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New book releasing early November

Have fun, enjoy, read on. And write on.

   

 Mary Daurio likes to spend time with family, walk the dog, play flute, but not housework or shovelling snow so much. She is studying creative writing at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, and she has had some poems and short stories published online and in print. Presently, Mary published a horse racing memoir, A Horsewoman’s Vintage Vignettes, and a fictional novel set in 1915, Time and Chance. It offers a glimpse into human nature and our precarious state and is an allegory for drug use. Soon to be released is a horse racing mystery in the style of Dick Francis, Joint Forces.

Twenty Twenty-five, many years on the Gregorian or Christian Calendar. Bated breath waiting for Christ’s return. Thank God no one’s holding it, that’s for damn sure.

This year has been fine for me, but a full-out flaming fuck for many! And those with the hose in their hand turn the water off and walk away with dry, dirty pockets full of money and not an ounce of care.

My worst enemy, I would not starve and deny medical treatment. That is evil beyond belief. There are those trying to rise against the tide of evil sprouting up around the globe, thick and effulent.

When the world is one burnt husk, try ye in high places, eating your money.

Still, we hope and pray that some sanity will filter down to the world leaders.

This New Year’s, I hope for an epiphany all over the world: “Treat my fellow as my self.”

It matters not what race, colour or creed we are all one!

This Earth we share. Nothing grows on scorched ground.

Is KDP for You?

There are services that will help you publish on KDP, but for a fee. I have a small budget and, although not too computer savvy, attempted it on my own. There are tutorials to watch, and the instructions are fairly straightforward. Many people pay for a professionally created cover, but I chose the free KDP cover creator. I used a picture (one I’d painted in this case) and put it in the different templates. On occasion, I’d get kicked out of the template section, but it was easy to get back in. I was satisfied with the results, and more so with the price point of zero dollars. I chose a different cover for the paperback and Kindle, not on purpose. I couldn’t get the one I used previously to work on the Kindle. I am somewhat impatient, so that was a factor. Then I worried about how the two different covers would work in sales. Apparently, it doesn’t matter, a nice KDP representative told me, since they link together for the sales page, and they did. The Kindle cover is presented first, but if the paperback is clicked, it redirects to a page with that cover. For future publications, I’ll try to keep them the same. I am new at this and will give a window into my experience to anyone planning to publish with KDP. Time will tell, but so far, I’m happy with the process and find the help offered by KDP excellent. I had several pictures, and the formatting was tricky, so I ended up with the best I could do. Also, I foolishly thought that I had all the errors out and published. Then I put my book on Facebook for discerning friends, only to realize that when I got my copy, there were typos, etc. One thing about KDP is that you can edit your manuscript, and future books will not contain those errors. I will know better next go round. It’s a learning curve. Did I mention I’m seventy? Who says you can’t teach an old writer new tricks? Ha!

There were some issues with A Horsewoman’s Vintage Vignettes, and it is not available at this time, but it will return on November 1st. Thanking anyone interested for your patience. A few people have told me it is a good read.