What Rest?

May 25, 2009 by Naomi.

So here I am with one more day to work toward self publishing. Saturday was well spent and THE OPEN DOOR is ready for a cover design from Nancy when she gets time to do my stuff. I worked diligently on WILDLY IN THE ROCKIES Sunday, planning to stick to the computer until Ginny McIntyre called and wanted to have me over for a dinner party. She loves to cook and the more eaters the better. I begged off at first but then decided that by five pm I would need a break anyway.

Ginny picked Margaret, who was going to educate me on the group with which she went to Cuba. Once upon a time when I had traveling money I wanted to go there. Upon hearing the details I knew that traveling with a prayerful bunch of preachers would be beyond my endurance. We had some Mexican stuffing in a flour wrapping that was delicious and filling, although not so much that I couldn’t fit in hot rhubarb pie, all the while sipping cold salty Margaritas.

The alcohol disturbed my sleep off and on, as did the warm night air. Temperature hovered around sixty F degrees, too warm for my Pendleton blanket but too chilly without. I was up at 5 am for a fresh tomato and peas, thinking I could save electricity if I limited opening the fridge door only once to take out what I needed and once more to put stuff back. That took more planning than I was prepared for with a hangover so I blundered on.

Looking forward I have one more week of school kids at McNary — three days of first graders — then school and kids visits are over. I have two weeks to draw the figures for the childrens book about insects. Completion with Dan’s help is a hope I have of that book after June 15. Also a Createspace endeavor because iUniverse will not do childrens books. That publishing house does a good job of putting a book together but with considerable cost. I expect to have in hand a 350 page romance of Western/Intrigue for my perusal by the end of next week. If I approve it will be on Amazon, Books in Print, Barnes and Nobel and other top notch places.

Today is the last full day of non-stop editing, although my hips scream for relief that I cannot deny so there will be stops for basking under the full sun in this wonderful desert.

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