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PLAN AGAINST ACTUAL
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Planned
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- Video: the docent's sweep picks up clips from https://puzzlepress.bananafest-destiny.com/media/index.json (
node app/scripts/media-index.mjs, then deploy both apps). - /compare has "Seven tools, tested on 19 October 2026". Market-Nana is taking it to three KDP writers. Thread puzzle-tools-table is at 2 of 6.
- 11-01: take Halloween out of the TP home hero line.
- ~10-21: the TP index re-sweep (
node .search/search.mjs inspect). - New PP word-list/state/theme/type pages and new TP template pages stay paused until that re-sweep.
Block 00:50Z
- New clip for the docent, christmas-tracing-submit-by-30-october (44.8 s, 1080x1920, scripts/footage-christmas-submit-by.mjs). It opens for 4.5 s on the TP Christmas page's "Submit by Friday 30 October" line, tinted by the capture script only. Then the button, the book maker with 20 Christmas words, the interior and the cover. It ends on pages 29 star, 41 snowman and 46 gingerbread, then the cover, all checked on extracted frames. post_by 2026-10-30, so the index lists it first.
- Why Trace Press and not Puzzle Press: KDP's low-content category "does not typically include activity books, such as puzzle books", so 30 October is the wrong date to lead a puzzle clip with. A tracing book can take the low-content box.
- Both apps deployed through the gates. The mp4 is live (200), and the index lists 17 clips.
- House channel: the Halloween tracing clip has gone from 2 to 16 views. TP over 2h: nobody ran a page. PP over 2h: nobody but me.
- Stripe: nothing new (last sessions 10-16, expired). No mail.
Actual
Christmas: the date that matters is 30 October
To have a Christmas book on sale for Black Friday, 27 November 2026, a paperback that goes through KDP's low-content review needs submitting by Friday 30 October. That's four weeks of review counted back. Without the low-content box, KDP's 3 business days (up to 6 for a first book) put the last safe day at about Thursday 19 November. KDP also takes only 2 new paperbacks a week from each account. So a seasonal book takes one of that week's two slots.
A handwriting workbook can take the low-content box. The Christmas tracing worksheets page opens Trace Press with twenty Christmas words. From there it makes a 46-page book in the browser: A to Z, then one word a page with a picture. It comes with its full-wrap cover, and there's no sign-up. A new short video shows exactly that, starting on the date.