My To-Do List Monday

I have a lot to do today. I totally forgot to take some hardcopies of Messiah Node over to Uncle Hugo's these last few weekends, so I'm going to have to make the dreaded trek over to Minneapolis this afternoon once they open and bow and scrape my apologies. (Keep in mind, if you don't have an e-reader, Uncles is still your go-to place for copies of the AngeLINK books. They are selling the last of the essentially "new" copies. I bought them direct from Penguin when the books were remaindered and so they've never, ever been opened or read by another soul.)

Also, I have a contract to sign. I never know how soon it's kosher to announce such things, but my agent scored a deal with Audible.com to publish audio books of all five of my Garnet Lacey books. The biggest hold up at the moment is that I'm trying to sign electronically, but I'm apparently the biggest computer dork on the entire planet because I can NOT figure out where the supposed "sign" button is. I've sent help messages to my agent, so I'm sure after she finishes rolling her eyes at me, she'll have advice and we'll get it done. I can't even offer to print out the contract at home at the moment because of the art project that ate my laser printer... I still have gummed up iron on sheets adhered to the roller of my printer. But, you know, if that was really what needed doing I'd just go to Kinko's or one of those places or start door-knocking on all my friend's doors until I found someone willing to let me print the thing out.

But, so that's a HUGE yay!

And, as I hinted at in another post, I have a lot of writing to do. I've got people interested in some proposals, and both need sample chapters. One of them, I will say, is for SAMURAI HIGH and, after consulting my YA expert (Mason), I've decided to recast the book in first person. Mason reads all the books in the target age of that proposal and a lot of them, like his favorite, Percy Jackson is written in first. The thing is that I'm pretty strong in first, and, when I restarted, MY GOD, THE WORDS STARTED TO FLY. So, I feel like this is a good move. And I'm super-excited about it.

Also, and this is less thrilling, but my dad is going in for surgery... possibly on Wednesday. It's a continuation of some of the health problems he had a year ago, so it's a bit... nerve-wracking. I'm sure it'll all be okay, but I'm driving down to be with my folks if the surgery goes. LaCrosse isn't far away and I probably won't end up staying terribly long, but going involves a lot of getting groceries and other errand type things in order so my family has food and whatnot without me.

So it will be a very busy day. But, a lot of it is busy that I'm so incredibly happy to be doing.