Back to the weekly accountability posts for a bit...

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It's been a really wild month since my day job ended midMay. My contracting company hasn't been able to place me and their HR is engaged in some shenanigans about health insurance so I am currently between jobs and we are currently "between insurances" since my stop gap ran out last week. I'm currently trying to get us back on the stopgap policy again until I get another option figured out. Added to some other things going on that I am not currently at liberty to discuss and it's a LOT.
 
I'm going to go back to the weekly accountability posts, seeing as I am once more between jobs and all, but I also wanted to do a quick reminder about the Pride StoryBundle, which is still in full swing:

• Pride Month StoryBundle - June 2 - July 1st. Our annual event, this year featuring books by Melissa Scott, Matt Bright, A.J. Fitzwater, Andi C. Buchanan, R.B. Lemberg, Eboni Dunbar, Cecilia Tan, dave ring, Leigh Harlen, Anya DeNiro, Langley Hyde, Heather Rose Jones, J. Scott Coatsworth and Catherine Lundoff and benefiting Rainbow Railroad.
• r/Fantasy Queen of Swords Press Reddit AMA - June 4th online, 24 hour Q&A featuring A.J. Fitzwater, Alex Acks, Rem Wigmore, Jennie Goloboy and me, plus visits from a couple of Scourge of the Seas authors. You can read our comments and posts at the link.
  
• Had a good time at the SFWA Nebula Weekend and enjoyed the programming.
• Edelweiss BookFest. Check out the Editor's Pick video for Queen of Swords Press title The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper by A.J. Fitzwater. This was a pretty good conference and I'll definitely attend again, if possible.I was pretty disappointed in Publisher's Weekly's U.S. Bookfest genre offerings and will skip this one next year.
  
• Onyx Path Virtual Gaming Convention 2021. This was a good panel discussion and an evening well-spent!
• Coming up this week! Twin Cities Lesbian Fiction Book Club - June 16th, 7PM. Discussing Blood Moon with me. This is an invite-only online event, so please let me know if you'd like to attend.
• I'm also doing a queer steampunk discussion on Friday.

I've been doing some odds and ends to bring in some $ while I've been tackling the Month of All the Things, and one of these has included doing a spot of freelancing for Library Journal. I got to interview a bunch of folks at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill about this terrific project they're working on. On the Books is a searchable database of a century of Jim Crow laws, as well as full text of laws that impacted the lives of African American people in North Carolina and a bunch of interesting looking teaching aides. Definitely worth checking out!

I've also been working on a new class and will be starting on building an on demand class this week, submitting more things and wrapping up developmental edits on a book. And job hunting. The summer begins...