Why yes, I’m a nervous wreck. Why do you ask?
It’s totally not because I’m pitching Shattered to an agent in two weeks. Not at all.
Yeah, I am so lying.
On a happier note, I’ve decided to branch out and support other artists! Aside from the whole ‘bracelet with every book complete’ thing, I’m also trying to commission some of the critters. Right now, I’m in an awesome collaboration with a crochet artist to make Moonfire, a baby wyvern. We finally settled on the color scheme, and Moonfire is going to look fantastic! I wish I had that level of talent with yarn. I can straight crochet and make a blanket or a scarf, but that’s about it. Moonfire won’t show up until later in the Melusine’s Endgame series, but I saw this person’s work, and had to get in on it. She has even expressed interest in taking a stab at Petrie the Irate Archaeopteryx!
The school year is starting to wind down. We are in the last week of 3rd quarter, and after that, let’s just say 8 weeks will fly by. If you’re in education in any way, you know that there tends to be so much crammed into 4th quarter that it seems like everything is spinning (which is weird, because 3rd quarter is usually an almighty slog). MAP testing, end-of-year trips, 8th grade graduation for me, Spring Break, all of that in the next few weeks. Oh, and I have to finish two more units in that time. May or may not happen…I’m not so sure there’s enough days in the rest of the year for that to work. At least the last unit is Evolution and Common Ancestry, which is totally my wheelhouse as an amateur paleontologist.
I will admit, the end of the year is shaping up to be strange. Renovations have started in the building (yes, even while students are still in session), and the changes are already drastic. Tiles being taken up, lockers removed, displays gone…all this in the past couple of days. The halls are going to look mighty strange in the next couple of weeks. I get where it’s going, and I do think it will look amazing in the end, but it’s a bit of a culture shock right now.
Now to work on Moonstone Wish. I broke 50k words last night! I’m a little over halfway done!
Hilary