balancing act

Anybody Wanna Go to Work for Me?

Anybody Wanna Go to Work for Me?

I love my job and I want to keep it, but the more books I put out, the more I want to put out. I could put…oh, eight or so books out tomorrow if I were willing to do it with them full of mistakes and badly in need of polish. But, of course, I’m not […]

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I Love My Job

That’s not sarcasm. I’m happy to say that I do indeed love my job. It’s the hours I hate. I’m not a morning person. The best job, timing-wise, I ever had was the one where I got up at noon, wandered into work at two in the afternoon, and made it home by one a.m.

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Needed: Jumper Cables

Needed: Jumper Cables

So you might have noticed I’m not blogging lately. Know what else I’m not doing? Writing. Not editing, planning, plotting, researching (random research doesn’t count), or brainstorming either. I hate it. I feel…dead. Worse. I feel undead. Zombie horde, I am in you! Grrr! Argh! *cough* So anyway. When I’m not writing I’m here (for a

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Them Goal Thingummies

Them Goal Thingummies

I asked for it, didn’t I? And I know you people. You’re just sitting out there with your weapons of choice, waiting for me to muck it up and forget so you can poke me. You want to take out your hungover 2011-sucks-so-far misery on me. Well, suck it up, lovelies, because I’m not giving

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Time-wasters and Other Things

Time-wasters and Other Things

The last few days I’ve been learning things on the blog of the awesome Marian Schembari. (If you like the Twitter and Facebook buttons, or the threaded comments, or the pic in my About page, be sure to thank her.) One of her suggestions is to have a look at what I’m tweeting about, and

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Busy, Busy

Busy, Busy

I am not complaining. This is an utterly wonderful thing I am doing, and I have great hopes that all my work now will pay off later. I am not complaining. At all. But wow! There sure is a lot of work wrapped up in this project! I’ve been poking at the cover, trying to

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Life, Joomla!, and Madness

Life, Joomla!, and Madness

Last night was the first time I guided a tour through Valley of the Moon. It was, in a word, incredible. The tour guide, I finally realized, is The One that can most make or break a show. Every actor is important, and adds to the success of an awesome show, but the tour guide

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