Blogging again

Hello Bloggers,
I guess I'm a little behind on my blog. It's 4 1/2 weeks after my total hip replacement surgery. Everyone tells me I'm doing well, but it seems a little slow to me. The worse thing is bending over, I painted my toe nails the other day and got as much on my toes as on the nails. It's a real stretch.
I joined a group of GrayDogPress authors the other evening to discuss some new marketing plans. As you must know after a book is out the first few months sales will be pretty good, but after that sales really drop off. We have to find new markets for our books. This is a very time consuming effort and takes away time I would like to be devoting to writing my next novel.
Speaking of novel number 2, I've been doing pretty well with everything but who will commit the murder. yes, there has to be a murder. I pretty much had it figured out and got into some good dialogue, of course I save everything on a flash-drive. Well, the problem was apparently I didn't save this last chapter that I was working on. Yesterday I searched and searched to no avail. It was a good piece of work. So I'll get back to my lap top, plug in the flash-drive and write another chapter.
My son and grandson are finally here from New Zealand. Matthew has a few more weeks before he has to start school. My granddaughters will be leaving next week to go to college at Biola U. in So. California. I will sure miss them but so happy to have Mark and Matthew here. My daughter-in-law and granddaughter will come after Christmas. Life is good here in Cheney, Washington.