Though it lasted approximately 5,000 years, January finally came to an end. Seriously, I don’t know why January has to be so January about everything every year. It’s like an entire month of Mondays, and this January was particularly awful for just so many damn reasons. So many damn awful reasons that it feels…damn awful…
New Year, Same Me
Happy New Year, everyone. So, early on in 2025, I received bad news. The kind of bad news that came with a “six to twelve month” timeframe, which means that I stopped doing anything besides trying to hold back the floodwaters for as long as possible. Eight months later, I lost that fight and subsequently…
The Big Push
This month is going to be the month. The month where I make major strides toward getting the Terrible Romance Sequel out into the world. This is normally where I would follow such a statement with something like, “I mean, it won’t be, but I’m gonna try to do it anyway!” And that is all…
Halfway Checkpoint
It’s about that time of year when I take a look at the goals I set for myself back in January to see how I’m doing and what progress, if any, I have made. And given the state of the world these days, it feels supremely silly and rather pointless to do so, but I…
Edits, Revisions, and the Dancing Queen Conundrum
So, last month, one of my big goals was to complete the two manuscript read-throughs (side note: I really hate that there’s a hyphen in ‘read-throughs’. I keep wanting to spell it as one word sans hyphen—and have actually done so on a couple of occasions when I was irrationally irritated by the presence of…
