Coming up for air (redux)

I'm not sure where the last three months went (or rather, I'm sure, but I barely felt the time pass!), but here I am. Riptide Publishing, which has been eating most of my time and energy is open for business.

I had seriously underestimated the amount of time, energy and emotion this would take. Or what can go wrong, and what would be no problem at all. I've learned a huge amount about things I only had a faint idea about. There were some hairy moments, hilarious moments, silly and angry moments, but, bottom line, I'm damn glad we did it, and the rest of the team is awesome to work with.

I have a release to celebrate, too. "Dark Soul", the first part of the series of the same name, has been released by Riptide. I'm following up every 3-4 weeks with another part, and most likely that should carry us through to February or even March.

Beyond Dark Soul, I haven't written a thing in the last months - too busy working on the publisher, but it's now beginning to calm down (thank Gods!), and I expect to soon get back into it. My characters feel quite neglected, and the sense of failure I get when I'm not productive in
terms of writing is getting almost unbearable. Regardless how much else I have going on, if I'm not writing, I feel like a loser. That's how I'm wired.

There's a huge amount of interviews with me all across the blogosphere, too.

Here's a big one about me.

And about Riptide.

And soon there's a whole range of Dark Soul interviews and fun stuff at Amara's Place.

(I'm now stealing a moment to update my website...)

I blogged over at Slash & Burn

Apologies - I need to get better about blogging, but wow, we're busy.

But I DID blog over at Slash and Blurn - about the stories coming up soon. You can still win that Kindle or $115 book certificate, btw. Just pre-order "Counterpunch" (at 20% off, too) at Storm Moon Press's website.

Hot boxers (NOT the underwear) and messed-up men, what's not to love?

I'm just coming to the end of my mandatory two-week break. (As a financial services worker, I'm legally forced to talk ten consecutive working days off - even though I'm not a trader courting burnout, but that's ok). Today, and the weekend, and Monday starts on the early shift - getting up at 5:30 will be a bit of a shock after the habit I've formed recently. Oh well, I'll live.

Autumn is clearly here. I remember, last year at this time I was very nearly burned out of my job (despite all the awesome travelling) and getting ready to go to Chicago. After a weird heat wave last week temperatures have dropped. It's *cold* and crisp now, as nature catches up with the calender. The mind turns towards taking stock - and what is left that needs doing. For me, that's taxes, mostly. A couple ARCs that we need to send out, a humongous interview I need to edit down as much as possible (a 6k interview?? HOLY HELL).

But life's good. So much better than last year. Can't wait for winter.