There’s a whirlwind in my life, kicking up the dust and scattering bits of notes and paper and paper cups and lunch wrappers everywhere.

Yeah, that’s the dust devil. He lives here now, I assume, since I heard him snoring in the closet on Friday night…or should I say, early Saturday morning. I’ve known drunks that can stumble through a house with less noise than that devil. Sure, there were things flying all over the living room and kitchen as he made his way to the closet, but damn… maybe it was all the beer bottles he’d picked up across the way.

Anyway, metaphorically speaking of course, my life has become barely constrained chaos in the last months and I want to apologize for the lack of postings about nothing, the lack of comments on others’ blogs (I miss ya’ll… ) and lack of twitter/facebook/myspace/yourspace/goodreads/meez/blah blah blah presence.

I’m currently formatting CM for e-book mode, wrapping up things on Church Street, doing business end (heehee I said end) work, promotions, and editing for two clients besides. I’ve picked up two other clients in the design/editing arenas but thankfully those are later in the year. Lastly, I’ve been reading the initial submissions for both Belfire Press and TNBP.

Somewhere in there I went to the bathroom and made another pot of coffee or fifty.

I have taken a few breaks lately to stop by Pogo, and the crazy guys from Skullvines Press’ new forum and occasionally stop by Choate Road and Graveside Tales as well. The problem is, I’m doing mostly promotions when I do, and missing out on whatever’s going on.

A blanket congratulations to everyone with accepted stories or novels in the last two months, and a blanket hug and better luck next time to those who had stories rejected. Big blanket thank-yous to people that bought Courting Morpheus from whatever venue you chose to do so, and thanks again to those who had ordered the hardcover but were disappointed because we canceled it. I still hope the offer was good enough to assuage some of the disappointment!

Speaking of Courting Morpheus – thank you to Amy Grech who gave us a five-star rating at Goodreads! *happydance*

Also, somewhere in there I became an official auntie, and I’m horrified to see I didn’t mention it here. Someday, Bella will have to forgive me… My youngest brother, Jordan (he of the masterful PR and marketing for Belfire/TNBP) and his friend Ashley had a baby girl, Isabella Marie, in February. While on his way to see his new daughter, Jordan was in a really, really bad car accident – but stubborn youngster that he is, he signed himself out of the hospital at the first opportunity, and continued on to see Bella. He’s doing physio-therapy twice a week and sees the neuro-doc in May. Hopefully his “hump” arm will get near-full function again, if not full. BTW – he’d meant to say gimp arm, not hump arm, and now it’s kinda stuck.

I am working through the mountain of slush reading, and edits for clients, so while all that is going on, I will be pretty quiet. Hope ya’ll understand, and I know you will – I caught up some on blogs and I know most of you are in just about the same situations! o_O

It must be spring…