I’m back! Did you miss me?

Wait–you didn’t even notice I was gone? Well, that’s depressing.

For those of you who did notice, I didn’t actually go anywhere, except to work at my new full-time job (hence the gap between posts). I am now officially working at XXXXX, XXXXX-ing a number of XXXXX’s for several large XXXXX’s–it’s all very top-secret. Yeah. That sounds pretty exciting, doesn’t it? I’ll just let you fill in those blanks yourself (feel free to insert your own ideas here; they’re probably far more titillating than what I’m really doing).

But it’s a job, it’s flexible, and it’s close to home, so no horrendous commute this time around.  The only real downside (other than the fact that XXXXX-ing is about as stimulating as watching paint dry) is that I’ve returned to work just at the time that I need to be busting on getting the print edition of Widow Woman ready to go and I don’t have a lot of extra time to spend on it now. I should, in fact, be working on the proofing now, but I worry that if I go too long between posts, you  might forget about me and move on to some other crazy writer’s blog.

So where am I now? I’ve seen the first draft of the cover from my wonder of a designer, I’m at about Chapter 6 of the proofing, and still need to purchase my ISBN (but at least I finished my research into which one to get–is there any good reason for those things to be so complicated?). Why am I reproofing, you might ask? Well, if you read some of my earlier posts, you know that the e-book version turned up a number of “little darlings” that need to be fixed and I’m anxious to put out a cleaner 2nd edition (but don’t forget: those 1st edition bloopers will make for a valuable item, someday. Yes, that’s what I’m telling myself–it helps manage my anxiety).

Well, that’s where things stand now–still plugging away at it, though in fits and starts during lunch and coffee breaks instead of in 8-hour stretches. Nobody said it’d be easy–because if it were, fewer people would be crazy enough to do it, I guess.

I’ll keep you posted! In the meantime, feel free to check in with me on Twitter or Facebook–shorter posts and tweets may be all I can manage for the immediate future.