This month I got a new client and lost an old one, am nearly finished with a novel edit, am editing a short as a reward for an A&A patron, and started a new LinkedIn page. I’d abandoned LinkedIn several years ago when I was still doing professional safety management as an independent contractor but every Tom, Thomasina, Dick, Harry and Harriet newbie writer who wanted to glom onto me as editor of Abyss & Apex was competing with every unemployed safety manager who wanted me to hire them. I ran a sole-proprietorship safety LLC (sole – no employees, okay?) and stated EXPLICITLY that my LinkedIn was for safety work – but this did not deter the hopeful spammers. It was more trouble than it was worth. Now that I work exclusively as a freelance editor we’ll see if this iteration is more useful.

I’m very excited about the project I am currently working on, which – for a change – is not science fiction or fantasy: I Swear I’m Not Insane by C.M. Petersen. I love the author’s use of Kill Bill-variety literary jump-cuts that create its slow reveal! The manuscript will be going to the author for one last check this weekend before the proofreader gets it, and the cover is amazing.

I’ll let you all know when it comes out.