It's been a bad year
We've had bad years before, but at least we had our health. Where have I been lately?
Six months unemployment ended when I started a new job in mid-March. Two days later, my appendix burst, with complications, and landed me in the hospital for two weeks. Our reserves were already gone, our credit that was once so good has tanked. I'm at my wits' end. I have started back to work, but so many bills are backed up, I don't know how we'll ever recover. Any contributions will make a huge difference to getting us back on our feet again. It will also help keep the lights on, which is kind of critical since the new job is all telecommuting!
And since stressing about bills and health and everything else tends to stop the creative flow, you'll also be contributing to the further adventures of Ben and Raven and their friends in a substantive way. If you prefer not to put your credit card number out there right now, please drop me a note and I'll email a mailing address.
More news soon about The Mermaid Stair, coming May 25, 2014 from Crooked Cat.
Many thanks in advance!
Six months unemployment ended when I started a new job in mid-March. Two days later, my appendix burst, with complications, and landed me in the hospital for two weeks. Our reserves were already gone, our credit that was once so good has tanked. I'm at my wits' end. I have started back to work, but so many bills are backed up, I don't know how we'll ever recover. Any contributions will make a huge difference to getting us back on our feet again. It will also help keep the lights on, which is kind of critical since the new job is all telecommuting!
And since stressing about bills and health and everything else tends to stop the creative flow, you'll also be contributing to the further adventures of Ben and Raven and their friends in a substantive way. If you prefer not to put your credit card number out there right now, please drop me a note and I'll email a mailing address.
More news soon about The Mermaid Stair, coming May 25, 2014 from Crooked Cat.
Many thanks in advance!
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Carolyn
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Apr 20, 2014 04:23AM
Oh man, I *hate* reversals like that! Been there, done that -- we probably all have -- they take so long to recover from, very disheartening. But it sounds like you've got your feet back under you and the process is under way. Writing helps a lot over the long haul, though as you point out it's hard to get the creative juices flowing again after a knockdown. They are part of your nature, though, so when the physical and the external start knitting back together, you'll find the rest of it falling into place, too. If nothing else remember all of us out there waiting for your next book!
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Carolyn wrote: "Oh man, I *hate* reversals like that! Been there, done that -- we probably all have -- they take so long to recover from, very disheartening. But it sounds like you've got your feet back under you ..."Thanks Carolyn. It's still rocky. You know how it is, no sooner are the old bills caught up than the new ones are due, and then the rent again! This new job just barely covers everything, and I still have to get a balance somehow. Well, we do what we can!
As Todd Rundgren sings, "I got to keep on keepin' on / There's nothing else I can do"(from "Sometimes I Don't Know What To Feel")
