A heads-up, dear readers. The Blue Night Blog will be undergoing some much-needed updates in the next few weeks. So if things look a little strange, or the blog is offline, don’t worry.
I’ll be back to annoy and dazzle you soon enough.
What’s in store?
Changes in art: I’ll be updating my RL gallery list, reopening my Etsy account, updating Pinterest, and doing blog posts about fun new art, jewelry, and costume pieces. I may or may not be able to boast about scoring some major art grants this year. If not, they’re still worth the effort to enter, because all the collected material, CVs, and bio info can be used in other grant applications or promotional work.
Changes in writing: I need to make time to write. I have an amazing new day job that challenges me intellectually and physically…and pays the Arizona version of a living-wage. With benefits. For about 50 hours a week, often closer to 60.
Essentially, I’m earning the equivalent of 700 book sales a month. This isn’t to boast about how much my job pays (AZ wages are still lower than average), but how little small-press publishing pays. I don’t blame my publisher. NineStar Press is fearlessly doing things with LGBTQIA science-fiction and fantasy that Tor and the other Big Five are just now starting to attempt.
Even though the earnings are so low, I want to carve out time this year to finish several critical projects on my WIP list: the sequel to MORO’S PRICE (currently titled MORO’S SHIELD), a side novella to MORO called THE LEOPARD OF SABA, and the unrelated Neolithic M/M fantasy romance RED AMBER. I’m also feeling the short-fiction urge again, which (along with the Getty and Seager-Grey Gallery) seems to be an impassable brick wall I’m doomed to perennially smack into.
Wish me luck, kind people.