Trisha Jones' Blog

      Well it started out well I started working on a story I started when my youngest kid was about 10 years old. It was going well, I made some progress and I was happy. I started getting my stuff together for an event I had on Saturday.      The event itself went really well and I sold 13 books which is awesome. I met a lot of nice people and a bookstore owner in the town offered to let me do a book signing there which is awesome. While my husband and I were at the event I was able to get a huckleberry plant. I was really excited I finally have one.       After we got home and had dinner and we were relaxing and I was scrolling social media and I found out my father had passed away on Friday May 5th. we had no contact with my family for the last 8ish years.(Long story I will not get into) I bothers me no one from my family told me. But at least I know, I don’t know when anything is happening and where he will be laid to rest. (It has ...

      I have been so busy with vendor events I nearly forgot to blog and send out my newsletter. I was thinking I would walk you all through a day were I am doing an event.       Everything starts when I bring up all the things I need. I get my books, the swag (bookmarks, stickers, business cards, pencils), my banners, and bags, newsletter signup sheets, questions (I will explain those in a moment) and the signs, moneybox with the money to make change, plus the things I need to take credit/debit cards. All the things I just listed I always need no matter if I am inside or outside. Now if I am outside, I need a table, chairs, and my canopy.     On event days, which are normally a weekend day. I get up early so I can take care of my animals, take vitamins, and eat breakfast. Then I help my husband (who helps me at the events) load the car, we do one last check to make sure we have everything then my husband and I go to where the event is being ...

     I was asked a few times how I can write while being a stay-at-home mom. So, I thought I would give you all what a day in my life is looks like. Now I know this may be rather boring for some if not all of you. But I was asked that question enough I felt the need to do this, maybe it will help someone who wants to write but not sure if they can. With that said let's get started.     I start my days at 4:15 in the morning Monday through Friday. Three days a week I work out, not soon after getting up. On the other days I get up early and I spend time with my husband before he goes to work. I take care of my animals before taking my oldest to work on days he works. When I get home from taking him, I do some homework which is mostly just straightening up here and there before sitting down and doing some promoting my books.    After I  pick up my son from work, we eat lunch and I either continue working on promotional stuff or I start working on my ...

  I hope everyone had a good holiday season, and the new year is starting well for you all. My holidays went well and my new year is going well so far. I am writing this for a couple reasons, one is to keep myself accountable to my goals. Two to help those who might feel overwhelmed trying to set goals.   Let’s start with holding myself accountable, I have discovered I write out my goals where I see them I keep to them better. I suggest if you have a hard time keeping to your goals try writing them out and have them where you see them every day. If you still have a hard time try adding some smaller goals, it helps keep you motivated when you see that you were able to mark off goals.    Now the goals, they can be anything, they can be as big or small as they need to be. My goals are small with a few big ones. Mine are, 1. to write everyday for at least an hour a day but try for 1,000words a day. 2. Finish writing book four this year. 3. Get book three edit and possibl...

   The event went well, I made 7 sales which was 13 books. I know it's not the most I sold but it's still more than I thought I would sell. I am trying to get back into my writing, but I also need to get a bunch of promotional stuff done as well. So, I am working on promoting first, mainly because my muse ran away lol.   I don't know how much writing I am going to get done since here in the U. S. this is Thanksgiving week. I am getting everything I need to get done for Thanksgiving on Thursday.   I don't have a whole lot of stuff to tell you about this time. So, I am going to get back to work on promoting happy reading happy writing

 I will be at another event in about 2 weeks to sell my books at is at the same location as the event before Archon. I am posting a link if you are in the area and would like to go and see what all is going to be there. https://facebook.com/events/s/holiday-sip-shop/1164755040784500/ I have been writing more even though I am not taking part in nanowrimo, it’s too stressful for me to do it. The writing I am doing is mostly on paper 14 pages worth. So I am feeling really good about it.  I know this is a short blog but I wanted to let you know about the event :) Happy reading  Happy writing 

      Archon 45 went well, the panels went well, there were a few issues, but I let programing know. I did sell my books over the weekend. I made seventeen sales which I figured out it was twenty-four books in told. I almost sold out of books, don't worry i have more here in my office, I just took part of them to events.        I also got to see some friends and a few people we know; we only get to see them at Archon every year. We enjoyed our weekend, even our youngest came up for Friday evening and Saturday. They did go back to college early Sunday morning (due to their job). I was sad and I do miss my small one but I understand they have school and work.        I took a few days off to rest; I am realizing I am not as young as I used to be. I am getting back to my writing today. I have not gotten much done but that's OK. I better get back to work lol happy reading happy writing