The Sparrow's Nest

Hello, everyone! I've been saving this video for a long time, because it is so freaky! I saw it this summer and I wasn't right for several days. These are videos of paranormal activity caught on video, but they are more than just orbs and vloggers saying they hear something that nobody else does. Or it's obvious they walked into a drug den. Remember to be safe, have fun (because that's very possible), and above all, eat lotta candy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnvPiEvUKLU

I periodically check The Scarlet Leaf Review to see if my story "Keepress" came out yet. It was supposed to be out in September. Of course, that didn't happen. I checked back today, and there is finally a release date! The editor is going to combine several issues together, which includes the September issue, and they're all going to be released on November 9. Hopefully, by then I'll have an answer for my other stories, which have been waiting FOREVER. I abhor waiting. So do my stories.

I've been noticing a correlation between views on this blog, impressions on my book, and it's sales rank. Both go down at the same time and both go up at the same time. I attribute this to Halloween is coming, elections are coming, and the whole world has gone absolutely insane. The virus is to blame! (Oh, I've decided to be a cat for Halloween, if anybody cares.) The only thing to do is just not check anything, bury my head in the writing and be glad my rank is no longer in the millions, because it was. Quite depressing. It's not depressing anymore, though, thank goodness. I'm in the middle of adding the details to the third book in the Monsters and Demons series. That book has been really fun to write. As for my horror shorts, I'm still waiting on replies from the magazines. I can't wait for Christmas. It feels like it's going to be a beautiful Christmas.

I saw a post about dealing with COVID-19 and the holidays. Personally, I'm totally excited. The last time I went trick-or-treating, (I was taking my younger siblings--I was getting candy, too. Shoot, why not?) I got charged by an evil dog. Some wretches never tied up their dogs. I ran into people who'd been chased down the road. On the reservation, everybody has a dog, and not everyone ties them up. Actually, nobody ties them up. One year, I saw some people walk into a yard and the dog barked and growled at their heels all the way to the door. It then followed the group all the way to the gate. There were kids under eight in that group. Trick-or-Treating is life and death sometimes, and it's not always in the candy. This year, we have decided to do a little family party involving only the members we're quarantined with. Some people out in the world are isolated, but I have a big family and we ended up being quarantined in the same tiny house. Here, there's not enoug...

All right, so yesterday, I had contacted both KDP Customer Support and Author Central about salvaging book reviews. Author Central answered me first and said I could save my reviews even with a different author name and different cover with a different title. I spoke to Author Central twice before KDP even answered me. I sent the old and new ISBN numbers to Author Central. My old reviews from "Pariahs" were saved and are now on "Nri Kryne's" sales page. All this was done before KDP answered me back with a "you can't save your reviews because they're different products even if the content is the same." If you want to salvage your reviews, DO NOT go through KDP Customer Support. Work with Author Central. If you really want anything done, go through Author Central. They're the ones who put my book on more categories than the two you have to pick on publishing your book.

Since "Nri Kryne" came along, I've lost my reviews for "Pariahs." There is a way to get them back, but the help center on Amazon isn't helping. I asked two very specific questions and they sent me a copy and paste answer. I know, because I had both e-mails from them. The e-mails were word for word. Anyway, I don't know what robot is working the help center, but if you send them the ISBN for the old book and the new book, they can put your reviews back on. The problem is that the copy and paste answer talked about the same title and content. When I asked about different title and same content, they sent me the copy and paste. This was in the kdp.amazon.com help. I've heard Author Central is better. Maybe they don't have robots. So I've also written to them. Maybe a human will answer me this time and help me get things sorted out. Also, I have four reviews for Nri Kryne now, but you can't see two of them. Three of them appear in Author Cent...

One day, I was driving along down the highway. I was going to the store. Some butthead almost ran into me thirty seconds out and I was jittery. Several crows were eating a dead animal on the side of the road. As I approached, for some funky reason, one of the crows took flight and flew straight for my windshield. I screamed as the bird went BAP! Its giant wing left a shiny imprint on the glass. Yeah, it was shiny. I don't know why it was shiny. Maybe it got a hold of some shoe shiner. The bird went flying off to the side of the road. After that, I was driving like an old lady all the way to the store, and then I played passenger on the way home. I was wondering what had happened to the crow. I saw the same group of crows munching on their buddy, because they preferred fresh meat. What a way to go: diner to dinner.