This Still Isn't a Blog Post

Look, I've been sick. I did something to my back (okay, not "something," I was typing in bed in a weird position and my back started to scream), so I took an Advil and got grossly sick (nausea, asthma, head cold, and back pain all at once–did you ever try to throw up while blowing your nose and gasping for breath?), and then the next day, while I was still coming back from being sick, the back pain got worse, so I thought, "No more ibuprofen," and took an Excedrin and the same damn thing happened. Meanwhile, I still haven't gotten the questions up for The Circular Staircase Gothic Bookclub which should be interesting because the heroine is a snotty, elitist racist (I may never do historical surveys again), we did Weekend at Bernie's last night for PopD and that turned out to have no story structure whatsoever which is just annoying (learn to plot, people), and I'm obsessively researching kidney diets for Lyle who is still, inevitably, dying, but hasn't seemed to realize it yet since he's still leaping about like a mountain goat and trying to hump his sister (Lyle has a little Ancient Egyptian in him, it seems). Plus there's the marketing stuff and, oh yeah, I HAVE A BOOK THAT'S NINE MONTHS OVERDUE. And about ten boxes of stuff to mail out. And . . .

I know, you're busy, too. And I don't even have to leave the house to work so how bad can it be? Plus Lani and Alastair keep offering to wait on me hand and foot (I'm the crawl-into-a-cave-and-leave-me-to-die-when-I'm-sick kind of person) and have been running errands for me like mad. Really, I'm the luckiest woman in the world and I know it.

But I've been sick. I'm much better now. Except my back still hurts, possibly because I'm typing in bed again. Will fix that shortly. And Lani brought me pain-killing tea (I was hoping for morphine, but she can't do it all) so I'll try that. But then I have to work on the book, I cannot write a blog post. Although I did want to mention before I forget that Mollie had this scathingly brilliant idea which we are still working out about putting the first chapters of all of my books (including Liz) into a free e-book, and then I thought I could write intros to each one that would make the whole thing sort of a career bio since people ask that stuff all the time. But mostly first chapters. So we'll probably put that out around September.

And that's why I can't write a blog post for awhile. I'm going to go clear off the LaZBoy, drink morphine tea (I can only hope) and try to get Liz out of the mess she's in. She just got arrested by the guy she's been having one night stands with. I think it's going to have a chilling effect on the relationship. Liz is like that. So in the meantime, you just all just talk amongst yourselves. Not that you wouldn't anyway but I like to be supportive. And then I'll be back later in the week with a post that's deeply sensitive and thoughtful. Or pictures of Lyle humping his sister. I'll think of something.

Argh.