Shannon

“SPRINKLES, huh?” he said. “It’s been that hard, huh?” he said.

Mark and I are both going through Our Lady of the Islands, looking for places to add “glosses” of things, like more tropical flavor, or details about the politics of previous books that are tangentially relevant here, and stuff like that. And no, it’s not done yet–just a few more scenes to rewrite–but Brilliant Editor

He swears the shirt just came up in the rotation today, but I think it’s a commentary on the state of things around here… Anyway, yeah. Revising. It’s what’s happening. And–while the book is very consuming, it’ll be done soon, and actually, I need work. Do you need a proofreader, a copy editor? An editor,

In the process of building the new deck, a few garden-things got tromped on (like the strawberries), or removed (like the lovely but MESSY and totally in the way camellia tree), or…crudely and abusively relocated. Like a bed of irises just under the overhang of the old deck. They got dug up, tossed into a

Writing and writing and writing and writing and writing and writing continues. I had this fantasy that when we finally got home, we would be able to…I don’t know? Have some leisure time and see friends and stuff? I am missing my friends. I am missing so many of my friends. Well maybe I am

We actually did make it out to the World Horror hotel, briefly; had lunch with my friend Scott from San Francisco (we were in a marvelous crit group together, I still miss them all) and saw a few other friends. So, I feel less fail about that. 🙂 And the visit with Mrs. Innkeeper was

Yes, yes, I know World Horror is in town…RIGHT HERE in town…and I have friends from near and far who are there, who I’d really hoped to see…but…but…we just couldn’t get ourselves to a place where we could go out and even just BarCon it this evening like we’d intended to. It’s been kind of

It was a day for staying in, for getting work done…Mark and I continue to work on Our Lady edits, and I’ve got a big proofreading job as well. Yesterday, I got out into the garden a while, and also rode my bike to the gym, but today? I took a bag of recycling out

Mark’s mom left yesterday; we saw her safely onto a plane, or, well, as close as you can get these days. She made it home safely, anyway. 🙂 And since she left it has been workity-work-work around here! Our Lady is still not done…probably another week or so. Then we only have ninety jllion more

We’ve had a busy weekend around here…family business on Saturday, all day; and today we got lots of stuff done, and made (and ate) a few meals, and visited with Mark’s mother, and…lost Monopoly. Well, two of us lost Monopoly. One of us won Monopoly. Those are all Mark’s hotels. Once that happened, it wasn’t