dancinghorse | Comatosity

This post-novel coma is less acute than some; it can't last too long because there are too many projects backed up behind it. I have, since Monday, mailed the hardcopy, emailed the e-copy plus the next proposal (for which at LUNA we are paid), received a deadline for promo materials for Shattered Dance (pub date October) and the Mountain's Call mass market (pub date September), reread the draft of the new Tor book which will be getting its revision notes this weekend and started drafting its sequel (new series, French medieval with serial numbers filed off, Tres Riches Heures meets the fall of the Templars in the Ste.-Chapelle and says, "Mon chere, we have got to stop meeting like this"), and done a bunch of mentor-victim work. Mentees with mss., send 'em on, we're ready. First come, first served.

Taminy-cat is significantly better. He's eating again and acting like his normal perky self; even seems to be gaining a tiny amount of weight. Spot-the-Dog seems to be improving with a shift in her meds. Pooka is still waiting to hear from vet and farrier, If I don't get any action there by the first of the week, there will be calls made. He's bored out of his skull, not helped by both Pandora and Ephiny being in early spring heat. A bored stallion is a prancy stallion. Not good for problem feet. Right now he's charging the wall of his stall and biting the bars in a fit of terminal annoyance with someone out in the turnout.

Boy needs a job.

Horse Camp is suffering from the curse of "Great idea! Sorry I can't make it." If this is going to happen at all, it needs participants. We have four day-camper slots and one possible boarder slot still available at the end of February, and two and six available in May right after the Nebulas. Great ideas can't achieve reality if no one shows up to make them real. Think it's a great idea? Come and play!

Mentoring however is going well. There are slots available still, and this is a great time to catch me, with the next book deadline in June. I'm really enjoying this; had thought it might be a problem for the creative energies to edit and write at the same time, but except for the final book blitz when I'm totally crazed and incapable of doing anything else but blitz the book, it's proving to be a very nice warmup and refresher for the day's pages.

Not to mention I get to read a lot of varied and enjoyable new fiction. :)

Must work up website for all of this. Yes. Next week. For sure.

Riding has been minimal since last week. Too much information to process from there on top of the book blitz. Lessons got canceled yesterday--Teacher's daughter had a sick day--which was good for me because I really really needed the time to get my brain off the hamster wheel. It's still spinning at 10 zillion rpm and is having trouble slowing down. Keeps insisting it's late, late, late! And we have to work, work, work!

I need to talk to Teacher before I can neep effectively. The short version is, I got my seat taken to a new level, got my body de-crooked-fied (which means it feels horribly crooked when it's straight), and learned some techniques for softening up the solid walls of muscle that are Pook and Camilla. I'm still trying to wrap my brain around it all.

In the meantime it's all about the insanity.

And for them as asked how Pooka can take his shoe off from the back, here is a