August 21st 2007
Click on the link to hear me on Writer’s Talking, hosted by Matthew Wayne Selznick. For an extra treat, Tee Morris, another Lulu author and Podiobooks veteran is on the show with us. Thanks for listening.
August 17th 2007
Our statistician, the lovely Martha, has let us know that we now have more than 500 regular subscriptions to the Serve it Cold podcast, not counting iTunes! Thank you all!
I’ll be on Matthew Wayne Selznick’s podiocast, Writer’s Talking, this Saturday, August 18th with Tee Morris (Writerstalking.com). We’ll be recording live at 4:00 Central time. You can call in to the live show through the free service, Talkshoe, but you’ll have to register with talk shoe before the show (talkshoe.com). I hope you can catch the show live and participate, but the good thing about podcasting is that you can also listen on your own timetable.
One more thing: If you haven’t been listening regularly to the Serve It Cold podcast, or if you have been listening but fast forwarding through the introductions, then you are missing a real treat. The “story so far” synopses developed by Lin and Martha and executed by the Dancing Cat Irregulars are GREAT!
Thanks guys.
August 13th 2007
Project, projects, projects! I’m inundated with book projects, column projects, house projects, yard projects, family projects, birding projects, and now Lin wants to go on a vacation! There is so much going on that I can’t focus on one thing for too long without feeling guilty that I’m letting another area tip over into the “unproductive” space, so I leave one thing and move to something else, only to find another pile becoming precariously over-balanced!
I’m loving being at home, writing. Really, I’m not complaining. But this is hard…maybe the hardest thing I’ve ever done. Now that I have fewer “other career” demands, I’m thinking of all these things I want to do, and, as the list grows, so do my feelings of being over-whelmed and under-talented. And Lin, well-meaning and pragmatic as she is, does work hard to keep me focused on short-term and achievable goals (in fact, she would be a great newspaper reporter!): Whom will you send packets to? What will be in the packets? Where is the geographical area of focus? When are the packets going out? How will they respond to your query?, etc. The TO-DO list grows and grows!
Even as I’m writing this, the calendar over my right shoulder glares at me with unblinking dated eyes, taunting me that nothing went out in the mail today! I shake off the feeling and focus on the thousandth version of my query letter . . .
