Report from the literary trenches

The Mazama Book Festival was amazing - everything an author hopes a book fest will be and everything a reader dreams a literary weekend could be. Truly first class and smart and fun and I highly recommend all you Pacific NW types to attend next year. I'll also be reviewing the books written by some of the authors in upcoming columns and blogging a bit about them here, so you will hear more.

I have had company. Again. Company is wonderful and great and important but not very conducive to getting writing done. At all. So while the September column is done and the house-book feature is written and submitted and I got the Booklist reviews written in the car (I'm not kidding), there is still so much more to do! I'm cramming on my October column and actually have two books read for November that require reviews as well but what I need to be doing is writing my book.

BIG time.

This summer has put me months behind which is frustrating and annoying and I can't help but think about how frustrated and annoyed I am by all I need to do. (Plus I need to clean my refrigerator. REALLY bad.) So right now, from where I'm at, the world is full of notes and writing and ideas. I hope you will humor me while I'm knee deep in all this. I'm not taking a blog break - I'm just trying to keep my head above water on all I need to do. (Plus - the Company!!!!!) My routine should return by next weekend when the house is empty again. My goal is to have the reviews written for Oct and Nov for books I've read so I can access where I'm at and some more writing on the the WIP to be accomplished.

(This has to be the most boring blog post ever. I'm sure I'm breaking every rule of how to keep readers coming back to your blog with this post.)

I would tell you what I'm reading but the stack is huge. I have the attention span of a gnat lately. It has been one crazy literary summer.