catherineldf | Updatey things, new year... (Reply)

The year has begun with its usual rush of excitement. The big news is that I do have a new job and I start it next week. The timing is good in that we are now mostly coasting on savings (buy a book! Or a fancy box!) until money starts coming in again next month. But we can actually do that, so still not dire, though support is much appreciated and helpful.

This week I went to:

A Midwest Independent Publishers Association meeting for a presentation on video marketing.
A talk on green burials in Minnesota at the Seward Co-op.
Third Thursday at the MIA (local art museum invites in a bunch of musicians and artists and other creative folks)
Burned the midnight oil (literally) to get a story completed and turned in during a short extension period. Fingers crossed! It's another Sherlock Holmes story so if gets accepted, it will be my second one for this year. It's a Holmes and Mrs/ Hudson story so we'll see how it flies.
Finished another story which I'll be doing a final pass on before submitting tomorrow.
Saw the cover and the TOC for the forthcoming Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives edited by John Linwood Grant (Belanger Books), which will include my story "The Rani's Dream."
Did a bunch of Queen of Swords Press 3rd Birthday Party planning for next Saturday (1/25), including dropping books off at The Irreverent Bookworm in Minneapolis. The big news is that Elise Matthesen will making a glorious thing for the prize drawing - it is sure to be amazing! But you do need to show up to enter, so see you there if you can make it.
We now own a handtruck that converts being a cart.
By some miracle, even though we are mid-blizzard and I waited until this afternoon to ask, the guy we call when snow gets really bad said he could fit us in tomorrow.

Now to watch Antonia's Line, which I haven't seen in forever and rest my elbows so they stop screaming from some of my recent more strenuous activities.