catherineldf | Weekly Accountability Post, Part the 4th (Reply)

It has been a full and lively week! Again. In theory, I have a short term contract starting next week that is scheduled to go on for a few months; in practice, those of you in IT know that there are many hoops to jump through and the pandemic has not improved this so still wrangling the last few things.

I attended Capricon 41, where I was on a fair amount of programming and enjoyed myself. In retrospect, had I know I wasn't going to be able to fall asleep on Saturday night anyway, I should have gone to John Scalzi's D.J. Dance party. Hindsight and all that. Anyway, nice con, would attend again given the opportunity.
I submitted and sold a new story to Heather Rose Jones's LHMPodcast! "The Adventuress" is the latest installment of my stories about pirate Jacquotte Delahaye and her lover, French spy Celeste Girard, in the 17th Century Caribbean. This time around, they go to an English colony called "Willoughbyland" in what is now Surinam and meet up with English spy (and future playwright), Aphra Behn.There are now 4 of these stories and they may want to be a book of their own soon, with the intervals between adventures filled in with more adventures. Contemplating...
Found a stop gap short term insurance plan to get us through the next few months.
Had a nice chat with an engineer from a startup (a genuine venture capital unicorn) in the Bay about a potential gig they are still defining. This is likely to not amount to anything, but it was pleasant and nice to be on someone's radar.
Picked up a new event in May - I'll be on a panel on book and publishing coaching at the Professional Editor's Network meeting. You can hire me for this service, FYI. I'm most useful for explaining publicity, timelines, tech and the publishing process.
Turned in a new interview for Horror Tree's Women in Horror Month celebration and agreed to a new interview with an APA in April.
Worked on publicity for the Press and Blood Moon.
Read submissions and accepted 2 of them - more announcements coming soon!
Worked on taxes, reading next book to be blurbed, participated in an online reading of Aphra Behn's The Rover and did miscellaneous things.
Did enormous amount of paperwork and sundry tasks for ostensible new job.
Did not get to most of what I had hoped to do or planned for.
Did get in some Zoom and other calls with friends, so that was lovely.
Am teaching this Sunday, 2/14, at the Rambo Academy. Join me for In Flagrante Delicto: Writing Effective Sex Scenes! There are multiple classes about writing about sex and reproduction and romance this weekend so worth taking a look at the calendar.

Now to go see what else I get done while the lamb meatloaf cooks and I wait to talk to yet another entity about the job stuff for next week.Then may just crash and watch TV for a for bit.