That sound you hear is my keyboard clicking....
My writing life is just crazy right now. Last week I submitted an essay to a site I admire, sent off a proposal for a short essay to a magazine and finished my October column. I also had a couple of articles run on Dispatch (all AK flying of course) and reviewed one book for my November column and another for December. I got an email off to an author whose book I want to write about in Dispatch (just heard back from him last night) and emailed another author to get a look at her book for my annual December feature on books for curious readers at Bookslut. (She's going to give me a look at a copy when I am in SE AK next week.)
And, with the exception of some final tweaking, I finished my presentation for the AK Historical Society Conf on the 26th. (That's in Haines, which you reach by ferry from Juneau and it will be fabulous.)
What I'm reading:
Women Aviators by Karen Bush Gibson, The Civil War in 50 Objects by Harold Holzer and Smithsonian Civil War: Inside the National Collection. All of these are for my November column which is nonfiction of an American history persuasion. All are very interesting and reader friendly and I hope more people will think of NF for teens after reading about them.
What I'm Reviewing:
Among Wolves by Gordon Haber & Marybeth Holleman and Owning the Earth by Andro Linklater, both for Booklist.
What I'm Writing:
A post for the Bush Pilot Blog at Alaska Dispatch about Happy Endings (a photo book on aircraft wrecks where everyone lived); another on a flying day trip out of Fairbanks, another on pilot error and what it means as far as being a good or bad pilot. (This is tricky but it's a huge problem in AK.) Plus a couple of other things that I may or may not get written before leaving for Haines on Monday. (I'm waiting on the Probable Cause report on a crash from a while ago so I can cover that but it's been slow in showing up.)
And finally (!) my next book, of course. Still on Denali, still on science and mountaineering. Still really wishing I could write a different ending for this part then the one history has handed me. Sigh.
