Between bouts of severe facial pain and whinging about better dental plans and the rare moments when the wisdom tooth is actually handing over some gold, I’ve been working.

A lot.

I have the greatest job ever! A client sent a set of three novels for editing, which I gladly took on since another client had postponed his work until April. Then all heck breaks loose with the computer – again – so I snag the first file, get it printed and edit on the hard copy. Yes, I hate to do it that way because it takes double the time. Of course, in the meantime we find out about the RAM and blah blah blah. So, finally I get to transcribing the edits and come to find out the email isn’t working so well. I think I’ve discovered the problem, though. I’ve got several other accounts tied to my main email account. When I went back to using an account abandoned previously, everything went smoothly again.

This author, who I can not name just now, has written a fabulous world. Beyond the regular apocalypse stuff, this is stuff I wish I could do. This is stuff I wish there was more of, so the less-than-mediocre apocalypse tropes would vanish.

Also, another client grabbed me on my way past and said HEY I NEED THIS DONE RIGHT NOW (yes, in caps… okay not really, but this is my blog and I can embellish) with a small formatting job. Being me, I read while I was formatting and caught some little things here and there. An amazing little YA adventure that I’m looking forward to seeing in print, and I really hope the author does more.

I’m finding the more editing I do, for this current client and others as well as Belfire, the more quality writing pulls me into the worlds rather than sets me outside of it. Sometimes the writer just needs that little bit of help to pull a thread and then – POW – everything pops.

So, yeah. I’m still riding the high of a compliment passed on by the author, for a job well done. Seriously though, he made it easy with this world; you all are going to be gobsmacked and glued to your book/Kindle/Nook/Kobo/etc.

I’ve also been fiddling away on my own stuff, Lughnasadh is just about ready for the pre-reader, and Mabon is close behind. I read some pretty dull, low-star reviews of Yule before I stopped to think – these folks missed the point. The chapbooks are for young families new to paganism, not single adults without children. I am taking several of their comments into consideration though, and have added notes for the print version. Not to mention a suggestion sent to me by a reader that seriously smacked me in the face with the “D’oh!” stick.

I haven’t written these chapbooks with options for single parents.

I was floored. As a single parent myself, I should have done an option. I should have thought of it. For whatever reason, it just didn’t occur to me, when I translated the rituals from the Glas Celli BoS, it just made sense to me, to do them as I have done. When I mentioned this to the girls, they looked at me all weird. At home, outside of Glas Celli, we perform the rituals as a single-parent family. I take on both mother and father, priestess and priest – when our rituals require both.

I feel like such a ‘tard. So, another note has been added to the ever-growing list of things to make better for the print edition. Single parent and same-sex parent families will like it! Or so I like to think, anyway.

Probably it for this week, so… have a good’un and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do. Which isn’t much, so you’ve got options. <|;^) And how about this option? If you're on the Facebook thing, stop by Belfire's I Love to Read Month Giveaway Event and sign up! It's free, and you could win free stuff. Lots of free stuff. And this time I'm not joking!

 

<3 JL

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Belfire just released the first in the new series from KV Taylor, The Family: Liam. As much as I loved her first novel with us (Scripped, 2011) I am SO in love with Liam and Gianni that I can not wait for K. to get the next one submitted!