Surfacing briefly to assure you that yes, I am still here…
… just currently involved in some things that are taking a lot of work and attention…
And for some reason WordPress has stopped automatically emailing me when a comment is posted here! If you posted, and wondered if I would ever reply, this is why that’s been delayed.
Fussing with the WordPress settings… I blame it on the same update that inserted quirky extraneous characters in all my previous posts (which I still have to go through and clean up by hand).
And now, of course, everything has to stop for:
TAXES!
My taxes being particularly bizarre, with different income streams and business deductions. It’s a chore, but thank goodness for tax software!
(If you’re thinking of suggesting that I get them done professionally: the amount of time it would take me to explain to a professional exactly what’s going on, and sort out all the receipts and expenses, is about the same as the time it would take for me to do it myself with the software. So.)
In other news:,my sales have been up for the last couple of months, due to some lovely reviews and endorsements, by:
Janny Wurts: You know how people who don’t know anything about publishing, and who meet an author, will inevitably ask: “So, did you paint the cover yourself?” Causing the author to laugh long and hard and say “Hell, no!” Janny Wurts is the only SF/F author who says “Why, yes I did!” Seriously. Go look at her website. (And then buy her books… and there are lots of them, so you’re not likely to run out! — I just bought The Curse of the Mistwraith.)
Blaise Anaconda at Under the Radar SFF Books : A really nice review, and I do appreciate his avoiding any spoilers, while pointing out some attractions. Warmed the cockles of my heart…
Max Gladstone: Max wrote quite a detailed analysis of The Steerswoman, and I found it very interesting! You heard me rave about This is How You Lose the Time War, which he wrote with Amal el-Mohtar. His latest, Last Exit, is getting some great reviews, and is now in my stack of books to read.
Twitter is the place where I hear about these things. My source of news in the SF/F world in general, actually.
Meanwhile, it’s gone past 1AM, and I should have been working, y’all! Or reading research. Lots of research recently…
Hm. Missed blogging both February and March. (This knuckling down better pay off…)
More later.
