My web site was down for four or five days, in case you didn’t notice, Dear Reader, but miraculously we seem to be back up today. I am so glad, because a site-crash was just one more thing to add to the reasons for my recent exceptionally bad mood.<\/p>\n
Sometimes one just gets crabby for no really good reason. I’ve been ready to pop somebody for a week or so. Nobody in particular – just whoever – though I notice that Don is keeping his distance lately. I think that I’m feeling a little stressed about getting the 100 pages of Book 4 ready for the editor, on top of trying to make arrangements for Colorado book signings (bookstore community relations managers are wonderful people but slow answerers), and prepare for a couple of talks coming up in the next two weeks. Also, I’ll be going to Ancorage for Bouchercon at the end of September. I’ll be on a historical mystery panel which I rashly volunteered to moderate, since there didn’t seem to be a crush of other people wanting to do it.<\/p>\n
Taken one at a time, none of these things are too daunting, but for some reason the combination is causing me some distress. I seem to get this way anyway just before a new book comes out. And then the web site crashes.<\/p>\n
But in the end, my sunny disposition reasserts itself (soon, I hope). The 100 pages are almost done. The web site reappears. And what do I really have to complain about? In the last few weeks, my poor sister totaled her car when some bozo ran a red light, her basement flooded from too much rain, her husband had to have a shunt put in an anuerism in his knee, her daughter may be facing a medical procedure, and on top of everything, she stepped on a rake and whacked herself in the face. And she perseveres through all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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