Funny thing about taking a day off from LJ, all of a sudden it becomes easier to skip the next day and the next and then suddenly it has been days since a posting. This is the same thing that has always happened when I try to keep a journal or a diary (two different things) with any amount of regularity. I am not going to feel guilty (okay, I’ll TRY not to feel guilty). Truth be told, I have been overwhelmed with way too much to do and not enough hours to do it in. The cold slowed me down, of course. They always do. I want nothing more than to crawl into bed and sleep for a few days but I don’t want to use up any of my precious PTO at work on sick pay. Ick.
What I’ve been doing – Oliver’s publicity , like crazy. I finally figured out what happened to all the missing mailings of review copies and press kits and such, they were waiting for me at the Post Office because I put my new PO Box as the return address and then promptly forgot I even had a PO Box. Sigh. Oh well. Lots of books went out. Some kind words coming back in. I’m hoping for lots of kind words to cover up the not-so-kind ones from SLJ. From an unexpected corner my Google Alerts showed me that Oliver got a favorable mention in then San Diego Union-Tribune. I still, for the life of me, can’t figure out how to get any coverage in my own local paper, the San Jose Mercury News.
Oliver left this morning for Harlem, NY. Whew! It’s his first time away from home. I hope he does okay. I was up way too late last night putting together a photo album for him to take with him. It has pictures of him, of course, but then pictures of me and where I live and pictures from my childhood. It was fun putting it together but I have to quit getting these bright ideas late at night when I have to get up at 5am. I also have to learn to triple the amount of I time I think anything will take because I am such a poor judge of time.
Next week I am off work and hope (okay, NEED) to finish up the revisions on Hugging the Rock. They’re doing pretty quick. For the most part they are going okay but I am stutter-stepping in a few places and hope for inspiration when I am away from the day job next week.
Alright, time to go get caught up on all the hundreds of posts I have missed while I’ve been away.
Welcome back!
That is so funny about not getting in your hometown paper. My book is set in San Diego, I wrote it in San Diego, and it won the San Diego Book Award. But no one there will review it! It has been reviewed very nicely by two newspapers in Iowa. Go figure.
Your book looks adorable.
Isn’t it weird? I also had a bad experience with the paper in the nearby shall-be-nameless town where I spend a ton of money. They told me they only review local writers and that I should talk to the SJ paper. Sigh. No win situation.
Welcome back!
That is so funny about not getting in your hometown paper. My book is set in San Diego, I wrote it in San Diego, and it won the San Diego Book Award. But no one there will review it! It has been reviewed very nicely by two newspapers in Iowa. Go figure.
Your book looks adorable.
Isn’t it weird? I also had a bad experience with the paper in the nearby shall-be-nameless town where I spend a ton of money. They told me they only review local writers and that I should talk to the SJ paper. Sigh. No win situation.
I was starting to worry about you…but I figured you are just swamped with all the hats you are wearing right now.
Glad to hear you found those lost books! Oliver’s photo album sounds cute. I hope he has a great trip. I wonder what things the kids will find to add to his suitcase for the ride home. A’s class had a class Lion that visited each child’s home twice last year. It was so funny to see all the interesting things that came with him the second time around.
Thanks, Kim. Very swamped and I was exhausted. I think rest was the best thing I could have done. I haven’t forgotten that I still owe you stuff.
I hope the teachers put some fun things to come back home with him. Of course right now I am just freaking out that he goes over big and doesn’t flop with the kids. You just can’t tell.
I was starting to worry about you…but I figured you are just swamped with all the hats you are wearing right now.
Glad to hear you found those lost books! Oliver’s photo album sounds cute. I hope he has a great trip. I wonder what things the kids will find to add to his suitcase for the ride home. A’s class had a class Lion that visited each child’s home twice last year. It was so funny to see all the interesting things that came with him the second time around.
Thanks, Kim. Very swamped and I was exhausted. I think rest was the best thing I could have done. I haven’t forgotten that I still owe you stuff.
I hope the teachers put some fun things to come back home with him. Of course right now I am just freaking out that he goes over big and doesn’t flop with the kids. You just can’t tell.
Dear Oliver,
you are adorable
xo
Tucker and Shelby
Thanks, Tucker and Shelby!
Dear Oliver,
you are adorable
xo
Tucker and Shelby
hope the revisions are going great! 🙂
Slow and steady, Meg. A lot different from revisions for my picture books. A learning experience for me.
I am totally with you on the whole skipping out on blogging thing. I find that I drift out of it for periods and then come back strong later. I keep thinking I should be more disciplined about it. And then I turn around and several weeks have gone by and I haven’t been on LJ once! Oh well, nice to read and catch up with you anyway.
I missed it, not blogging every day, but then when I am so bogged down with the day job and I don’t really have anything about writing to post I feel like it is a waste of people’s time to read my day-to-day junk. Sigh. I think I wish I made more meaningful posts than I do. I used to, over on blogger, but I can’t keep up with so many journals and I can’t seem to write deeply here. Weird.
Yes, the keeping up part is hard. But you write so articulately about your writing process. I really enjoy reading about it.
I am totally with you on the whole skipping out on blogging thing. I find that I drift out of it for periods and then come back strong later. I keep thinking I should be more disciplined about it. And then I turn around and several weeks have gone by and I haven’t been on LJ once! Oh well, nice to read and catch up with you anyway.
I missed it, not blogging every day, but then when I am so bogged down with the day job and I don’t really have anything about writing to post I feel like it is a waste of people’s time to read my day-to-day junk. Sigh. I think I wish I made more meaningful posts than I do. I used to, over on blogger, but I can’t keep up with so many journals and I can’t seem to write deeply here. Weird.
Hey Susan. . .I know EXACTLY what you mean about missing MANY days on LJ once you skip one. August and September were like that for me, but things have quieted down and I seem to have a little more time.
Funny, I was catching up on LJ this morning and I thought to myself, Someone had recently friended me and I haven’t friended her back yet. Who was that? I went back a few posts and I found you. So now I can friend you back. 🙂
Great website by the way. As is Oliver’s. Hope he has a safe trip. 😉
Hey, thanks for friending back! And for the kind words on the website. Oliver is MIA right now and I am little concerned. Fingers crossed that he shows up in the right place tomorrow.
Ahhh….thanks so much! It’s been fun. A lot of work but fun.
Ahhh….thanks so much! It’s been fun. A lot of work but fun.