One of my friends who still works at the health insurance company where I used to work just emailed me with this update—

“We are now being run by Nazis that won’t let you use any of your PTO unless Hitler comes back from the dead and approves it.”

Makes me very happy that I’m not there any more, that’s for sure. And that things are sort-of moving forward on the fiction writing front as well. The email from Amazon notified me that my entry is eligible for the Breakthrough Novel Award and is entering the first round of judging. Meaning, hey, it got into the first 5000 eligible entries that make up round one.

Yeaaay Meeee! (said like Frank Caliendo)

Also, after a spot of some self-doubt, a good chat with Robin turned me around to realizing that no, I have not fucked up my third second novel that I’m writing. We also had some great brainstorming (mostly through her relentless I-heart-mysteries-without-plotholes-fuck-you-chris-carter-questioning) that led to a very much tightened up second half of the book outline. And both of those things gave me a much brightened new perspective.

And one day, we will make me such an optimist that I won’t check both ways before crossing a one-way street.

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