Terri Bischoff
Midnight Ink is owned by Llewellyn Worldwide. Llewellyn has been in business for over 100 years. They started out in astrology and now is a major player in all things metaphysical. Besides publishing our own books, annuals, calendars, and tarot kits and decks, we also are the US distributor for several international metaphysical companies. Today we received somewhere around 13,000 coloring books from one of those accounts. We already have at least half of them sold. The only problem is that we need to put our barcode over the one printed on the book. So every single one of those 13,000 books has to be unpacked, stickers, and packed up again. One of the managers sent out an email asking us to go help sticker if we had the time.
That is where I snorted coffee out my nose. Extra time? I get taking one for the team, I really do. In the past I have picked orders in the warehouse when they needed help. But that was when I was doing 24 books a year, not 36-42 that they are asking of me now.
So what am I up to today? I created a PCS (Project Cover Sheet) for a title I wish to acquire. Our editorial board meets Thursday morning so I will present it tomorrow. I finished a proposal and I am going to try to get that into the meeting tomorrow, but only if I can get the PCS done in the next hour. As always I had a bunch of emails to answer. One was working out the terms of an offer. I started some research on ebook pricing to present to the sales manager. On my list to do that I haven’t gotten to yet is filling out my travel request for the Edgars and Malice Domestic and I need to turn in the receipts from Left Coast Crime. I finished a manuscript I started the other day. And now I need to spend some time thinking about it. It needs some tweaks to make the plotline stronger. It may look like I am staring off into space, but I am actually turning the story over in mind. It will probably take another full read for the pieces to fall in to place. So yeah, I am staring at my cube walls. But only for a few more minutes… because I have that second PCS to get done.
Later, gators.
Oh, I also got a rockin t-shirt in the mail from my new author crush, Lori Rader-Day.
Oh, oh, I am also like five days behind on my celebrating women writers posts. Yeah, that one slipped off the to do list. I shall make up for that as soon as… well, I’m not making any promises.
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