Writing/Editing/Reading Update, April Edition

Business continued picking up through April, so much so that now I'm pretty much at the same level as I was before everything went awry. I'm booked solid through about mid-July, then August looks pretty full, and I've got one or two potential gigs lined up every month through the end of the year. Ah, …

Writing/Editing/Reading Update, March Edition

March was in like a lamb, out like a lion this year. We started the month with no snow, just brown grass and last fall's unraked leaves for ground cover. Then, in the last week, in just a day or two, it seemed like we got almost as much snow as we had the whole …

Writing/Editing/Reading Update, February Edition

Even with an extra day, February went by too fast. I didn't get enough stuff done even though I had little freelance work on my plate, which is an ongoing problem, as technical glitches had resulted in queries from potential clients coming to a near standstill. I seem to have gotten everything sorted, so I …

Writing/Editing/Reading Update, January Edition

January has come and gone already, and I charged into the new year eager to get a lot done. Meanwhile, Minnesota's oddly mild winter—I'm not complaining!—continues. We've only had to get the driveway plowed once. And where last year we had to hire a guy to come steam away a foot-tall ice dam on the …

Writing/Editing/Reading Update, December Edition

December was its usual blur of gift buying and exchanging. Both my wife and daughter have December birthdays and we celebrate Christmas, so it's a lot. My work schedule was in flux, looking like I was going to be overloaded until some projects dropped out, so I took on another project as a replacement, which …

Writing/Editing/Reading Update, November Edition

November was a busy writing month. I think I got more done on various long-languishing projects in the last few weeks than in the last several months. Or years. I just decided that, dammit, I need to jumpstart three books I've planned to self-publish through my Stuck in the Middle Press, some of them having …

Writing/Editing/Reading Update, October Edition

October was about eight days long in my perception, because in some ways it feels like I only got about that many days' worth of work done! On the one hand, I know I was busy, but looking at the updates below, it's like "What the heck was I doing all month?" Then, on the …

Writing/Editing/Reading Update, September Edition

September has been its regular "holy crap, look at all the summer projects I didn't do" month. I did, however, put up three more bookshelves in my office to better display books I'm published in as well as a smattering of the hundreds of books I've worked on editorially. Other than that . . . …

Writing/Editing/Reading Update, July Edition

July brought the annual Shore Leave convention outside of Baltimore, number 43 to be exact. I attended as a writer guest, and Ella tagged along as usual. We got to see a bunch of our friends, a few of whom we haven't seen in several years, making it a very special weekend indeed. I alway …

Writing/Editing/Reading Update, June Edition

It boggles my mind how much writers are taken for granted and treated as if they don't deserve compensation for their hard work. Writers are creating movies and TV series that make corporations millions, in some cases billions, of dollars. But those same corporations, that rely on writers for that content, keep cutting away at …