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It has been a week of job rejections and interviews and financial anxiety and other fun stuff. Jana's event at Dancing Bear got canceled due to potential COVID exposure (not ours), so we both had crap Fridays. But today brought better things in the form of a reprint acceptance, a lovely lunch with friends, a nice trip to the farmer's market and some time at Twin Cities Pagan Pride where Michael and Sherry Merriam were kind enough to put out some Queen of Swords Press titles for sale. Everyone had a good day and decent book sales, so good all around.
Other stuff:
  • Submitted another story.
  • Worked on more publicity-related things for Foxhunt and Obviously, Aliens.
  • Met with my intern, Shannon, who's back for the Fall (yay!).
  • Talked to yet more recruiters, had another couple of interviews and applied for multiple jobs. Also, finished a nonIT resume and sent it out a few places.
  • Saw The Legend of Shiang-Chi and liked it.
  • Spent Labor Day in a canning haze - spaghetti sauce, apple sauce and salsa. Then roasted a tray of beets for funzies.
  • Mailed copy of Foxhunt off to the Library of Congress (obligatory when you get a catalogue number).
  • Saw Ladyhawke at the Parkway. Best line from the audience: "But what if she wants to be a hawk?" A question we did not ask in 1985.
  • Went to see "The Unplugging" performed by New Native Theatre. This was an interesting play about two middle-aged women, cast out of their community for being too old and forced to make their way through a post-apocalyptic landscape (after everything has "unplugged"). It was staged in a field in one of the burnt out parts of Lake Street that is not yet being rebuilt and was very well done.
  • Wrote a lengthy Twitter thread about small press finances and, for the first time in 5 years, met our baseline goal for monthly support on Patreon. Thank you, lovely people, for making that happen!
  • Spent time with friends and watched sundry things.
  • Next up: tackling the project backlog.
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It has been a full and lively week! Again. In theory, I have a short term contract starting next week that is scheduled to go on for a few months; in practice, those of you in IT know that there are many hoops to jump through and the pandemic has not improved this so still wrangling the last few things.
  • I attended Capricon 41, where I was on a fair amount of programming and enjoyed myself. In retrospect, had I know I wasn't going to be able to fall asleep on Saturday night anyway, I should have gone to John Scalzi's D.J. Dance party. Hindsight and all that. Anyway, nice con, would attend again given the opportunity.
  • I submitted and sold a new story to Heather Rose Jones's LHMPodcast! "The Adventuress" is the latest installment of my stories about pirate Jacquotte Delahaye and her lover, French spy Celeste Girard, in the 17th Century Caribbean. This time around, they go to an English colony called "Willoughbyland" in what is now Surinam and meet up with English spy (and future playwright), Aphra Behn.There are now 4 of these stories and they may want to be a book of their own soon, with the intervals between adventures filled in with more adventures. Contemplating...
  • Found a stop gap short term insurance plan to get us through the next few months.
  • Had a nice chat with an engineer from a startup (a genuine venture capital unicorn) in the Bay about a potential gig they are still defining. This is likely to not amount to anything, but it was pleasant and nice to be on someone's radar.
  • Picked up a new event in May - I'll be on a panel on book and publishing coaching at the Professional Editor's Network meeting. You can hire me for this service, FYI. I'm most useful for explaining publicity, timelines, tech and the publishing process.
  • Turned in a new interview for Horror Tree's Women in Horror Month celebration and agreed to a new interview with an APA in April.
  • Worked on publicity for the Press and Blood Moon.
  • Read submissions and accepted 2 of them - more announcements coming soon!
  • Worked on taxes, reading next book to be blurbed, participated in an online reading of Aphra Behn's The Rover and did miscellaneous things.
  • Did enormous amount of paperwork and sundry tasks for ostensible new job.
  • Did not get to most of what I had hoped to do or planned for.
  • Did get in some Zoom and other calls with friends, so  that was lovely.
  • Am teaching this Sunday, 2/14, at the Rambo Academy. Join me for In Flagrante Delicto: Writing Effective Sex Scenes! There are multiple classes about writing about sex and reproduction and romance this weekend so worth taking a look at the calendar.
Now to go see what else I get done while the lamb meatloaf cooks and I wait to talk to yet another entity about the job stuff for next week.Then may just crash and watch TV for a for bit.

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