"It's Monday!" she says, the sarcasm evident for all but the unusually dense. "Are you ready to rumble?"

*chewing her lower lip, she wonders if she can use that last phrase without paying a huge licensing fee...considers using a strikeout replacement like all the cool bloggers do...decides not to go to the effort*

Enough of that, eh?

Last week was an odd one, what with two days off from the day job, dinner out nearly every night due to celebrations and just weird schedules, and my rather scattered brain flitting from thing to thing going "Ooo...shiny!" approximately every hour or so. Despite all of that, I managed to get all of my serial scenes done, *and* I also finally finished the erotica novelette that was supposed to top out around 8k words (it ended up being nearly 15k...so almost double). Yay! It's in the very capable hands of my editor at the moment, so this week, I get to start a new story. Not much makes me happier than starting new stories and finishing others...

I've also chosen the stories for the newest Rattles anthology, so if you're a fan of short fiction, be watching for the new anthology on February 3rd. For writers, if you write flash (or want to start), I'll be posting a new prompt tonight on the Rattles blog, submissions will be due on March 16th for an April release.

I didn't quite get to formatting the Flash 52 book (had Rattles and Smurf stuff to do this weekend), but I'm going to start formatting that tomorrow night, and the plan is to have it published by Friday.

This week, more of the same: serial scenes, some Rattles business stuff and formatting, more bookkeeping catch-up, and more work on organizing my various collections (because it's important to have fun too, dang it!). I've decided to delete my organizing blog, because honestly (and ironically), I'll be more organized without having to worry about that.

So that's the run down - I know I've been slacking on email newsletters lately, but as soon as I get the next few things out, I'll get one of those done too. With any luck, that will go out in February.

Despite my lack of enthusiasm for the day, I hope yours is off to a good start, and that it goes by quickly & productively for all of us...