I spent the entire weekend writing a short story for the Sword & Sorceress anthology. 9,000 words in three days, and that's after cutting another 3,000 + words in unnecessary scenes and revised endings. Even for me, that's a lot of writing!

Now I'm waiting for a couple of readers to get back to me with revisions so I can finish it off this week and send it in. In the meantime, I'm back to other business.

Regarding Lisa Haneberg's tour, she'll be at the Fayette County Library in Fayetteville, Georgia on June 5 at 7:00 PM. So for all you local readers, we'd love to have you come out and join us! I'm also working on making some other connections for Lisa while she's here in town, so I've spent maybe half an hour on that in e-mails and such this morning. Other than that, things have been pretty quiet around here.

Speaking of quiet, I'm still waiting to hear from Barnes & Noble about my application to their affiliate program. I was hoping to start on integrating those links into the website today, but with no news on that front, I guess it's on hold.

With the short story off my plate for the moment and most of my other current business waiting on responses, I'm finally going to have a few hours today to clean the house, do some laundry, and pay the bills before heading out to do some tutoring this evening.

I should probably mention more about the tutoring, for other aspiring authors out there...

The simple truth is that it takes a while before writing pays enough to live on--sometimes a long while. So most writers hold other jobs early in their careers to suport their writing. I'm fortunate enough to be able to work part time rather than full time at my second job, but I should mention that in the midst of my marathon writing spree this weekend, I also took about five hours out of the day on Sunday to hold two tutoring sessions, one in SAT math and the other in GRE math.

Just another day in the life of writer...