Promo Post on Wednesday

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

I could use as an excuse that there is not much point doing it this week, because the Based Book Sale is sucking the oxygen out of the room. Or the money out of your wallets.

But that is not the problem. The kidney infection we thought had been beaten made a return in force and worse. I think we stopped the antibiotics too soon. So two days ago there was a trip to the emergency side of my doctor’s office, and I got a bigger, badder antibiotic. Right now still have infection symptoms (To be fair it’s been two days) but I’m also having symptoms of antibiotic, which is beating my butt from here to next week, and making me dizzy in the bargain.

After I rest some, I might put up a post with all our people in the BBS. (Turns out church and grocery shopping is about the limits of my spoons. I got stuff to start dinner, but I’m sitting down for half an hour first.)

For now off the top of my head, if you search for my number, I have 6 books in it, the most notable being all three volumes of No Man’s Land. Since I have no intention of ever taking it to Kindle Unlimited, but I know some of you are strapped for money (we’re okay, not swimming but okay, weirdly thanks to NML) and thus this is your chance to get all three volumes for $3. Same if you’re not absolutely sure about this brain-child of mine and don’t want to spring the big bucks. This is less than half what one volume will cost you not on sale. Also remember if you want to give it to friends you can buy it now for delivery before Christmas, and they’ll think you’re a big spender.

Other people from our little band on the BBS, off the top of my head: Mary Catelli, C. Chancy, Holly Chism, Nathan Brindle, Caroline Furlong, Timothy Witchazel.

I’m sure there are others. I’m sure I’ve promoted others on the sale on Insty. But both the infection AND the antibiotic make me stupid. I type things like sock up (Sockhop) and worse, and I forget my cats names.

So if you’re on the sale, put it in the comments. I REALLY will try to collect all this into a post this evening, then link it at insty. Remember to copy the link from BBS, if you put a link in the comments.

And now, I’m going to aimlessly surf the net for a while, or maybe nap.

32 thoughts on “Promo Post on Wednesday”

  6. Yes, our best wishes for a very speedy recovery.

    In the absence of today’s challenge, allow me to pose a serious question for Sarah, Mary, and all the authors who frequent this space.

    Do you find that your desire/ability/compulsion to write has a daily pattern? A creative circadian cycle, if you will. Is it morning, noon, or night? Or perhaps a more complex set of times depending on the weather, seasons, and tides of the moon.

    I’d be very interested to hear your thoughts. Thanks!

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    2. I write every single day. Otherwise I fall off the wagon. (And I report it online at some locations for progress. Until I started that, I didn’t keep faithful to the habit.)

      Evening tends to be best.

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    3. I tend to do non-fiction or research int he morning, fiction in the afternoons, and read in the evenings. This started when I was in grad school, continued through the dissertation, and now works in with Day Job. A few times, I write during pauses at Day Job, but that’s often when I know I can’t get any words down at the usual time (appointment, household work, that sort of thing). Or I research read, because that material is often useful for Day Job as well.

      If I’m on the road I usually write early in the morning, between the dawn stroll and breakfast, and late evening (if I have a brain cell left, and some privacy).

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  8. Here are my three:

    https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/the-summer-2026-based-book-sale#§the-saving-of-the-city-a-poem-in-alliterative-verse-by-timothy-witchazel

    https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/the-summer-2026-based-book-sale#§joshua-and-the-battle-of-jerichoa-poem-in-alliterative-verseby-timothy-witchazel

    https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/the-summer-2026-based-book-sale#§noah-and-the-great-flooda-poem-in-alliterative-verseby-timothy-witchazel

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      2. I would have gotten all 3 NML volumes to boost your BBS numbers, but alas I bought the set back in October when they were released. And I already own the other three books. Still, congratulations on being the leader of the BBS pack, at least you were earlier this evening when I went shopping on it!

        Rest, get better as soon as you can, and yes, you are much too good of a writer to lose!

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  12. I ran into something recently that kidney stones were discovered to be actively formed by bacteria as a sort of home base / protective shield thing.

    So it’s not necessarily the original infection, but might be a stone that was keeping it a payload hid through the first round that cracked open for wave two.

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  13. Need to work on the autism and get myself with more spoons to write.

    And/or develop the tech to grab all the nasty diseases that keep infesting you, Great Aunt, pull them out and have them flogged within a quarter inch of their lives.

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  19. Get well (that is, really well) soon.

    And take care of yourself, no, literally do take care of yourself, well and earnestly too.

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