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Sunday was a gloomy, rainy day, so I experimented with making some promo videos for my new Amazon release, Haiku for the Midnight Hour. I saw an ad on YouTube for videoexpress.ai and decided to check it out. The basic service costs $49.00, and that’s what I got, a basic video-making service. More features cost more money. I was very pleased with the images the AI feature generated. It gave me exactly what I wanted. Since I already paid for Canva Pro, I uploaded the images there and created this 22-second video with some spooky audio. Check it out!

(Video created on Canva)

Haiku for the Midnight Hour (Kindle version) is still listed (as of this writing) as #1 in Japanese Poetry & Haiku on the Amazon Hot New Releases page and #9 on the Amazon New Releases page, which is very exciting. I’m still learning how Amazon works, as it is very overwhelming. Things change quickly as new books get published and sold. But I’m pleased that my book has done as well as it has since it defies traditional haiku. It achieved #1 Amazon New Release in Japanese Poetry & Haiku, Haiku & Japanese Poetry, and 90-Minute Teen & Young Adult Short Reads.