I’m backkk!

So, yeah. Brain injuries are the worst. Mine was thankfully fairly mild, but it was complicated by my pesky vertigo issues. Hence why you’ve had one post from me since October 16, when it happened. (I wasn’t ahead on my queuing, okay?)

Unfortunately, mild though it was, I have had to quit my job editing at Samhain. Cos if I try editing all day like I used to, my head feels like a soda can. Being crushed in a trash compactor. So! While that should resolve (soon! we hope!), it made editing untenable because of things like deadlines.

I’m incredibly sad to leave my wonderful authors and I job I enjoyed (and working from home without pants on), it is time to move on from there. I’ll still be doing Ask an Editor, because just because I no longer have the job doesn’t mean I lost the skillz.

I am glad to focus on writing again, so that’s a silver lining. I am currently working on a project that I haven’t talked about because, though I’m not superstitious, I didn’t want to jinx it. But after discussing it with my super enthusiastic agent, I have a deadline to get it to her by the end of February. I have around 25k to go on it. (Does anyone want a sprinting buddy? Please? Help me.)

Currently titled GIRL, REALIZED, the book was a lightning strike for me. You know, the idea that hits you almost fully formed and you don’t have to struggle to get an outline down or anything? I had this lightning strike in September and developed it quickly with Kate’s help. I fast-drafted the first 30,000 words until my concussion and then it, like the rest of my life, got put on hold while I recovered.

This book means A LOT to me. It’s an LGBT story, the kind I want to see. (That is, it’s YA but not a romance. SHOCK.) It asks a lot of questions about who we are and why we are and what we’re doing, and yesterday when I reread the ending I had already written after being away from it since my fall, I cried. It was good.

And that’s where I pick myself back up, dust myself off, and know it’s time to get back to work. I know this post has no real point besides being an update, but I felt weird just posting something writerly out of the blue again, So consider it my re-introduction.

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