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The usual late afternoon editing distraction

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More coffee = ready for more editing

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I am already in 4 book groups that meet monthly but last night I dreamt that I was DESPERATELY searching for another. #booknerd

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I am already in 4 book groups that meet monthly but last night I dreamt that I was DESPERATELY searching for another. #booknerd

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Nighttime reading buddy

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Current situation: unable to reply to an important email because my cat is blocking the computer screen and I can’t find the reply button

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Photo from an all day conference last Saturday and I’m excited to be at another this Friday, where I’ll actually be taking pitches. Join us in person in Portland! portlandwritingworkshop.com

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Went to the grocery store and bought a bag of coffee, a bottle of wine, and a box of milk duds.

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That’s two days in a row that I’ve run the coffee maker in the morning WITHOUT the coffee grounds, making an awful lot of coffee-tinged hot water.

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And just like that - snap - inbox under 800 again.

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I always finish a book once I've started it. For years I've been trying to get to the point where I can not finish a book if I don't like it. I think THE SIRENS OF TITAN is going to finally push me into it.

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Truth telling time - anybody read Vonnegut for the first time as an adult and actually like him? I feel like everyone who loves him first read him as a young adult. I cannot get into him but started late.

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My sweet kitty sitting on my desk (when I’m there working he’s usually sprawled on the papers)

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Ok I’ve read like 40 pages of the book group book, showered, and answered more emails. Still haven’t touched the manuscript though.

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I was really hoping to read ~150 pages in the book I need to finish for book club next week and maybe the first third of a manuscript I need to read and so far…I’ve answered a few emails and that’s it for today.

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Happy Indie Bookstore Day, please tell your local indoor bookstores that you love them, preferably by purchasing a book

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It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...

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Putting together my monthly updates for all my clients out on sub and am reminded that this month we got a pass from an editor that I sent out to last May, so FYI it's not just agents that are backed up and way behind right now...

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PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week. They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions. Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

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Just unearthed my desk calendar from underneath all my papers and notes and look, I’m even further behind on that than queries and my inbox!

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Late for a school parent meeting because of how long it took me to locate the car keys. (Spoiler - they were in my pocket)

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Y’all, Amazon is bad for writers, bad for publishers, bad for customers, bad for workers. bad for democracy. Would be wonderful if we could break its stranglehold.

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My kid just interrupted my work to play me the a recording of the avengers theme song on kazoo, if you’re wondering why I haven’t gotten to your ms yet.

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I'm just a poor country political historian and not some big city media fella, but it does seem like a slightly big deal that the leader of the United States presented comically faked "evidence" in the Oval Office to justify his power to disappear ordinary people into a Central American prison?

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They’re not “deporting” people, they’re kidnapping them and sending them to foreign prisons. Concentration camps. They’re paying these countries to imprison humans. It’s human trafficking.

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The problem with Monday night book group is that all my other groups meet later in the week and so I forget I have to finish the books for this group by Monday (really, ideally, Sunday) and what I’m saying is that I have a lot of reading to do this evening and tomorrow.

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The founders had this thing they really cared about: “No person shall be… deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” And we are now seeing why they really cared about it.

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"I know I’m splitting hairs. When higher education is outlawed and your local post office is sold to a used car dealer, most people aren’t worried about naming conventions. But rules are rules dammit."

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Lap kitty

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Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx

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here’s a curse word free version of “look it up” as requested by countless teachers and librarians 🥰😘

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The problem with arriving early for a meeting is that when the person is just a few min late it feels like I’ve been waiting foreverrrrrrrrrr.

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I was going to go out for a drink with some people tonight but we started reading this for our family read-aloud last night and now I just want to stay home and read instead.

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Yesterday it was a pile of cat hair, today it’s this handmade (by my son) doll sitting in my chair. Hoping it got more work done for me than Dusty did.

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