June 18, 2025
Let’s wish a happy book birthday to Saving Sima! It turns one today! And it’s also a fitting book when you need to talk about your an evening that went sideways. Vassily’s life definitely goes sideways during this story.
May my own outcome be as promising.
It’s not that what happened was nearly as strange as what happens to Vass in Saving Sima. It was just an evening spent in the pantry, cleaning it out and cleaning it up a bit. I just hadn’t been planning on it, but sometimes, you get inspired and the simple task occupies your brain and your body as you walk back and forth around the kitchen, emptying shelves, cleaning everything, and putting things back. In some ways, it’s cleansing of myself as much as it is cleansing of the house.
Still, it ate into my writing time.
And yet… when I sat down, I felt a lot better.
I didn’t quite hit my page goal yesterday, but that’s okay. I was doing a lot of cross-referencing with my notes and working on the timeline. Slow editing is okay when I’m doing that. So I’ll finish this read-through on Thursday, I think.
When I finally did sit down to write, I was working on next year’s newsletter story instead of Alyssa. I had expected it to be a quick tweak. Nope; that too had a moment of being sideways, as I found another mistake that I have to address. You generally don’t have homework over summer break! Summer reading, sure. But not assignments!
I’m enrolled in the Smashwords Summer/Winter sale, like usual, so look for that coming up in July.
And Populated was awarded a spot in a promotion at Kobo, so look for the price to drop, also in July.
Combined with the in-person event at the Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival, and July is shaping up to be a bonanza of book sales. (Reminder that my books are ALWAYS cheaper at my direct store!)
Lavash at First Sight, by Taleen Voskuni
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