As you’re reading this (I wrote it Sun. night), I’m back at the day job, probably trying to wade through a million emails and put out the small fires burning because I was on “vacation” (see yesterday’s post) last week. Obviously I don’t have a lottery win or runaway book sales to report...

In any case, back to normal around here this week. I’m sorry to see my afternoon writing sessions go, but happy that my normal routines will be back, because I really just can’t seem to function at all without them. Gift or curse, take your pick.

Have you heard? Brazen Snake Books is publishing An Elemental Wind by Carol R. Ward on Sept. 30^th! I’m so excited about this, and I know Carol is too. Click on the title, go check out the blurb! It’s a romantic fantasy/space opera story that is just fabulous...

This Week on The Variety Pages

Monday: Weekly News, Goals, & Archives 9/19/11
Wednesday: Writing Notes – Details, details.
Friday: Ch. 19 of Falling in Public
Sunday: Code Name: Succulent – The Beauty of Pets

Elsewhere

Tuesday: Chapter 19 of The Minister’s Maid at Fantasy Ranch Novels
Tuesday: New design at NailArt Tuesday
Tuesday: Tea post at Tea onTap
Thursday: Marketing Is...What It Is at Beyond the Words
Saturday: Planning to Fail at Routinely Yours

If you missed a post last week and want to catch up, here’s the link list. Note that this includes *all* of my posts, including for my pen name genres and non-writing blogs, so click at your own risk.

Posts for September 5 – September 11

Fiction
Chapter 18 of The Minister's Maid (Romantic Suspense, FantasyRanchNovels.com)
Chapter 18 of Falling inPublic (Romantic Suspense, The Variety Pages)
Chapter 17 of ThePile Driver (TrinityMarlow.com – Erotica, Adults only, NSFW)
Chapter 18 of The Pile Driver (TrinityMarlow.com – Erotica, Adults only, NSFW)
Chapter 58 of Angel Eyes (AlexWesthaven.com - Thriller)

Writing/Reading/Publishing

Writing Notes: Relationship Development (The Variety Pages)
Revisiting the Business Plan (Beyond the Words)
Coming Soon Announcement for AnElemental Wind (Snake Bites)

Personal/Hobbies

Code Name: Succulent – On Vacations (The Variety Pages)
Cracklin’ Gemma (Nail Art Tuesday)
The Workhorse:Checklists (Routinely Yours)

Goal Reports

There was so much going on around the house last week that I was doing well just to get my serial chapters done. So all the other writing plans I had went straight out the window, dang it. I did get about a quarter of what was on the list done for my business goals, and made a serious dent in the personal goals list too. Needless to say, I’ll be pushing TWC’s release back to late November/early December, which is where it originally was, so I guess I can’t really complain. Fall is just way too busy of a season, I tell you what.

Oh, and I fixed my treadmill myself, too. Feelin’ pretty good about that...

Goals for the Week

Writing

• 5 serial chapters (think one will be done this week – yay!)

• Write flash story for anthology (have you submitted yours yet?)

• Spend one night this week working on TWC revisions

Business

• Finish converting the next BSB title

• Marketing plan for said title

• Submit to review sites

• Dare I put down catch up record keeping?

• Do some research on foreign authors w/US publishers

Personal

• Finish cleaning out large aquariums, donate to the local zoo

• One load of laundry per day to catch up.

• Workout four nights

• Move more stuff downstairs to prep for carpet installation

• Finalize Halloween party guest list

And that’s probably more than enough to keep me busy this week. Anything fun, or just plain annoying on your plate today?

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