Okay, so I understand that a few of my hard-core blog readers aren’t going to be happy with only the newsletter/blog combo for this week once Friday morning dawns, so I had best get busy.

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So what have I been doing this week?  Fighting my way through pre-tour details.  Playing travel agent by making airline reservations and rental car connections both for the tour and for the trip to the University of Massachusetts event at the end of March.  Getting all those pieces to match up is no simple task.  Oh, and yesterday I had to have the full-meal-deal beauty treatment in advance of yesterday afternoon’s video shoot for the The Art and Business of Writing, a 9 day workshop for wannabe writers that I’ll be teaching at the University of Arizona at the end of May.  I don’t have enrollment details on that yet, but once I do, they will be posted.  Even so, the video shoot was fun, and I’m hoping to be able to post some of that on the website as well.

This morning I’ve answered approximately 100 e-mail queries that showed up as a result of the newsletter mailing.  I’ve also done three phone interviews for Moving Target so far this week.  There’s another one due tomorrow.  When I’m in Arizona, it’s always a challenge to make sure the interviewer has me at the right time zone.  This becomes especially tricky when Daylight Savings switches on and Arizona is suddenly on Pacific Time instead of Mountain

And then there’s my real job, my day job–I’m supposed to be writing a book.  When I went on Book Tour duty, Ali Reynolds and B. were about to have a conversation about what to do to help their daughter-in-law, Athena, cope with her aging grandmother’s issues from half a continent away.  And now, if you’ll forgive me, I’ll stop blogging and get back to that scene in Unnamed Ali # 10.  After all, blogging is my hobby.  It doesn’t pay the bills.