A\u00a0 lot, actually.\u00a0\u00a0 Where we left off, the Mozart Requiem–it went well, even though I was beginning to feel off, and sure enough was sick the week following with a nasty sore throat.\u00a0\u00a0 Got better, and was able to sing one service the next Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0 We had a small birthday party for our son.\u00a0\u00a0 Everything seemed to be moving well towards Thanksgiving but this past week, we had some bad medical news.\u00a0 My husband will need another cancer surgery–there’s a new tumor in his stomach.<\/p>\n
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There’s not a whole lot to say about that except…you do what you have to do and get on with things.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There will be appointments and more tests and so on, and then the surgery.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t know when yet; the next appointment is this Friday.<\/p>\n
I’ve seen two iterations of the new cover for the e-book.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s quite nice.\u00a0 I can’t show it to you yet.\u00a0\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 There’s still Discussion going on.\u00a0\u00a0 Thus no release date yet (not that I’ve been told anyway.)\u00a0 There’s tinkering with fonts.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There’s me sitting on my hands to not interfere.\u00a0 Or there was, until the medical news came in.\u00a0 At that point…far less tempatation.<\/p>\n
The new book is coming along, although it stopped dead in its tracks at the bad news and is not moving quite as fast as before.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ky is having to work with people she’s never met before, in a situation where only great leadership can hold off disaster.\u00a0 Other people are doing the “When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream, and shout” dance.\u00a0 There are some new mysterious elements…who actually does the terraforming that has transformed so many planets into habitable-for-humans ones and how?\u00a0 And why?\u00a0\u00a0 And…are they ever coming back?\u00a0\u00a0 (Not in this book, they aren’t.\u00a0 Maybe not in any.\u00a0 But the thought did occur.)<\/p>\n
In other news, I’m involved in a community thing in which–by sheer accident and thinking “It never hurts to ask advice”–led to this very small town getting a world-famous string quartet to come play here.\u00a0 On January 25.\u00a0\u00a0 I had no idea such a thing was even possible.\u00a0 That’s now…really close, in terms of getting all the ducks in a row with their bills polished and their feet clean, so to speak.\u00a0 (Music stands.\u00a0 I still need to locate three–I have a good one.)\u00a0\u00a0 Many thanks to the Austin Chamber Music Center<\/a> (edited Wed. night to correct ACMC’s name!) \u00a0 for their help, and the Aeolus Quartet<\/a> for their enthusiasm for outreach.\u00a0\u00a0 As the contact person, however, I’m the one who has to herd all those ducks–while everything else is going on.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A\u00a0 lot, actually.\u00a0\u00a0 Where we left off, the Mozart Requiem–it went well, even though I was beginning to feel off, and sure enough was sick the week following with a nasty sore throat.\u00a0\u00a0 Got better, and was able to sing one service the next Sunday.\u00a0\u00a0 We had a small birthday party for our son.\u00a0\u00a0 Everything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,5],"tags":[112,31,107],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","category-the-writing-life","tag-life-beyond-writing","tag-the-book-business","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2350,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions\/2350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}