Tomorrow is the 15th!

RESURRECTION CODE comes out tomorrow! Gah!

I spent a good portion of yesterday writing my "Big Idea" blog for Scalzi's WHATEVER. As I posted on FB, I'm not entirely sure how "Satan's quest for justice from an unfair God, and the transgendered identity of the universe" is going to play in Peoria. (The above was the phrase I used when describing it to Scalzi in my query e-mail.) On the flip side, I also decided that I have nothing to loose by being out there and bold. Sometimes making a few waves can be good publicity.

We'll see what he has to say about it. I handed it in a week early because I wanted Scalzi to have a chance to comment on it and have me revise it, if I'm too scattered (totally possible) or he doesn't really want me to hang all the way out in public, as it were (less likely).

So... fingers crossed.

I think I managed to be provocative, yet funny as well as "big idea"-y, yet personal. I looked back at some of the recent "big idea" essays and didn't find them quite as, shall we say, controversial as what I planned to talk about. But I think I got the general TONE of their peices into mine, which is to say, kind of chatty and informal without blathering. I managed to keep it relatively short -- about 700 words -- almost right in between the required 500 - 1,000 word length.

Can you tell I'm deeply nervous about this???

And, btw, thanks to all of you who pushed me to query "Big Idea." Even if this is a complete bust, it's been a challenging experience, and, as my Dark Side Sith Master always told me, "If you're not just a little scared, you're not really living up to your potential."

And, my other freak out about tomorrow's date is that it also means I have EXACTLY one month to finish Tate's #3 vampire princess book. Technically, I'm somewhere in the late middle, but I find I write the majority of the book in this crunch time.

Fingers crossed. Again.

Otherwise, the weekend was a lot of fun. Mason had his last swim class. He did not pass up to level 3, but, as this is a Red Cross certified deal, I'm not terribly surprised. He's a good swimmer with a lot of strokes, but not entirely confident with others. But now we're going to have all spring and summer to practice. We could sign him up for the next session, but we've discovered that his big swimming break-throughs tend to be when he's on his own (not literally, of course, but as in outside of class.)

I also attended a St. Patrick's day party on Sunday. That was fun, though I didn't stay terribly long because I'd left Mason and Shawn at home this time. I got to see some people whose company I really enjoy and met/re-met some people I don't see on a regular basis. There was corned beef and fixins' (nom. nom.) and probably some excellent beer and such, but I'm such a lightweight when it comes to alcohol that I stuck to pop.

Well, I should go have a little lunch, as we say here in Minnesota, and get head down over my keyboard.