Hi friends! Like Siri, I too love autumn (and am an autumn baby), and October is my very favorite month of the year!
I just…feel very exhausted this October.
It’s hard work, getting a book ready and then out! I’ve essentially done almost nothing but Hallowed Hill since, oh, May? June? Goodness, I don’t even remember. But I had to get the book ready, and then I needed to do marketing, and publishing, etc., and it was A LOT.
And now the book is out! And aside from generally poking it (and fighting with Amazon, which keeps losing bits of things) it doesn’t require a lot of my attention anymore.
So now I can move on to all the other stuff I should have been working on, right?
I mean, in theory.
But generally I am just tired.
MileHiCon is this month, which I’ve been doing for, oh, eight years or so. I’ve got copies of Hallowed Hill ordered, and I’ve submitted my permits and have my panel schedule and all that jazz, but there’s still stuff to do. I need to figure out a card reader, and do panel research (maybe–I’ve already forgotten what panels I’m on. I had to drop the dinosaur panel which was devastating), and I’m pondering maybe making little booklets with the excerpt, or the first chapter, in them to hook people into buying the book.
Or maybe I’ll just do bookmarks. But I’ve got to figure that out.
And I’ve got a big volunteer project that needs to be done, and I’ve hardly touched my Scotland sketch journal, and there’s the big revision I was working on before I switched to Hallowed Hill. None of that is really happening yet, but hopefully soon.
Nano is also happening soon. I’m not going to do it this year, at least, not with the 50K goal. I think I WILL go to the kick-off party, and some of the write-ins, and hang out on the forums, just for community’s sake. I’ve really missed the in-person stuff the last two years, and I figure no one will be too grumpy if I come along, even if I’m revising instead of writing.
Fingers crossed that I find all my spoons soon, and I hope YOUR October is going great!