It can't be Friday. I still have stress left.

Yes, I'm still here.  You can imagine that I was pleased with the results of the election - sanity won out over the rape-apologists and the white-men-must-rule-ites, and we now have 20 women in Congress, which most talking heads admit makes it more likely that we'll see compromise rather than bullheaded refusal to do so.  Not guaranteed, but more likely.  I cannot see that as a bad thing.  Work, Congress.  If any other employee had gotten as little done as you the past two years, they'd have been collecting unemployment long ago.

Also: national mandatory health care coverage is now the law of the land. It's not a perfect system by far, but it is, as above, a step in the direction of sanity and one-nation-for-all.

Meanwhile, after a local candidate called evolution and other areas of science "lies straight from the pit of hell," voters responded by casting 4,000 write-in votes for Darwin. Well-played, Georgia. Well-played.

Otherwise and in the more immediate world, I've been trying to get as much writing done on FiMyDaNoMo* as inhumanly possible before I head off to the wilds of the west coast to kick off the COLLARED release festivities in Seattle on the 13th.  The full schedule is here, plus you can check Facebook for details.

We also have a NYC signing date - Posman Books, 6pm on November 20th - and possibly more to come, after Thanksgiving.  So there's your holiday shopping, all wrapped up with a personalization!  :-)


And for those of us going mano-a-keyboard with our word count....

And that's all I got.  You?


*Finish My Damn Novel Month