Erotica By Helen E. H. Madden

Busy, busy, busy. I keep meaning to post before I go to bed, but between handling e-mail for Marscon and trying to get the kids to sleep, I just haven't had time. Or rather, I would have the time if I stayed up, but I am trying to get to bed by 9PM so I can wake up at 5AM the next morning and not feel like a zombie. 'Cause if I feel like a zombie, I ain't getting up.

So what have I done since Friday?

More Marscon e-mails, although that has slowed down a bit now that I have everyone's bios and I know who's on what panels. I still need to find out who's available to man the dealer's table throughout the weekend. I'll work on that tomorrow.

I went shopping, in preparation for the con. We need all sorts of stuff for the dealer's table - a cash box, price stickers, receipt book, pens, etc. The coolest find of my expedition was not Marscon related though. I managed to pick up a bunch of composition notebooks for $1.26 a piece. I use those suckers to keep track of all my ideas, especially for the podcast. Without the Mead composition notebook, there would not even be a Heat Flash podcast! Everything else I bought was for the con. Everyone is bringing their own cash box, so I picked up some index cards and a file box. I figure we can write down the title, author, publisher and price of each book being sold and keep account of how many were sold through out the day. Hmmm... we still have not addressed how to handle purchases of multiple books from multiple authors or publishers. How will we divide that up? Sounds like another e-mail.

I also bought blank CDs, labels, and slip covers. My plan is to make 100 CDs of my podcast Heat Flash and sell each CD for $1. Each CD will contain MP3s of the first three months of the podcast, 16 episodes total (if I can fit that many on a CD). The price is low, but enough to offset the cost of the supplies. I'm more concerned with getting out the word about the podcast than I am about making money at this point, so I'm hoping this works.

Writing - I wrote another story for the podcast. This one was about 650 words long. February's theme is "Fetish." I write the stories a month out, and record a week out. I also did some work for Inside The Erotic Mind (ITEM) over at ERWA, going through discussion threads from one of the e-mail lists, looking for topics to use for an article. I think I found one, also on fetishes. Can't seem to get away from the topic right now.

Podcast - I already mentioned writing a new story. I also recorded next Friday's episode this morning, and did a little clean up work on the audio. And I edited the story for the week after that. I want all my stories to be 1000 words or below, but this one is running a little long no matter what I do, and since I'm on a tight deadline, I'm not fighting with it any longer. Since I'll be at Marscon all next weekend, I need to record the next episode either tomorrow or Tuesday, rather than wait until next weekend.

And I think that's about all I did this weekend. Seems like a lot looking back at it. Not bad for three days work.

Labels: Conventions And Appearances, Podcast, Today's Work

Sunday, January 13, 2008

This Weekend's Work