Post 37

Happy Friday, my loves!

For those curious few who have asked, yes, I still have a job. Sort of. It’s a bit touch and go here, considering our fearless First Orangutan has eliminated a whole mess of environmental regulations, but yes. I still have income and can still support my voracious book habit. For those of you who don’t know, I’m also multi-classing as an emergency medic, so I’d prefer to keep that funding stream going until I can properly stick an IV into an organic without making it cry. So leaky….

But did you know that you can get wearable vein kits that will prevent leaking humans? On Amazon? For like, twenty bucks. There’s even a back plate so that I can’t stab anyone. And there are practice suture kits with fake skin blobs. I love it. It’s my new hobby.

Cygnus is out! Book 5 is complete and out in the world. Please, go forth, read it, forgive the terrible editing. Tell me if you liked it or not. Mostly just if you liked it, please. I am a sensitive and delicate flower.

Sun on Snow is coming along nicely. I’ve put up twenty or so pages, added a couple new sections. I should be ready to start the final chapter next week and it should be ready for rewrite and issue by the first week of April. Exciting! Send me your comments and your questions on it. It’s the perfect time to start thinking of rewrites. I’m not sure why, but romances are so much easier to write than any other genre. I must be doing it wrong.

I have been reading the Book of Mormon this week. Yes, that’s right. You read that correctly. Inquiring minds want to know. So far, I’ve identified twelve major historical inconsistencies, a whole mess of very homoerotic psychological manipulations, and almost nothing about actual day-to-day life that is what religion is for. I met two delightful missionaries on Monday. I promised I would read it and give them a critique. I am prepared. I’m not sure they have encountered something like me before…they seemed a little overwhelmed. The senior missionary said that if I was able to read the Book of Mormon with an open mind, I would be filled with God’s love and know it to be true.

Evidently, my mind is not open enough because the work seems very fake. Like the author just copied the rhythm and cadence of Old Testament stories, changed some names, threw in some historical details that sounded like they should be ancient (only they are from the wrong ancient period) and called it a day. Considering that’s basically how I wrote my first book…I recognize the signs. But! I am continuing to read. I made a promise and I want to see how the story ends anyway. Oh, and I don’t know who did the footnotes for this, but they are all kinds of weird. They seem to just reference themselves, not actual biblical works, alternate translations, definitions, or anything useful. It’s shake-your-head and wonder weird.

I believe that’s all I have to report this week. I am trying to move out of the industrial engineering setting—I’m tired of dealing with everything. It just bums me out. I’d like to move more into a remediation space, so we’ll see if I can manage that. It hasn’t been terribly successful so far. Probably because I am POWERFUL unlikable. Humans DO NOT enjoy being around me. Which is unfortunate, but you know, the world is an imperfect place.

Wish me luck, duckies! I’m going to recover my strength this weekend and head back out to battle with the Corporate Monstrosities of our time on Monday. Godspeed.