9:45 pm., and just finished last major deadline, sending a revised pitch for a novella to George. I’ve had 5 or so days of working straight through morning to night, mostly catching up on stuff that start-of-semester and e-learning put me behind on, and I am TIRED. I have a doctor’s appt. in the morning […]
[Hey, I came up with a joke. I never do that. Warning, stereotypical Asian joke ahead.] Me: She’s so accomplished and ambitious, a total type A. Asian mom jumps into conversation: Why not Type A+?
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Wrote three pitches for Choice of Games — it’ll be interesting to see if they go for any of them. If they do, it’ll be like the writing I did for the two choose-your-own-adventure erotica novels I wrote for Penguin Books (Kathryn in the City, The Classics Professor) way back when, but designed to be
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So, you may remember that my original plan for the writing shed was to keep it spare and functional, like a monk’s cell, so I could focus on writing. Well, it turns out that if I’m too cold or too hot, I can’t focus on writing, so the shed needed curtains and a heater and
Kandasamys: The Wedding was pretty good — everyone’s a little caricatured, but that’s typical for this style of movie, I think. And I’m now really enjoying Masaba, Masaba — contemporary show about Bombay fashion designer whose life is falling apart, with a fading starlet mother. Very of-the-moment, with lots of Instagramming and such. Strong acting,
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Drizzly but not cold this morning, which is pretty much my favorite weather. Made me miss the Bay Area, where we had three solid months of this, January to March. We might try to retire there, in a decade or two. Housing prices, though! Mostly working on teaching stuff today, though hoping to get back
Heh heh heh. I am writing a Bertie Wooster-ish character for this next Wild Cards story, but I am making him bi and poly, so it’s sort of Bertie Wooster crossed with Captain Jack, and I think I’m in love.
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Good morning so far — about an hour of light gardening, then a couple hours dealing with some work e-mails I’d been avoiding. Paused work to jump on the treadmill for 20 minutes, then eat a little lunch — in the process, had an idea for one of the novels, which I’ve just jotted down
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Mascot paid me! Mascot is my hybrid publisher for the cookbook — they handle book distribution through Ingram, Baker & Taylor, and Amazon. We started taking pre-orders in January or so, I think, so this is about 8 months in, and is the first real check; they have to collect the money from those places
A little mask-sewing this morning. This fabric is SO PRETTY. It just makes me happy. I think I need a dress out of it at some point. So far today, I’ve: – dealt with some e-mails (oh, so many more to deal with), – checked in with my students on Slack and answered some questions
