Recalculating

[jgraeme2007]

I just don't feel ready for this new year. I'm already racing to catch up thanks to a couple of projects left from last year -- and then an untimely bout of flu which has me sounding like a cross between Lauren Bacall and end stage emphysema. But so many of you have been kind enough to ask what this year's schedule looks like, so here's how 2011 is

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[joey112]

This sounds like way too much work. Not that I'm complaining.

My location is in an exclusive relationship with Advil for cold and flu. And really I want to be done with it.

[jgraeme2007]

My location is in an exclusive relationship with Advil for cold and flu. And really I want to be done with it.

ME TOO.

[joey112]

I really hate the coughing thing on a holiday. Bleagh.

The only okay thing is that the weather in the central valley is grey and dreary. Time to read.

Going to try to break up with Advil, but he really is clingy.

[jgraeme2007]

Kind of a stalker, really.

[poxiemon]

*cheers* YAY! more books to read =D. That brief intro to Holmes & Moriarity sounds awesome - super excited to see where they're heading to next. Also can't wait to see Doyle and Spain again. I have a soft spot for them. Heck, I want to read them all. Right now. (But I'll be good and wait) =]

Glad to see you're feeling better too!

[jgraeme2007]

Glad to see you're feeling better too!

Thanks so much!

[bluesimplicity]

Wow - that sounds like quite an impressive (and heavy) workload. EVERYTHING sounds fabulous, especially the Dangerous Ground, and Holmes and Moriarity sequels. I also love the idea of Green Glass Beads - I'm enjoying your growth as an author in the area of fantasy

[jgraeme2007]

Drop that into 1 and a half cups of water and boil until it reduces to about a cup's worth. Drink it straight (no honey, lemon or anything like that.) It takes like hot pepper water basically, and is kinda gross. It will make you sweat and your chest will feel really warm. But, I swear, I've been drinking this stuff down, and it REALLY helps to clear out your chest

That sounds truly terrible. I'm going to hold off a day or two in the hope this will clear up without resorting to poison. ;-D

[darthanne]

Love the cover for Snowball in Hell. That does sound like a very busy schedule - I don't know how you do it. Looking forward to reading them.

Our local library has ordered copies of your collected novellas vol 1 &2 and the first Adrien book. They already have a few reserves on...

[jgraeme2007]

Our local library has ordered copies of your collected novellas vol 1 &2 and the first Adrien book. They already have a few reserves on...

music to my ears!

[rdafan7]

Really good news! Although I already buy all my JL I'll have to check into my library just to see if they have added the titles......

[darthanne]

Thanks! I had some good news last week when the American Library Association listed three of my last year's projects for their GLBT list: Strange Fortune, The Dark Tide, and the Golden Age of Gay Fiction (which I contributed an essay to).

A bright spot in all the coughing and sniffling.

[liriel1810]

Holy cow! You call that light? I mean, it's great that we've got all this reading to look forward to, but don't kill yourself doing it, Josh.

The new cover for Snowball in Hell looks great and I'm looking forward to the second book in the series. ;)

Also looking forward to the next Kit and JX (loved All She Wrote. JX is a very patient man, fortunately for Kit!). Kit unpacks a moving crate and finds a body inside. Now that's really having skeletons in the closet... uh, well, sort of. *g*

Hope your flu leaves soon and you feel much better!

[jgraeme2007]

Holy cow! You call that light? I mean, it's great that we've got all this reading to look forward to, but don't kill yourself doing it, Josh.

Well, three of the books are basically done: Snowball is already edited and ready to go, Yellow Sands is in the copyedit phase, Mummy Dearest just needs a bit of fleshing in here and there. So that's three out of seven where I don't have much to do. Which only leaves four for sure projects and a short story that I have to write from scratch.

That's not so bad at all. And that's why I think I'll have time to add the other two projects in even if they don't get published until next year.

[liriel1810]

4 1/2 is definitely more doable than 7 1/2. I was seriously fearing for your sanity, mate. *g*

[jgraeme2007]

4 1/2 is definitely more doable than 7 1/2. I was seriously fearing for your sanity, mate. *g

Yes, to have blown my resolution of a sensible schedule in the first two weeks of the new year would be a bad sign.