Monthly Archives: March 2009
I am still on hiatus but Drollerie is not!
| March 12, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Drollerie Press |
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Most of you who read this are probably seeing the news elsewhere, but just in case: Drollerie is promoting Read an E-Book Week by handing out various free copies of our authors’ works. You have until Saturday to scamper over yonder for a shot at free e-book goodness, including participating in a drawing of all registered users on the site for a whole bunch of free Drollerie books.
Also as a general heads up, if you miss out on this event, be on the lookout for further goodness next month as Drollerie celebrates its second anniversary.
And of course, watch this space for news on when you can find Faerie Blood available there, too. It’ll be a bit yet–my editor has a lot of work to do on books besides mine, and at any rate, I’m still coming back from surgery mode. But in the meantime I will in particular point y’all at Sarah Avery’s Closing Arguments and Joely Sue Burkhart’s Beautiful Death. Especially the latter. In addition to being a nice little SF romance, the book itself is gorgeous even in PDF form, and I very much would like to own a physical copy of it.
So go help Joely out and check out her book. Tell her I sent you!
It's amazing what correct thyroid levels can do
| March 2, 2009 | Posted by annathepiper under Lament of the Dove |
In all the fun I’ve had with breast cancer for the last many months (and by “fun” I mean “experiences I would like to never, ever have to do again”), it’s been easy to forget that I’ve also got no thyroid. Which means that if I don’t have my thyroid meds at the exact right level, my brain skews off. It becomes harder to focus. It becomes harder to sleep, which in turn contributes to the whole focusing problem. And that, of course, makes it harder to write. Which gets me stressed on top of being scatterheaded and tired, which makes it even harder to write. A nasty cycle, all around.
I’m taking two thyroid meds right now: T4 and T3. T3 is the more powerful thyroid hormone, and my dosage is between one and two tablets of that per day as needed. A dogged little corner of my brain chimed up finally and went “so, uh, hey, maybe back off the T3 a bit?” So I tried that.
And I’ve slept well enough the last couple of nights that I’ve recovered enough brain to make it through another page of editing Lament of the Dove. Not only that, but to also put in a little bit of a callback to Faanshi and Julian’s first meeting, one which Julian does on purpose, and which is supposed to signal his reaching a turning point in his relationship with Faanshi. Here’s hoping I gave it the right words.
Edited tonight: +230
Chapter 19 revised total: 4,923
Lament of the Dove revised total (fourth draft): 121,622
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