Where Have I Been?

It's been a busy couple of weeks. Shadowfire Press picked up a set of stories I've been working on for some time, and the first will be coming out May 21. For those of you looking at your calendars, yes, that is SOON. Half-Sick of Shadows will be available in ebook format, and soon after, perhaps, the rest.

This means that for the last few days I've been working on art request forms, taglines, and the like. For whatever reason, a fifteen-word tagline is much harder to write than an 18,000 word story. It comes off cryptic, or inadequate, or dull, or too much like a fortune cookie. The author bio is even worse, or at least it is if you've lived a writer's life: baking bagels, training dogs and shoveling kennels, flipping burgers, adjunct teaching, periodicals checkin at the library, and so on. I tend to think that a bit of variety feeds the muse. The muse may, at this point, get indigestion.

The little fellow is fine, though. He wallows around on (and off) a blanket on the floor, attempts to eat my laptop, swats at keys, and generally makes himself helpful. He's getting interested in Cheerios now, though has not yet worked out the art of putting them in his mouth himself. He'll eat them from my fingers. He's grabbing at them happily. The bridge will eventually connect here to there. I'm now finding that babies are crawling into all my short story efforts.