For those of you who are tuning in as a results of viewing my website thanks for comming to the blog! If you have the ebook and have read it please feel free to post your comments here. If you don't have the ebook you can obtain a free advanced copy. email publicity@lfgoodwyn.com and get the details. If you havent visited the website the address is www.lfgoodwyn.com. I will hotst an online chat about the book sometime next month!

Just dropping in

Hello everybody! I'm just dropping in to give my website info:www.lfgoodwyn.com
The ebook is available on Mobipocket.com Title: An Aspirin for a Heartache. It will be available for purchase jan 15th.

Workin' Workin' workin'!

I have been into everything lately. Since I posted last I read, What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day. This book was really good. I liked general direction of the story. It is a very important story about a woman with HIV and what I love most is the way the story was told... and it was a love story...I love those, but not romance novels...at least I think I don't. I read one about a 50-something wannabe half virgin. That was a turn off.
Also I went to FLorida to celebrate a good friend of mines birthday, everyone had to take shots of RedRum to get in the door of her home and it was so fun and by the end of the night we ended up in getting inked at a nearby tattoo shop...I won't say where I got mine.
On another note I have decided to epublish An Aspirin for a Heartache before the release date, which has changed a lot in the past. I think I am going to make it available before Christmas and release the paperback in Febuary. I hope that I can sell an ebook. I was looking at a copy of it this morning and thinking that this would be good to read at the office. I could download it at the computer and read away. But on another note I like to read in the bathtub. How would I be able to do that? I could buy a PDA but what if it falls in the tub? They are handy though because when you travel you can put several titles in a PDA and it's definately a space saver...And how many black folk own a PDA? This is another challenge, but you know what I thought? I Was thinking that this would be a good thing for a book club, because downloading an ebook would be something fun to do..wouldn't it? I'd download an ebook if I were in a book club and everybody else was doin it. SO I hope that they would. So that's it! That's the plan. I am going to target Black book clubs to download the ebook and I am goin to make it cheap. I think about $6.95 does that sound good? I'd download an ebook for six dollars and some change. I'll put a link here in a few days so that all of you can check it out. I also think that I will host an online chat about the book in a few weeks. Take care. And pass it on...

Good riddance!

I don’t think I ever told y’all about this client that I had. He was a pain in the you-know-what from the very start. I typeset his manuscript for him….yes, a man! So you know where I am going with this…male ego!
Well, after reading his manuscript I had formed my opinion of him. Big buckets of his chauvinistic views were splashed across each and every page. But I didn’t let it get to me because this was a job, and I had a job to do. But first let me give you an example of this chauvinism: This was a Christian self-help book, and needless to say the only person who ever needed help was a woman—the man was always the one lending an ear! Also seems like he only had women doing work for him with his book, which may not seem strange but the lady who did his web site, I guess hadn’t been in touch with him, and after my experience with him I can only imagine why, but he tells me that he doesn’t know what’s wrong with her and that maybe she just needs to get some!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, after changes, on top of changes, on top of changes, he decides that he wants a copy of the MS in its original form. Now for those of you who don’t know: I use a software for desktop publishing, so unless a client has this software, which they usually don’t, which is why they come to me, they have to view any changes made in a PDF format. Well he didn’t like the PDF format because he couldn’t make changes. So after telling him over and over again that he wouldn’t be able to view the changes unless I put them in PDF, and that I’d be happy to make as many changes as were necessary, I went ahead and sent it to him…what the hell, right? So immediately he emailed me back asking what program I used. And I told him. Now, mind you that all of this is taking place over a course of about 9months.
In this nine months I have worked with him endlessly on this project. He has gone from being employed to un-employed, to employed, and then unemployed again. And you might ask: How old is he? And I will tell you that the man is at least 50! And while reading this book I found that he has had numerous jobs, including a different job while he was writing his book. What does this have to do with anything? I’m building my case. Well the entire nine months he has been trying to raise money to self publish, he also wanted to pay me to market his book. Alright now let’s zip forward. I didn’t hear from him for about two months, and when I did he tells me that he has been in the hospital and in the same sentence he tells me that the details aren’t necessary…as if I asked him! Then he tells me to just send him the MS in its original format. Well after he realizes he can’t view it, like I told him. He emails back and says, “lets work on this together. My problem was that, in the past, it seemed to take you a really long time to get stuff back to me.” This was a total and complete lie! I think that he didn’t raise the money and was too embarrassed to say so. You see if he had total control over the MS, he wouldn’t have to let me know he didn’t raise the money, he could just never email again. But with me having the MS, he would have to stay in touch. He could have to complete MS, in a PDF format but he has a compulsive need to change it… but if you’re a writer you know how that is, but ain’t no need to take me down that road…I’ve got my own road to travel!
So basically I told him that I have decided to terminate our work relationship. Thank God! And Good riddance!

unpaid parking tickets, no car insurance, and suspended drivers license

I was driving down the street blasting Lionel Ritchie and I noticed some lights behind me...flashing. I pulled over to the slow lane to let the police man pass me but he got behind me. Usually I have a cow when I get pulled over because for the past few years I have had bad luck with unpaid tickets, suspended drivers license, and no insurance. Well this day was different... I had two out of three. Meaning that my liscense were good, I had no unpaid tickest, oh, and did I mention that my tags and inspection sticker was good too? The only thing was the damn car insurance. I hadn't switched it over yet from the old car. I veared to the shoulder and ran through my mind what I was going to say. "Im going to switch the insurance over today, officer." He tells me that I was going 63 in a 50. I was shocked because I haven't sped in years. He said that he was going to run my info. He came back and said, "Ma'am, I'm going to give you a warning," yippee! "You need to slow down.."
"No problem officer."
"Oh, and Mrs. Goodwyn"
"Yes"
"your dress is caught in the door."
I could have died!

Where should I start?

Austin was nice. I went there to train like I mentioned before. It was really great meeting people who had similar interest as me. I found a brillian young man (Katrina survivor) who is going to do help me with my web site. I had a bomb ass roomate who ironed my clothes for me (I'm challenged in that area)and I brewed the coffee. We talked about poverty and the causes of poverty and the discussions were intelligent and deep and throught-provoking.
So I returned that friday and went to my volunteer post that following Monday. (this is a volunteer position if I didn't mention). So far it's been good. Everyone in the office are conservative and I am the only liberal, at least I thought I was...there is this old white lady, I mean she's not really old, maybe 60, but she's a liberal, and not only is she a liberal but she marched for civil rights, for women's rights, and she's a fan of Castro! We talked and she is going to sign the petition for Assata Shakur! She lived in California and met the Black Panthers. I was surprised because In East Texas this is rare. I live around Big Time Bush supporters, who support the war.
What else... oh,I went to a get together over the weekend at my sister-n-law's house and it was for her husband's birthday and we were all drinking and playing dominoes and there was just one other couple there besides me and my husband, and the woman is slutty and I knew this, but check this out, this bitch had the audacity to lick her tongue at my husband when I wasn't looking (he told me). Dig that one! We were all sitting at the table. Me, my husband, her husband, her, my husband's sister, and her husband. So this is my thing: okay, it's okay for her to be attracted to him, and it might be okay for her to lick her tongue out at him (providing I was dead), but it Ain't okay for her to do SHIT while I'm sitting at the table! And the killing part about it is I know her. It isn't like this was our first time meeting. Then she had the nerve to invite me to her party week after next. So to make a long story short, I didn't go off on her at the party (I try to be mature these days) but will wait for her call about the party and when she does I'm going to light into her ass.

I just got back from Houston, visiting family, actually I went up there to meet my father, from New Orleans, to get my kids. I visited my cousins in Houston and my uncle, who is back from Africa and bought me some artifacts. I hate Houston--it's big and hot and spread out. My cousins kept telling me: right down the street and right down the street would be like a 15 or 20 minute drive. When I lived in Memphis it took me twenty minutes to communte from the suburbs to the city! After a full day of down the streets I was smelling like a man, hot as it was.
So I'm back from Houston as of Sunday but today, this morning infact, I am headed to Austin for 4 days. I'll be training for my new part-time job.
But since I've been back from New Orleans a lot has happened. The day I got back, and I should have known this was going to happen, my car started acting up. Everytime I rent a car my car gets jealous, I guess, and starts acting up. Well, before I left for out of town my husband asked me to put a little oil in the car. Well, I went out and bought some but when I got home I realized that we already had a half of quart so I put that in instead. He came in and out the entire quart that I had bought, and I watched him without telling him I put a half a quart in there(I forgot). The next day the car is smoking, oil is spilling. I took it to the oil change place because it was due and they told me that there was too much oil in the car ( I knew that). They changed the oil, got the level right and sent me on my way. SO I went out of town and came back, turned in my rental, turned the ignition of my car on--nothing. I had the battery checked and it was perfect, the alternator...nothing wrong there. Nobody knew what was wrong with the stupid car. It did have 137,000 miles on it, and the dealer said if the tires had any skin on them at all he would take it...so I traded it in...for a new car....and boy does it feel nice.
Now I guess my computer missed me as well because It started tripping when I got back home and all of my work was on there and if something happened to my work I would cry, cry, cry, so I had the work backed up and traded that puppy in for a new one as well.
That's all for now. Oh, I can't spell check this for some reason so bear with me...I am the worst speller.