Back from the hospital, I now face six weeks of treatment with two antibiotics and staying off the right foot as much as possible or using a walker to get around and having to find others for driving me where I need to go. I won't be able to return to that cleaning job I'm unsuitable to do lacking stamina for hard work. Maybe I'll get a better job offer from somewhere else I applied this year (I'm not holding my breath waiting for such an opportunity, but God has permitted greater miracles than that in this world).
I hope to use the sudden wealth of free time to work on some novels I've been itching to write this year. First, I want to finish another novel for my Jack Petrov - Private Investigator/Vampire Hunter series (the working title Beware any Dark Land Mirrored), having about 77 pages of it completed as a rough draft. Second, I need to get the second Sepharata novel written (Sister Catherine versus the Volcano People - at present just a detailed outline). I also hope to get a few short fiction pieces done if possible, but those have taken on lower priority for me this year (having written only two new stories so far). I still await some answer from four different short fiction markets - all paying anywhere from $3 to $250 depending upon the payment rate for acceptance - but still there is only silence from those quarters. I'm also waiting to see if Ace Books has any interest in purchasing my first Sepharata novel (Sister Helena of the Sword), but that is probably unlikely since I took the step of self-publishing it first and it's not selling well. One relative in-law is convinced I'd be successful if only I could get better known. The problem is I'm not great with self-promotion and am in no shape to travel anywhere for promoting my work right now and the next six weeks on an injured right foot. It would take a miracle for my would-be career to even flourish slightly.
I hope to use the sudden wealth of free time to work on some novels I've been itching to write this year. First, I want to finish another novel for my Jack Petrov - Private Investigator/Vampire Hunter series (the working title Beware any Dark Land Mirrored), having about 77 pages of it completed as a rough draft. Second, I need to get the second Sepharata novel written (Sister Catherine versus the Volcano People - at present just a detailed outline). I also hope to get a few short fiction pieces done if possible, but those have taken on lower priority for me this year (having written only two new stories so far). I still await some answer from four different short fiction markets - all paying anywhere from $3 to $250 depending upon the payment rate for acceptance - but still there is only silence from those quarters. I'm also waiting to see if Ace Books has any interest in purchasing my first Sepharata novel (Sister Helena of the Sword), but that is probably unlikely since I took the step of self-publishing it first and it's not selling well. One relative in-law is convinced I'd be successful if only I could get better known. The problem is I'm not great with self-promotion and am in no shape to travel anywhere for promoting my work right now and the next six weeks on an injured right foot. It would take a miracle for my would-be career to even flourish slightly.