Being Productive — Thursday, June 26, 2025

Delia is always being productive. Sometimes, too much so. Pick up a copy of Populated and see what I mean.

Yeah, yesterday saw me being SUPER productive. Like, wow.

What all happened? Well, I finished the edit I’d been working on. (and then promptly forgot to send it back to the author. Way to go, Sooz!)
I made a no-bake cheesecake, thanks to King Arthur Baking. (It took a lot longer than it was supposed to.)
I wrote almost 2k words.

That’s me being productive, all right!

editing

I’m feeling the pressure of the deluge I know is about to hit me. The plan right now is simple: keep being as productive as possible, at every minute of my editing day. That includes weekends until things slow down again.

This is the freelancer’s life, though. Huge feasts that remind you of a Monty Python movie, and then famine that’s so severe, you think you’re a crappy editor (you are not) and don’t know what to do with yourself (yes you do).

writing

Yep, almost 2k words last night! We have Tess being the Tess we met in the Bird, Chad up to no good again, Mack not sure what to make of any of this, and whoo boy, some things I did not see coming but now that they are here, they are right and natural and perfect and… honestly? When my friend called my books “the right kind of silly,” this is why I took it as a compliment.

I woke up to both royalties from Hoopla (thank you, Hoopla readers!) and word that Demo Tapes 4 is now available on the platform as well. So now all the Trevolution books are there, but only the first three Sheep Farm books, which are newer (and, frankly, better), and I don’t understand, but that’s probably okay.

Remember to request the last two Tales from the Sheep Farm books, Saving Sima and Legacy, when you’re browsing the platform.

And if you’re in Pittsburgh, on Sunday, I’ll be joined by Beck Grey, Lainey Davis, and Paige N. Regan at the Bad Bitch Bazaar! We’ll be there from 2-7, hanging out, selling books, and having a great time.

Book of the Day

Octobers, by Sahar Muradi
This is, as usual, an affiliate link. And yes, it’s a book of poetry! I don’t usually post poetry collections, but this one crossed my radar and why NOT? The criteria is the criteria and I never said I couldn’t include poetry. I’m the one who chose the criteria, after all.

Reminder that your support helps me keep on being productive like this! Be it booking my editing services, buying my books, stuffing my ko-fi, or even just talking me up and/or visiting me when I’m at a craft show, it all adds up.