My reeturn to reality

Well, I am back on my side of the Atlantic, still seriously jet-lagged. I had a wonderful time, although three weeks was probably too long to set such a hectic pace for someone with my chronic back problems. I plan to blog about the Richard III Tour, of course, and about my other adventures on the second half of my trip. But the deadline dragon has already pounced and is moving in for the kill, as I have to go over the copy-edited manuscript and do the Author’s Note ASAP, and if I do not give them priority, I would have to give serious consideration to joining the Witness Protection Program. I will pop up here when I can; even deadline dragons need to nap occasionally, after all.
In other news, I was very happy to come home just as a judge ruled that same-sex marriages should be legal in New Jersey; I see this as an important civil rights issue. I was happy, too, to snare a copy of the new Bernard Cornwell novel, The Pagan Lord, which won’t be published in the US until January, although I was baffled to see that it has been given some unfavorable Amazon reviews simply because these readers felt it was not long enough, being “only” 300 pages. Someone even called it a novella!
The controversy over Richard III’s burial continues, now focusing upon the tomb design proposed by Leicester. http://www.nbcnews.com/science/richar... Our tour members agreed that our visit to Leicester was the high point of the tour, so I’ll have lots more on all of this in the future.
Oh, and Holly managed the impossible, gaining a full pound even though she’d been on a strict diet while I was gone.
Meanwhile, please wish me luck in this unending war with the deadline dragon. I suspect I will be needing lots of luck in my current jet-lagged state.