Try, try again

Aside from apparently having some black hole in my memory where the fact that it is Friday falls in, I have had two good reasons for not being properly up-to-date with my blog - my apologies.

Reason the first: I am having a real problem with RSI, making it important to prioritize story-writing. I am still having problems there (although I may be investing in some speech recognition software - I hope to try it out today), so this will be a short post.

Reason the second: I had news, but wasn't ready to share it. Well, it wasn't sharing-ready. It is now.

News:
1.) Grisaille in Brown is out on April 28th. The title is Brown: Grisaille in Sand and Sunset.
1b) I just got, yesterday, the cover-art request form (for Grisaille in Brown). I'd seen it already, so it wasn't like I didn't know what to expect - but it was surprisingly hard to pin down what I wanted to say. I'll definitely be filling them out in advance, in future. But the really interesting thing for me wasn't just the filling out the form, and musing on what the cover might look like (though that was fun). The really interesting thing was that it was just how hard it was to answer some of the questions. I really think that thinking about those questions in advance will help me as a writer, and that was something very cool to discover.

2.) Those keeping up at home may remember that Grisaille in Brown is the first part of a two part (I hesitate to say series, because the stories do stand alone, but) series, and that Grisaille in Gray is out in September. BUT! There is another piece rounding out our tale, currently called Pentimento: Poppy, with is an interlude, of sorts, between Brown and Gray. Again, they all stand alone, and I think there are advantages that Poppy is out first, in terms of storytelling, regardless of chronology.
2b) Pentimento: Poppy should be out, all going well, March 17th, which yes, is St. Patrick's day (come along to the Torquere Social Happy Hour that day!)

3.) Speaking of the Happy Hour, I will be there the following days:
Tues. March 9th
Weds. March 17th
Thur. April 22nd
Weds. April 28th

Okay, back to Grisaille in Gray - which, please be patient if/when you see me writing it as 'Grey' here, as grey is the default spelling of gray in my head - but the title is 'Gray'.

If at first you don't succeed

Yes, I forgot the Friday-blogging thing the very first Friday after I announced it. But, in my defense I was VERY busy Friday, writing something, but it's a little bit of a secret. Hopefully I can say more next week.