Updates and updatey things
Nov. 6th, 2022 07:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catherineldf5 days after getting the steroid shot in my hip and I'm still pretty achy. It also comes with bonus insomnia, which I've gathered is normal, as my body's urge to shed all the fluids, right NOW. So I'm very tired and still sore, but hoping this week sees some serious relief, hopefully in time for next weekend's 3 day marathon - Twin Cities Con at the Minneapolis Convention Center. I'll have help but it will be brutally long days in a giant echoey space filled with more people than I'm used to these days. Less hip pain would make for a much better weekend so fingers crossed on that score.
Then, of course, I'm teaching Genre Basics for Fiction Writers online for Springboard for the Arts on Tuesday 11/15 and reading at DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis on 11/16. In a rare moment of higher common sense, I cancelled on everything but the essentials as of yesterday afternoon, so this weekend was table prep, laundry, submitting a reprint, cooking meals for Jana when I'm in and out at weird hours, lining up Jana's PCA for weekend coverage, sending in a bio for a forthcoming anthology, working on edits to our books and more.
In other news, I have a new essay up at Ylva Publishing to celebrate the new German translation of Silver Moon too! I love saying that. The translator, Florian Kranz, reached out today to say something nice about the book and I love that part too. :-) Most of the reviews seem pretty positive too.
The new day job contract continues along. I'm pushing for more formal onboarding practices than finding myself on a call and a disembodied voice announcing that something is now my problem, which is mostly how it's been going. I'm getting in some quality Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple time, Miss Scarlet and the Duke time and time spent trying not to freak out about Tuesday. And Twitter, which has generally been a solid platform for meeting people, outreach and marketing and it hurts to lose it to the stupid.
That said, for the sake of anything you care about, please go vote and vote blue. The alternative is terrifying.
Then, of course, I'm teaching Genre Basics for Fiction Writers online for Springboard for the Arts on Tuesday 11/15 and reading at DreamHaven Books in Minneapolis on 11/16. In a rare moment of higher common sense, I cancelled on everything but the essentials as of yesterday afternoon, so this weekend was table prep, laundry, submitting a reprint, cooking meals for Jana when I'm in and out at weird hours, lining up Jana's PCA for weekend coverage, sending in a bio for a forthcoming anthology, working on edits to our books and more.
In other news, I have a new essay up at Ylva Publishing to celebrate the new German translation of Silver Moon too! I love saying that. The translator, Florian Kranz, reached out today to say something nice about the book and I love that part too. :-) Most of the reviews seem pretty positive too.
The new day job contract continues along. I'm pushing for more formal onboarding practices than finding myself on a call and a disembodied voice announcing that something is now my problem, which is mostly how it's been going. I'm getting in some quality Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple time, Miss Scarlet and the Duke time and time spent trying not to freak out about Tuesday. And Twitter, which has generally been a solid platform for meeting people, outreach and marketing and it hurts to lose it to the stupid.
That said, for the sake of anything you care about, please go vote and vote blue. The alternative is terrifying.