A rapidfire update on what’s been happening

NaNo: To my chagrin, I realize momentum is a real thing–once I started writing, I wrote! Easily! Copiously! But I only wrote for about half the days in November, because of various other demands on my time, brain energy, etc.

Still, I wrote over 1,000 words on almost every day I did write, and on 1 or 2 days as much as 4,000 or 5,000 words–so my total for November was 45,368 words, now that I add it up.

And now that I add it up, I’m feeling a new kind of chagrin, the realization that if I’d just put in a day or two more, I could have won!

Oh, well. I will do more writing on these projects in the near-ish future.

I just wish we didn’t have two such holiday-crowded months right in a row (for those of us whose families celebrate these holidays. Also, does “end of year for tax purposes” count as a holiday, because I’m staring down the barrel of that too).

NSP: The Table of Contents for Cunning Linguists has been finalized, and we’re now in the contracts and revisions stage. Once all contracts have been signed I can make a formal announcement of the 29 stories included in the anthology!

I’ve also got 29 strips of paper laid out on my dining room floor, being shuffled into configurations, as I try to figure out what order to put the stories in the book.

My goal is to get a galley together for reviewers by Feburary 5, though I realize how dangerous it is to speak of dates and goals aloud.

Other writing: If You Were My Lover, my collection of F/F, F/M, M/M, and less specifically gendered literary erotica, was successfully released yesterday! So now I’ll be finalizing my omnibus short story collection paperback, Soft, Sharp, Tender. I have some more short ebooks coming out at the beginning of 2022, but hopefully nothing as demanding as the collections these past few months–they were fun, but also sucked me in!