Thank you Google (NOT) for costing me some days of work to fill out your stupid forms to remove my work from your clutches.<\/p>\n
It is impossible for a writer to just say “Do not include any of my work in your digitization.”\u00a0 It’s not even possible to say “Do not include any editions of this work, foreign or domestic.”\u00a0 No, you have to go through the whole damnfool search & destroy procedure for every single version of every single title and sometimes you hit the wrong button and have to start over.<\/p>\n
Also I’m printing out the current draft of Book Two because I need to see it off the screen.\u00a0\u00a0 So there will be a hiatus until I’ve dealt with Google (not, alas, with a flaming sword) and gotten my stuff “claimed.”<\/p>\n
Those of you waiting for word on being alpha readers, or having already cleared the hurdle and waiting for the whole ms, my apologies.\u00a0 The wait will last a bit longer.\u00a0 I’m not spending my Saturday dozing in the sun, I can tell you that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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