EXTREMES

Just a quick post to announce that I am back! I won't be blogging regularly here for a bit, mostly because I'm doing a number of guest posts and interviews for other authors and book bloggers as part of my novella release. (list of appearances here - please check back for updates)

I will say that I was a bit shocked when I returned to Alaska. I wasn't gone long, fewer than ten days. But I went from this:

to...I can't even show you pictures. It's so miserable. Lovely, yes. Crisp and bright but also cold as [insert obscenities here].

In those pics above, it's between 75 and 85 degrees. Ideal. Here? It's been between -5 and -15. NOT IDEAL. I guess, when we're away, the frost giants will play.

The good news is that it's now there's a ribbon of light on the horizon when I leave work. Two weeks ago, it was full dark. That, my dears, is an improvement.

TIME OFF FOR GOOD BEHAVIOR

I'll be off the blog for, ohhhh, maybe ten days. For good behavior. Or...behavior, at any rate.

THINGS

*looks around. smiles*

I see we all survived 2011. Nice. Very nice. Please give yourselves a round of applause. It was a wild one.

2012, for me, starts with:

• a tbr pile as tall as my house
• two scheduled trips, courtesy of a lot of ambition on cybermonday
• a planned trip to the RWA National meeting in Anaheim (give me a shout if you think you'll be there)
• a novella release on the 16th (!)
• a happy, healthy, frighteningly intelligent toddler
• and a car that needs an oil change (it's not all good)

What have you got going for you this week, month, year?