While trying to hit deadlines, little chores fall by the wayside, but today I need to get a few of them done, regardless. Work schedule changes aren’t quite going the way I want them to, but I’m going to continue playing around with it, because I really like getting home closer to dinnertime than, you know, ten or eleven at night. Delivering in sunlight is slightly less stressful than delivering after dark.

News:

Nothing this week.

Works in Progress:

I don’t think I’m going to make it through both editing rounds on Never & Forever (Meridian 8) before the end of the month, but I’m still going to try to get it done as soon as possible. I’ve cut almost 25K words from the manuscript, which means the second round will go a lot faster.

It’s frustrating, though, because I’m cutting a lot here at the end, and I remember how much I didn’t like how long the story was and how much I wanted to reach the end. But I made so much extra work for myself. I couldn’t know that then, but it would be nice if I could figure out how to write less to begin with. Most of it is just figuring out how to bridge from one part to another.

Once this is done, I need to get A Nightmare for All Seasons ready to publish, then I need to work on written and video promo for In the Dollhouse We All Wait, which will be available for preorder soon.

Books I’m Reading:

Raising Loki: A Memoir by Elliot Manarin
The Shining by Stephen King
Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

Things I’m Listening To:

Delain
Tina Guo
Billie Eilish
Elise Testone
Donna Missal
Let’s Hear It for the Girls playlist

Things I’m Watching:

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
Ghosts (US) series
Goosebumps (original) series
Watson series
Will Trent series
Tracker series
CSI: Miami series
Home Town series

Poem of the Week: (throwback to February 2023)

heads bowed low
knees scraped and
bruised blue during
this darkest rein
of heinous crimes
and torturous ends
spread rose petals
at a monarch’s feet
at darkest night
for divine right