Crystal Blade Ep 25: Please Please Me is live at Kindle Vella. Go forth and enjoy!

Spent the bulk of yesterday in an organizational frenzy for both Belaurient Press and Belaurient Arts, and I am pleased to say that all the financials are now organized and up to date (and to my shock I am already in the black for both BP and BA), my to do list is pristine, and my EIN application has been processed. Next week I can open a business bank account, open a PayPal business account, and start selling books from the website, whee! And in two weeks once my EIN has been added to the TIN I can get my Texas state tax ID. Ain’t going to piss off the state comptroller nohow.

Putting all the books wide is proceeding—I should have all the Olympic Cove books up on Smashwords and Google Play by tonight, and if SW gets a move on they should be available on B&N/Apple/Kobo/et al by next week. I was noodling with the idea of formatting Stealing Dmitri, Trickster, and Behind the Iron Cross this weekend but I would also really like to deep clean my office and give my closet a proper reorganization. One of these days when I have money I’m going to tear out the shelving in there and put in custom shelving that will better suit my needs. But for now I need to work with what I have, and I know I can set stuff up in a more efficient way.

And I know some people may wonder why I’m bothering with all this when I could be writing, but I’m trying to keep weekends available for business work and cleaning. And to be honest I work better when my environment is clean. I’d rather take a day and get everything straightened out than sit there distracted by the dust rhinos when I’m trying to write.