The Long Week Of Crazy

I meant to blog this week, honestly. It was on my schedule and everything. Lots of things were on my to-do list this week and fell off in the hurly burly of life.

Good News: I rescued data from my hard drive! All by myself! I feel all kinds of geeky and powerful about this so let's ignore the fact that it required nothing more than the right kind of cable and the ability to plug a USB cable in. But whatever. I didn't need to pay some other geek $300 to rescue my data and that's what matters.

More Good News: Heroes and Villains Book 2 is with the last beta tonight for a final check over the new ending. My wonderful editor at Breathless Press is aware that edits are happening and is eagerly awaiting the new book. Exciting!

Other Good News: I have the final round of edits back for the anthology short story and it looks really good. You're going to love this universe!

Finding Time To Breath

They say stress weakens the immune system, which may explain why I fell victim to a cold that won't go away. Between the computer failures (now fixed! I'm up and running again!) and illness I feel like a zombie.It's been a crazy couple of weeks. There's a lot going on behind the scenes right now with edits and planning and new books that I probably shouldn't talk about on the blog.

There's a lot going on at home too. If you've never taken four kids to the beach before I'm not sure I can explain the chaos of summer break with children. There's a strategy to making summer work right. Sunscreen needs applying at regular intervals, children need to eat more than popsicles no matter what the pre-schooler says, and I need to find out what the local laws are for tasers because the surfers were checking out my ten-year-old and I'm not ready for that. Really not ready. Soooooo not ready. She was in tears because some boy from school didn't call this weekend and my eyes just started twitching.

An all-girls Catholic boarding school with barefoot nuns in the Swiss Alps is not out of the question at the moment. Don't look at me like that! She's still in grade school! Grade school is too young for this nonsense.

*sigh*

I'm so not ready for the kids to grow up. Time keeps speeding by for me and it feels like I'm missing so much because I can't do everything at once. I need to take time to breath. Time to stop and smell the flowers, walk in the garden, float down the river listening to the bird's sing. The warm weather is finally here and I can't wait to go play outside!

"You're the author aren't you?"

Fedex guy came twice today (sorry!). He brought me computers. Beautiful, wonderful, I-can't-live-without-them computers that will make it possible for me to have a working computer and a keyboard where all the letters work! Isn't that exciting?

Even more exciting was the Fedex guy looking at the computer parts and at me.

"My hard drive died," I blurted out.

Compassionate understanding lit his eyes. "That's horrible. You're the author, aren't you?"

I was a little stunned, but very gratified, and then by bookish nature took over and we had a five minute conversation about sci-fi, what I'm writing, and why he might like EVEN VILLAINS FALL IN LOVE. Because I'm that kind of person. Give me even the slightest hint that you know how to read and I will talk books for hours. HOURS. It's an addiction. There is no cure. I love books.

But, guys, someone recognized me as an author! Like, someone I'm not related to and who I don't pester ten times a day on Twitter to like my books! (Not that I promote that much on Twitter, but still.) I'm so excited!

And I'm also buried in computer parts. Please bear with me as I make the switch and get the new computer up and running. The blog will probably be silent for the weekend. It's okay. I still love you. But I've got to synch up everything, install all the new programs, and get the synopsis for Heroes and Villains Book 2 done and to my editor so we can get this book published this year.

Admit, that's the best news you've had all day. More books for everyone!