I think I spent the last 3 months doing doctor appointments, school preparation, learning about how to help our kid, and dealing with a huge shift in understanding what we can and can’t expect. It’s been a Big Deal. Family stuff has been center stage, all summer. And it needed to be.
Edits and copyedits have been done, along with proposals and planning/plotting/researching future books, and promoting the two summer releases while getting the next book underway. There was vacation time, which I needed in a big way. There was “oh crap all this equipment is dying, replace it, fast” time. Changing anything that impacts the workflow takes adjustment time. Although not nearly as much of an interruption as having the laptop die in the middle of a book right before a deadline, so I’m not whining.
Still, I look back from the point when I sent in Animal Attraction and it seems like a blur and I wonder where the time went. Well, life happened, that’s where it went.
Life is now settled into its new shape, though, and I have a new schedule, and I think it’s going to work well for everybody.
Hope everybody has enjoyed summer and is as ready for fall as I am.
Summer is always busy for me, with three summer reading programs to run, staff vacations to schedule around, and a library full of board teens just wanting to get into trouble. There are changes abounding here too, but most I can’t talk about yet (some I don’t know if they will happen or not yet), but I’m looking forward to things settling down. I’m also looking forward to being able to fix this bloody moniter, I’m currently reading and writing everything upside down. 🙂
I am so ready for fall. Like you, I have no idea where the summer went. Lots of promo, edits, and life stuff, with a week of vacation thrown in there for good measure.
NJ, that pretty well covers it. *g* And now the weather’s cooling off, which is a big relief.