The week in review...

or something.

What follows is what I've been up to when not being enraged/depressed about the level of police brutality and lawlessness in this country. If you want my take on that, I've been tweeting incessantly about fundraisers, politics, fandom fails, writing news and random pictures of the solar system. So if you want more of that, best to follow me on Twitter - @clundoff. It took me ages to get out there and now Twitter turns out to be the perfect medium for my attention span, go figure.

Here's what's going on otherwise, personal level:

• I've turned in my next LGBT SFF series to SF Signal. The 2000-2010 post was huge and will run in two parts, posted a week apart. First installment, 12/10, second 12/17.
  
• I'll be a writer guest at Marscon 2015
  
• I'm writing an essay about Irene Adler (recent media depictions vs. canon) for a new book of Sherlock Holmes articles and spoofs (huzzah!)
  
• Currently working on a space opera piece (to hopefully submit to Queers Destroy SF), a Moriarty story for an antho of same, a horror story to sub to Dreams from the Witch House and novel edits. And poking at Blood Moon again. Plus Emily stories.
  
• Next week, I take a 2 day workshop on starting a small business and I'm so not prepared to launch or follow up yet. But will hopefully will be a tiny bit closer by then.
  
• Wrangling weekly dentist visits for Mom who needs huge amounts of major (uninsured) dental work, so tons of extra stress for everyone involved. The dementia drugs are becoming less effective too, which is a mixed blessing, since it means she tunes out pain better at least, but also tunes out useful things.
  
• MCBA's Winter Book is upon us, with all that that entails (last minute book binding! fun!). The reception is on 12/13 at 6:30 and this year's Winter Book features a story by the awesome Will Alexander, all around swell guy and National Book Award winner, and a deluxe binding by Jana Pullman, my swell wife and MN Book Artist of the Year. Plus work by a bunch of other artists. It will be fabulous!
• Lovely Iowa friends moving up to the Cities for a job so we'll get to see them more often.
  

Now to go run out to talk to the guys in the rental house next door about a missing package belonging to our neighbors from 4 years ago (it got misdelivered - I'm not accusing them of anything :-). The glamor!