First things first—it’s Indie April and I’ve put Bringer of the Scourge on sale through the 15th, on virtually all platforms.
There are hundreds more books for free or very very cheap at the Indie Book Sale, including my little weird adventure fantasy.
There are loads of books on there that I love, including derbyfriends AJ Alexanders, Laura Huie, and Tar Atore! Go get some.
It’s been a long few weeks in the literary trenches.
I had to take a whirlwind road-trip tour back home last week and I feel like I am running just barely ahead of the eight ball this week accordingly. I also have some personal life changes going on (the good kind, but also the most taxing possible kind, for a person with the variety and severity of ADHD that I have)—namely, I’m getting married! Next Saturday! So I don’t lose my health insurance!
For the past eight years, I had health insurance through my partner’s former place of employ (this is basically the single thing that has allowed me to freelance, in this economy). He has changed employers and now “domestic partnership” is not an adequate connection, so we are getting hitched. I asked a good friend if she’d like to be ordained, and she leapt into action; we are making it official.
It’s been sixteen years since my partner and I first got together, and we’ve been engaged for five of those years, so the whole thing is more or less a tiny party we are organizing at a park near my home with light bureaucracy, and, hopefully, boozy slush at the bar around the corner from that park afterward.
The book that is Shepherd continues apace. I am excited and nervous for this book to be out in the wild, especially as it’s presently in the “there are a lot of pieces and not all of them are book-shaped yet” phase which is now quite familiar working terrain for me, after my experiences completing Bringer, which makes me both comfortable and nervous alike.
What if it doesn’t ever stitch together?
And yet, I know from the previous book that this is just a stage these projects will have to go through, and maybe I will get better and faster at getting through them by so doing.
I am starting to get to the point of being on a long project where I am dying to do literally ANYTHING else, and fortunately… I have lots of other things to be doing, and some of them are really exciting. I feel confident I won’t be derailed on getting The Shepherd in Shadow, but I am definitely testing the reliability of my multi-tracking systems this month and next!
Until next time, in sickness and in health, ‘til Hell won’t have it,
—M.
Congrats!!