I didn’t want to say anything about the fact that I was pursuing the removal of the non-compete clause from my contract until I heard one way or the other. I got the news today. The non-compete clause for my Scholastic contract is dead, and I’m now free to write stories in that world again. So now the issue becomes … Continue reading →
I’ve been nearly invisible here for ages because migraines left me with barely enough energy to keep courses running and get some writing done. But a low-sodium diet is proving to have a 1:1 correlation with the migraines—if I accidentally eat something high in sodium, I pay for it with three days of migraines, starting within 24 hours of whatever … Continue reading →
Getting the whole month of December off didn’t quite work out. But I am taking off the rest of the month. I don’t remember ever having been this tired before, but I now have a chance to rest. Mostly. Sort of. UNTIL MONDAY, JANUARY 7th, I’ll do Student Support on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. It’s just me in there. Margaret … Continue reading →
My most frequently asked question on THE MOON & SUN series is “When are you going to do the next book?” So I’ll answer that one now. I’m doing it next. When I come back to work after my break in December, I’m putting together the rest of the Create a World Clinic, and will use The Emerald Sun as … Continue reading →
Back at the end of June, 2011, I read a book that succeeded because of a lie, and I turned my entire life upside down as a result of that lie. The book was, of course, John Locke’s How I Sold 1 Million Ebooks in 5 Months. Like a lot of other writers, I let myself be suckered in. I … Continue reading →
The migraines and vertigo are back with a vengeance, and I’m stuck in horizontal mode (laptop propped on lap and lying down as I write this, in fact). So Saturday, I dragged out some cotton string (a very nice German variegated yarn), and needles, and did one of the few things that doesn’t make me feel worse when this gets … Continue reading →
I’ve been doing HTTS Walkthrough prep and setup all week. Site set-up, lesson template setup, student set-up. Today I did workflow setup. Because I’m doing two projects at once, and because one is nonfiction and one is fiction, and because they are inextricably locked together like Siamese twins—and because both are MASSIVE projects, either of which could sink me if … Continue reading →
More than a month after I intended to start, (due to Circumstances Beyond Our Control™), today I’m beginning The Last Moon & Sun…which is not the title of the book, but I have to call it something until I have a real title. This is not a little project. This is…well, mammoth. Why? One: I haven’t written in the series … Continue reading →
So…I’ve been MIA for a bit more than two months. I’m back now, and ready to get down to the cool stuff, but before I get to that, here’s where I’ve been, and why: After losing just about six months last year to constant migraines, vertigo, and there for a while the dread that I was going to drop dead … Continue reading →
Pretty much the same thing, right? I have news, I have course announcements, and I have other things—but those all have to wait until the tax stuff is done. I’ll try to post all the good stuff here on February 1st. Until then, I’m singing Eleven months out of the year It’s fun to be self-employed And when I am … Continue reading →