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Having a not..,
Oct. 18th, 2018 04:24 pmgreat week. Low on cope, ouchy and sucked briefly into other people's drama. One good friend is very ill, another is ghosting, there are some additional issues with people in my life that I won't go into on an open post and I'm feeling low and sore and unhappy. So this is a cheering myself up post.
I'm getting a bunch of stuff done for my new anthology, Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space). Blurbs are in, cover is almost done, interior is done, announcements and review copies are flying out the door. I'm pretty anxious about the cost for this one, since it's the most expensive book so far and table sales notwithstanding, book sales for the Press have been in the toilet for two months now. But hopefully this book will do well and give some of the others a boost. Not getting much writing done, which probably isn't helping, but I'm hoping to dig back in very soon here. My goal is to have a draft of Blood Moon done by the beginning of December. We'll see.
I'm going to try and take most of tonight off and watch "I am Not Your Negro," a documentary about James Baldwin, and "Disobedience," a film about two Orthodox Jewish women who fall in love, since they're due back at Quatrefoil on Saturday. Saturday is also when I'm taking a workshop on face-to-face selling techniques for artists from Springboard for the Arts and I'm going to see a production of "The Haunting of Hill House" at Hill House, a historic museum in St. Paul. Next week, I'll be reading at Kieran's Irish Pub for Wordbrew 6 so I also need to prep for that.
Day job just canceled everyone's layoffs, not just my department, so there's a lively combination of mixed feels since people had made a bunch of life plans assuming they were getting severance packages and now are not. Fun times.
Onward and outward.
I'm getting a bunch of stuff done for my new anthology, Scourge of the Seas of Time (and Space). Blurbs are in, cover is almost done, interior is done, announcements and review copies are flying out the door. I'm pretty anxious about the cost for this one, since it's the most expensive book so far and table sales notwithstanding, book sales for the Press have been in the toilet for two months now. But hopefully this book will do well and give some of the others a boost. Not getting much writing done, which probably isn't helping, but I'm hoping to dig back in very soon here. My goal is to have a draft of Blood Moon done by the beginning of December. We'll see.
I'm going to try and take most of tonight off and watch "I am Not Your Negro," a documentary about James Baldwin, and "Disobedience," a film about two Orthodox Jewish women who fall in love, since they're due back at Quatrefoil on Saturday. Saturday is also when I'm taking a workshop on face-to-face selling techniques for artists from Springboard for the Arts and I'm going to see a production of "The Haunting of Hill House" at Hill House, a historic museum in St. Paul. Next week, I'll be reading at Kieran's Irish Pub for Wordbrew 6 so I also need to prep for that.
Day job just canceled everyone's layoffs, not just my department, so there's a lively combination of mixed feels since people had made a bunch of life plans assuming they were getting severance packages and now are not. Fun times.
Onward and outward.