I know...I know...it's been a while since my last post and it looks as if my Christmas holiday will never end. It was an amazing and terrific time. So getting back to work was much harder than I anticipated. But work found me and so I have been in a muddled but fascinating haze of working on a new website for a local small press that specializes in nautical and historical fiction and nonfiction. (Let me know if you have an age of sail novel, or a western, or a fantasy Napoleon, Queen of Sheba, or viking novel languishing in your bottom drawer.) I have been doing endless dreary bookkeeping for my husband's nonprofit in preparation of tax time and the eventual audit (now there's a horror novel waiting to happen), reading a ton of Emile Zola for an upcoming conference next week, and doing long distance repairs on one of my children's homes while he is out of the country. So my first two weeks have been ... interesting.
Still it's fun to be back. Enjoy the image above, a 1915 study by Russian avantgard artist Mikhail Fiodorovich Liadov for the forest decor of the ballet Baba Yaga. Whenever I am doing too much that is not directly related to my work, I always think of it as being in Baba Yaga's woods -- a trip that is perilous, but filled with possibilities.
