Symi Sunrise, SNiP and Sunday
Happy new month to you, kalo mina, and all that. We saw a glorious sunrise on Sunday, as you might be able to tell from my phone camera. This was around 5.45, so you have to be up early to get the full benefit. Here on Symi, we also had a visit from the vest who carried out planned cat neutering organised by SNiP with the assistance of the town hall, Symi Animal Welfare, Greek Cat Welfare Society and others. All part of the plan to keep the number of strays down and thus improve the quality of life for street and bin cats.
For my part, I spent Friday wrestling with files and things for a book release. Having changed to a new computer, I discovered that my desktop publishing programme, a thing called InDesign, had a font missing. A simple issue that should have been easy to sort out but wasn’t. Although everything looked fine on my PDF copy of the file that was going to print, when I viewed it on the Amazon viewer after upload, which is where you check the document page by page, I found there were two pages not showing up. They were blank, and there was no reason for this. Long story short… After several hours of messing about, I gave up and went back to my old machine which is now in the other office, and ran the file through that. Ping! I was able to finish the formatting in seconds. I know which PC I’ll be using for layouts from now on.
The book, btw, was number six in The Clearwater Mysteries series of mystery, men and murder in Victorian London (you can add in madmen, mayhem and mates with a touch of feel-good, love, lust and humour). I’m rather stuck on these characters and ongoing sagas right now, and as I mainly write for myself, that’s fine by me. The seventh, which I’m working on now, is a calmer, slower and more ‘cosy’ mystery, and it’s coming along nicely, thank you. Oh, the things we do in lockdown, you say. Well, this is what I do all the time, but staying home as much as possible is an excellent excuse for me to stay home like I usually do, and surface every now and then for an after-work calm down at Rainbow, or wherever.
