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:bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: U P D A T E June 29th :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen:
I'm back, and noticed that we got our first positive review on Amazon.com, awesome!
I went to a funeral in Montreal :-( and slept at my mom's, and happened to snap this pic of her wearing a Tanita t-shirt :-) 
Mom by 914four
Maybe some day I can convince her to write a review...
Note: There is still a chance to win one of these shirts (2XL) with the impossible car quiz elsewhere in my journals.

:bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: U P D A T E June 24th :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen:

Cover art for The Centaur by 914four Available at: www.amazon.com/Centaur-Kentaur…

:bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: U P D A T E June 23rd :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen:
Good news, the folks at Library and Archives Canada CISS beat their stated mandate of a three day turnaround by two and a half days. I wrote my new password down so this doesn't happen again! :-)
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Amazon says 12 to 48 hours to release!
Thank you, everyone, for your patience.

:bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: U P D A T E June 23rd :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen:
Oh yeah, since 20% of you refused to answer, the overwhelming majority (20%) recommended that the book be priced at $3.99; who am I to blow against the wind? :D

:bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: U P D A T E June 23rd :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen: :bulletgreen:
I guess someone didn't like the first book, every positive review on Amazon.com has had a "not useful" tagged to it except for one. If any of you know who that was, please let them know they missed one. ("The Kentauride" was offered for $0 this weekend, and exactly 178 copies were "sold" worldwide, bringing the total to about 1400 copies in all. We also made it into the "top 100 free" books on Saturday)

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For those of you who logged onto Amazon on Saturday morning expecting to find "The Centaur" for sale, I sincerely apologize. If it's any consolation, I too, was desperately anxious to see the book there on time. Unfortunately, a series of incidents cascaded and we are currently stuck at the "submission" stage.
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I won't bore you with the gory details, but suffice to say that the last week has been "interesting" (Old Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times). The major events include a death in the family, my five-year-old finding a thriving wasps nest in the back yard, and lastly and probably most relevant here, I must have messed up my password because I got locked out of the CISS web portal. Since the 24th is a major holiday in Quebec, I am not likely to hear back from them until the 25th, and I need that access to retrieve the ISBN number for the book. So for now, it seems like the earliest release date is probably the 26th, as the Kindle folks take a day or two before they will release the eBook. Since I have to attend a funeral in Montreal on the 26th, I am hoping that everything will fall into place before I have to leave and it will go live without my intervention.
So once again, I apologize profusely if I spoiled your weekend in any way, and thank you for understanding.

As an aside, he was stung four times, but two of the stings caused massive infections (golf-ball sized) and he had to be taken to emergency, and is now receiving serious antibiotics four times a day (40 doses in all, the pharmacist phoned the doctor about the size of the dose). I knew that some people are allergic to wasp or bee stings, but he was fine the day it happened, it was only the following day that he began to swell up. I'd never heard of a wasp sting becoming infected, but I thought I should warn all of you to be careful of wasps.
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RUreddyjoe86's avatar
nice!  I know what I'll be doing tonight!  

Is your son's infection any better?