin, Poke the Box
This is a video I made yesterday, which is when I usually make videos. Anyhow, it’s about my continuing battle with clutter and piles of old books attempts to organize my office and save my heirs a shit ton of work when I’m no longer around.
Hi. I don’t have a book review today, but I am going to be coming out with a new book. June 6th is now the release date for my latest Erica Jensen novel. The third book in the series, called Past Imperfect, and it’s available for pre-order in various places and I’m getting the final file ready to upload and I’m also getting ready to meet with the department heads for the production of my movie and I’m doing other things too, but I’m also doing this.
And I just wanted to talk a little bit about things I see on YouTube that I never see in the general media. Not much anyway. I don’t think I’ve seen much about this. It seems like it’s on YouTube all over the place. I think the algorithm knows what I’m interested in. I think that’s what’s happened. I happened to click on one video about Generation Jones and next thing I know, I’m getting all these videos about Generation Jones and why you should feel different if you were born between the years 1955 and 1965 or something like that.
Hi everyone. Well, let’s see if this works. I’ve already tried three times to make this video. Four times if you count the time on my iPhone. Anyway, I had a great weekend, made it very clear going to one webinar that I don’t want an agent, a literary agent, because their values are completely at odds with mine. At least this one agent.
Having discerned that, I went to another video webinar where we talked about self-care, which was much more helpful than listening to this agent yammer on about algorithms.
Hi. Yeah. I think what I’m trying to do today is talk a little bit about quality of life, how to live your life happily, even if you have awful things you have to deal with or bad things happen. Because believe me, dealing with dystonia for the last 20-some years has not been easy. So I have managed, and I manage to see people now and then. That’s nice when I can do that. I’ve tried to be more social lately. I’ve tried to go out and do more book signings lately.
I’ve tried to … I’m now directing the second short film or will be. I’m still in the process, the pre-production process of doing the readings and doing the rehearsal and doing … all of a sudden, I still need to get some props. I’m like, “Oh my God, it’s May and I was hoping to do this in June and I’m not sure that’s going to be possible. And I don’t know how quickly people can … “