Monday, December 5, 2011

Monday Miscellany: New Release & Housekeeping

Over the weekend, I released Please, Sir. (You can get it at Amazon or you can get it for free at Smashwords with coupon code NV22M until tomorrow.) I started pre-writing for the next project and realized that it's much bigger than I want to deal with right now. As in, it might possibly be a novel. So I set it aside and looked at the short story collection I wanted to write.

And then I realized that my sister will be here in a week and the house isn't ready for her and I have a professional to-do list that is several pages long. So I've decided to take the next few days--maybe even the whole week--off from "real" writing to do housekeeping things.

Things like rearranging my daughter's room so that it's more usable for a college student, doing the rest of the autumn deep clean, and hauling the toys the kid has outgrown down to my storage unit. Things like the website redesign I want to do, a bunch of blog posts for days I don't have time to write new ones, and cleaning up my currently-available work (including reworking summaries and tweaking covers as needed).

Today, I'm running errands and getting back into the habit of daily chores. I let the housework slip over the last few months while I worked so hard to reach my goal of four books available by Christmas. I have some paperwork to take care of, the mail to check, a friend to see... Real life stuff.

It's going to be weird to be out in the sunshine and breathe in fresh air, but I think I'll survive it.

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