It’s been a rough couple of weeks. Even after my jinxed week, there’s been a huge confluence of stressful things in my life. Two weeks of Jury Duty, copyedits to Desert Spear, finishing Brayan’s Gold (my new young Arlen Messenger novelette), closing on my office studio so Cassie can finally get her own room, rush […]
Word of the Day
Hey all, sorry I’ve been so quiet on the blog lately. In addition to 9 hours a day of jury duty all last week and this, I’ve been proofing 881 pages of Desert Spear copyedits, working on a new Arlen Messenger novellette, trying to close on my new office studio (which I will immediately need […]
Jinxed
Apologies to my mom for all the cursing in this entry, but it’s been an interesting week. Sunday was the Brooklyn Book Festival, which was pretty fun. The weather was perfect, and the festival drew a sizable crowd. There were kids activities and cool swag and semi-celebrities like that guy who played Vizzini and Grand […]
No Longer at This Number
I used to work in medical publishing. If I say so myself, I was pretty good at it. I made decent money, and got a merit-based promotion and raise every year without fail for 10 years. Even the year I got laid off because the company I was working for at the time was tanking, […]
My Precious
So a couple of weeks ago, I was pulling all-nighters every day while working on the second draft of The Desert Spear. I was essentially working till 4am every night, sleeping until the baby woke me up between 6-7, and then going back to sleep until about 10. One morning I hauled myself out of […]