The first half - the heavy half - of the semester is over...

The first half - the heavy half - of the semester is over; until Christmas I'll be teaching two days a week instead of four. It's not the teaching that drags me down but the drive, I think, and the schedule itself: coming home very late Wednesday nights and then having to get up very early Thursday mornings to get to the 8 a.m. class. It's truly amazing how much better I feel when I'm getting enough sleep and enough rest.

I've gone back to working on a fantasy while doing the preliminary reading for the next vampire book - slow going, because the fantasy has to be entirely done on spec (very few publishers are taking things off outlines anymore, even from known writers). A new series, one I've had kicking around in my mind for years (to my Antryg fans,very few publishers are going to pick up old series - hence, The Further Adventures in the first place). I'm enjoying myself very much, but find I get tired very quickly, something friends who've had pneumonia warned me about. It can take over a year to recover one's energy. After a gruesomely hot summer, the cooling weather helps.

A quiet day of laundry and tea.