Last week of the semester. Six weeks of break before an i...
Last week of the semester. Six weeks of break before an intense, condensed summer session. I need the break.
For some reason it's been a difficult semester. Friends have been diagnosed with major (as in life-threatening) illnesses. There is jaw-dropping chaos in the History Department. My schedule has been such that it's difficult to work. However, even the short Memorial Day break has demonstrated that a short break and enough sleep and rest will go far in restoring me: I'm extremely pleased with the Benjamin January novel I've finished - Crimson Angel - and with the Ashers/Ysidro story I've started. I keep trying to collect the time to work on "outside" projects (i.e. on spec), but it hasn't happened yet. (A fantasy, a ghost-story, and other historical murders).
I just registered for Bouchercon, which will be in Long Beach in November. I hope they put me on panels, but if not, at least I'll be able to go - it hasn't been on the West Coast for awhile.
I did score a thing I've been searching for for years: a REALLY good, accurate map of 18th-century Paris. (I have a pretty good one, but it's difficult to read: this one is allegedly - it hasn't arrived yet - in 20 segments bound as a book, which is how my various London maps are). We'll see.
For some reason it's been a difficult semester. Friends have been diagnosed with major (as in life-threatening) illnesses. There is jaw-dropping chaos in the History Department. My schedule has been such that it's difficult to work. However, even the short Memorial Day break has demonstrated that a short break and enough sleep and rest will go far in restoring me: I'm extremely pleased with the Benjamin January novel I've finished - Crimson Angel - and with the Ashers/Ysidro story I've started. I keep trying to collect the time to work on "outside" projects (i.e. on spec), but it hasn't happened yet. (A fantasy, a ghost-story, and other historical murders).
I just registered for Bouchercon, which will be in Long Beach in November. I hope they put me on panels, but if not, at least I'll be able to go - it hasn't been on the West Coast for awhile.
I did score a thing I've been searching for for years: a REALLY good, accurate map of 18th-century Paris. (I have a pretty good one, but it's difficult to read: this one is allegedly - it hasn't arrived yet - in 20 segments bound as a book, which is how my various London maps are). We'll see.
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