Hmm… it’s been quiet around here. Don’t worry, I haven’t run off to join the circus or gone on a six-month bender. It’s worse than that: I’ve been employed. I hadn’t been quite ready to look for a job, but there it was: freelance, the right number of hours, working from home, getting paid to be pedantic as a copyeditor for a news startup that doesn’t suck. How could I say no? I would have preferred to spend those hours on creative work, but getting a paycheck is nice, and building a resume is, I suppose, necessary if I want to get more writing and editing jobs.
I’ve been slack about updating my blog, but I’m still working on various book projects. In fact, since my last update I’ve started a new middle-grade novel (about 20 pages done so far) and a new picture book (plotted, half-written, first few pages of storyboard sketched out). I posted my embarrassing old NaNoWriMo romance novel on Wattpad under a fake name. I’ve written a few more chapters of a mystery novel. I’ve finished a few more illustrations for Stealing the Show. And I baked a Harry Potter birthday cake that looked like spellbooks. (That counts, right?)
Anyway, this is me jumping back in. More posts and project updates soon.
michelle heimburger 