On rest days, royalties, and the ripple effect of honest storytelling
Writer’s Log – Stardate 0725.20
Sunday, July 20, 2025 – Miami, Florida
This morning, I received a cheerful email from Amazon Accounts Payable: my Kindle Direct Publishing royalties for May will arrive around July 29. The EFT won’t be anything to frame—just $31.91, according to my KDP dashboard. It’s not even enough to cover the new Trump-era fee to register a single literary work with the Library of Congress.
For context: earlier this year, I paid $60 each to file copyrights for Reunion: A Story and Reunion: Coda. By June, registering Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen cost me a whopping $125.
Still, $31.91 feels light-years better than $0.00. I hold out hope that more friends—especially those who said they enjoyed Reunion: A Story and were hungry for more—will give Reunion: Coda and Comings and Goings the love they deserve. I spent two years getting my first novel into the world. And although I didn’t plan it, I released a short, elegant companion piece earlier this summer.
Today’s Sunday, supposedly my day of rest. I don’t plan to touch the Winter 2025 project. I’m tired—woke up far too early, and even two cups of coffee couldn’t pull me out of the fog. After a quick lunch, I’ll drift into downtime: either reading a book or watching something on Movies Anywhere or Prime Video.
A Certain Point of View, Too 
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