{"id":5781,"date":"2015-02-20T12:22:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2015-02-20T12:22:42","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T18:22:42","slug":"little-things-better-than-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2015\/02\/20\/little-things-better-than-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Things Better than Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/dandelions.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5783\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/dandelions.jpg\" alt=\"Fluffy dandelions\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/dandelions.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/dandelions-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I am <a title=\"I'm Not Good at Self Promotion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2013\/12\/20\/im-not-good-at-self-promotion\/\">not the best at promoting the things I do<\/a>. Because of this, after releasing a new e-book or doing something else online that can make money, things fall off to a trickle. I&#8217;m fine with that; there are usually newer and bigger things I&#8217;m working on. Spending too much time on something that&#8217;s been out there a while takes away from <a title=\"A Magic Life\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/amagiclife\/\">things I&#8217;m doing right now<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s nice that every once in a while, you make enough money to buy a nice beer to use to toast that somebody out there is still finding your stuff. Sometimes it&#8217;s enough money for a tank of gas or a nice meal. I have a good day job full of incredibly cool people, so it&#8217;s not about money or praise for me. But still&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Little Review<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Last night, I was part off <a title=\"Ray Ortega's website\" href=\"http:\/\/rayortega.com\/\">Ray Ortega&#8217;s<\/a> <a title=\"Podcaster's Roundtable\" href=\"http:\/\/podcastersroundtable.com\/\">Podcaster&#8217;s Roundtable<\/a>. While I&#8217;m not all about stats and converting every little thing into something bigger (which is one of the reasons I was chosen for last night&#8217;s show), I <em>do<\/em> care enough to make sure everything someone might go check out actually works. I like making sure links to things are still in good order&#8230;stuff like that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0h6z7Q8USCg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>For those so inclined, here&#8217;s last night&#8217;s chat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Since I knew I&#8217;d talk about <a title=\"Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors on Podiobooks.com\" href=\"http:\/\/podiobooks.com\/title\/hell-comes-with-wood-paneled-doors\/\"><em>Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors<\/em> on Podiobooks.com<\/a> last night, I swung over there for a look. While on the site, I checked comments for the story and saw this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/abbie-review-hcwwpd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5782\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/abbie-review-hcwwpd.jpg\" alt=\"Review of Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors on Podiobooks.com\" width=\"455\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/abbie-review-hcwwpd.jpg 455w, http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-content\/upLoads\/abbie-review-hcwwpd-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Those Little Surprises<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s a review like this that really make writing worth it to me. It&#8217;s not that someone said they hope the story becomes a movie, although that means a lot to me. <em>Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors<\/em> started out as a screenplay, and I&#8217;m glad that feel comes across in the story. More than that, though, is how happy I am every time I see a review that says, &#8220;This is a silly &#8212; even ridiculous &#8212; story. But in the end, it&#8217;s touching.&#8221; (I also love hearing that people listen to the story in traffic, while cleaning house, or &#8212; in Abbie&#8217;s case &#8212; while gardening. Gardening can be wonderful; that someone would let one of my stories share time with that is the best!<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, though, I love that people see something important about family in that silly little story I wrote years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We recently did an episode of the <a title=\"Last Seen...Talking about Family\" href=\"http:\/\/www.meningorillasuits.com\/2015\/02\/11\/men-in-gorilla-suits-ep-106-last-seentalking-about-family\/\"><em>Men in Gorilla Suits<\/em> podcast all about family<\/a>. Families are often broken things in many ways, but somewhere beneath the dysfunction is a thing that makes us human. I&#8217;m glad that comes through in <em>Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors<\/em> for most of the people who have read or listened to the story.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve bought or listened to <em>Hell Comes with Wood Paneled Doors<\/em> (or even snagged it for free)&#8230;thanks so much! Like this blog, the weekly podcast with <a title=\"Shawn Kupfer's blog\" href=\"http:\/\/47echo.wordpress.com\/\">Shawn<\/a>, or anything else I do, it means a lot to me that something I write or record can make someone&#8217;s day a little better in some way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned before that I am not the best at promoting the things I do. Because of this, after releasing a new e-book or doing something else online that can make money, things fall off to a trickle. I&#8217;m fine with that; there are usually newer and bigger things I&#8217;m working on. 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