As I’ve observed many times, editing never ends. At some point they drag the manuscript out of your limp, exhausted hands, and you weep with relief but also that you were going to fix that one…last…THING… I am, as has become my habit and I hate it, past deadline. Naturally this is tempting me to […]
Hey, look, it hasn’t been a month since my last post! Can’t believe it’s really truly back to school already, but yesterday we had a Meet the Teacher event. Tomorrow the students come back. But I’m holding it together. I’m actually doing better than I’ve done in a long time at existing outside of work
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Back in February, I sent my kid off to volunteer for the Humane Society. She loved doing it, and I loved getting her out of the house and doing something remotely healthy. But it backfired on me, because she came home with a dog. (Okay, maybe I actually signed the papers, but you don’t understand.
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So remember when I said I was taking Human Origins and Pre-history? They canceled it. The day before the semester started, I got a call that it was canceled. At midnight that night I would be withdrawn from it, so on the first day of the semester I could sign up for something else. Thanks,
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I like to keep things moving. So despite the fact that I’m putting a book out November 1st (the first book in Hiro’s trilogy, buy early and often!) the fact that I work full time and I’m a single mom to a really special needy high maintenance teenager, that I’m starting an anthropology class next
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Y’all need to buy more books. No, you have to understand. I want to move into a larger place and foster kittens from the Humane Society, so y’all need to buy more books. See? Kittens! Just like these! Think of the kittens! You wouldn’t want a perfectly nice cat taking up with the wrong sort
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Some days, you don’t wanna do sh-t. Well, maybe you don’t have that problem, but I sure do. And because that’s how my brain works, odds are good I’m going to have one of those days on a day I must not give in. Like, you know…today. I have a book coming out Monday. I
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