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Good morning.
Just finished rereading editor’s comments for an anthology I’m in that’s coming in the fall. Some of you will remember Eclipse and the gang from the 2000 CE (superhero) universe. Got a pair of stories about Bolt done, and #2 is in the anthology, so I’ll probably put #1 up for sale at the same time. Not one most of you have read, I don’t think.
Past the one-third mark of Heather 5. Second big chunk rumbling up, but I have blogs and newsletters to write this morning so might not get far on that one. Flip side, I write the erotica on a spare cell phone that got wiped and has no sim card, so I can take it anywhere and bang out words. About 6k into #5. And next week we’ll figure out if I just start publishing those or hold them for a new magazine.
Two newsletters after this, so please don’t scream if I show up in your inbox a whole bunch today, okay? 🙂 First of the month is both personal newsletter and I have two magazines so I trail each publication by 30 days to let them settle and generate a bump. Plus, Sloan Webber has a story in the coming issue of BSQ and it’s sequel is coming tomorrow in your inbox if you’re on the story tier. (Rest of you won’t see it for a LONG time.)
Health was a little yuck in June. Nothing bad but a string of little things that left me perpetually exhausted and emotionally wrung out, so I’m hoping that July turns into something a lot less trying. More words, more worlds. Probably a couple of weeks to wrap up Heather, then we’re off.
Farm News: Have had an enormous harvest of cherries this year. Put 8 pounds into the freezer last night, on top of 3-4 more pounds harvested to be eaten yesterday. Last week, Chef Bryan came out for several more pounds. I’ll probably still end up leaving 30 pounds on the trees at this point, to fall and rot and get eaten by critters.
When Bry was here, we talked about whiskey, so I put some Mexican ground corn in the carboy with brown sugar and have watched it bubble all week, where I can turn it into whiskey at some point. That and half the cherries turned into wine and then brandy are going to be fun in July/August.
But I’m a redneck and you knew that.
Hope your summer continues to be amazing.
Oh: WORLD CON IS IN SEATTLE in August. Knight Errant (A’Zedi Survey Corps, Book One) is out. I will have a paper edition (it is sitting on my left on my desk). If I Tuckerized you into that book (just about everyone I got permission from at this point, saving a couple), and you will be in the Seattle area (WorldCon or any other reason), I would like to get you to sign my copy. And I’ll sign yours.
Mark your calendars. I’ll also be in Vegas for AuthorNation in November, and am talking to the folks at Superstars for February. Hoping to make it to Minneapolis in December for family holiday, but that’s not nailed down yet.
Also happy to road trip to Portland to see you, but not any greater distance than that or Spokane or the Canadian border going north. You let me know.
More erotica in the background. If you wanna first read it, lemme know. If you write erotica or know folks who do, I suspect we’ll give serious talk to starting a Syndicate Magazine at some point, so we’ll be talking and recruiting. Film at 11, as it were.
Past that, y’all have a lovely Tuesday.
shade and sweet water,
b
West of the Mountains, WA
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