The Deliberate Art, and Bureaucracy
My weekly post at the Midnight Hour is up. It’s about deliberate choices and how a writer must make them.
Some very exciting things are happening that I can’t talk about, but I can give a few pieces of news: two of the Jill Kismet novels, Night Shift and Hunter’s Prayer, are now available for preorder on Amazon. Also available for preorder are two anthologies I’m in, Hotter than Hell and The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance. See, I HAVE been busy. A busy little bee.
There is some good news about a Selene and Nikolai story I have to keep under my hat for a while, and more YA good news that I hope to be able to share very soon. But, as I look up at the paragraph above, I think that maybe I haven’t been the sloth I feel like. That’s the problem with working so hard and having a book come out two years after one finishes it–it feels like one hasn’t done anything in the intervening time.
As for the bureaucracy…well, let’s just say that a certain bureaucrat is discovering that he can blow off anyone else in the world in order to protect his institution’s safety rating. But he can’t blow off my kid, and he certainly can’t blow me off. When I get stubborn I am every bureaucrat’s worst nightmare, not in the least because I insist on getting things in writing and framing the questions so they have to answer them correctly.
Hey, I worked for a bank and in public relations. I know how this bloody well works, and if you think you can roll over the top of one of my kids, buster, you’ve got another think coming. So there. Nyaaaaah.
Nuff said.
There’s errands to run today and a revision to finish, so I’m going to sign off. Have a great weekend, Readers. and a happy Leap Year to you one and all.
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