Since I’ve been back from the coast, I’ve been pretty steadily focused down on keeping all my novels and short stories in the mail. One rejection comes back, one query or story goes out. I’m having to move from a more nebulous tracking system to something more systematic, like a spreadsheet, for the first time ever. I pronounce this a good development.
I did run myself into a wall of busy and have taken a few days off my regular writing. It’s time to get back to it. I have the start of a strange western hybrid, a sort of Firefly-flavored bounty hunter story. Since as usual I have no clue what’s going to happen yet, I’m excited to see where it will go.
I’m also neck-deep in reading for the upcoming Mystery workshop in May. My bookmark is somewhere around page 155 of Michael Connelly’s The Black Echo, which I’m enjoying the hell out of.
Other, non-reading happinesses:
1. The new season of In Plain Sight. This show hooked me half way through last season and hasn’t let go yet. Witness Protection marshals, you rock.
2. King Arthur Flour’s new gluten-free cake mixes. I’ll be making a couple of these in the next week for birthdays — mine and several folks in my immediate family (a ton of April birthdays).
3. The catalog that came with the King Arthur Flour cake mixes, from which I’m going to choose some really frivolous seeming birthday gift. Fun! In the kitchen!
4. The new Runaways movie opens in my town this weekend, and Sunday is popcorn in the dark with Joan Jett day. I can hardly wait.
Happiness!
