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Thing One �� my friend, comics artist . I got him to do Chance earlier in the month, and I love her SO MUCH! See her? Isn’t she CUTE?

He’s also taking teen kid-style commissions and I truly truly love him and this art style and it’s a super great way to support an artist for a very reasonable commission price if there’s a character you’d like to see done for you, so�� go forth, buy a...

So in my friend Mame’s and my ongoing quest to do a full Bon Jovi retrospective, we discussed whether we were including Jon’s solo albums, although BLAZE OF GLORY was a given, if for no other reason than it’s so strongly linked, thematically, to the early studio albums. But I did ask if we were also going to do DESTINATION ANYWHERE, and at that point, Mame, very thoughtfully, pointed out that if we were going to do both of Jon’s solo albums, then in the name of fairness, we should also do Richie...

So I didn’t write up the antepenultimate adventure in England because as it turned out, we didn’t do all that much and ::laughs:: they wouldn’t let Teddy talk. :) We essentially finished defeating the monster–which the GM told us afterward was notoriously a Total Party Kill scenario, and which we survived basically unscathed–and the next morning decided that the only sensible thing for us to do was��

…visit the armory, leaning on Dylan (American sharpshooter) and Summerset (British lord)’s milita...

I’m down to about the last…five or so…Murphy Lawless books to update. The paranormal romances HAVE been vastly easier than the rest of the books, as anticipated, because they were all already in the right software, but man my brain is fried from doing these. I just want to be done. And I probably will be this afternoon, but whiiiiiiiine.

Aside from that, I’m…what am I doing. I’m writing a little. I’m trying to do the thing I BELIEVE in my HEART that I can do, which is have a morning project and ...

So a massive part of this never-ending admin has been a long-standing need to convert most of my CE Murphy titles into the book-making software I’m currently using. I’d done, eh, half or so, of them previously, but even that stuff needs a certain amount of regular updating. It gets easier with each iteration of the software, but still: basically, scut work.

I spent a full day doing the ‘easy�� stuff, the stuff that only required a relatively minor update to the backmatter to be ok, which got me t...

Today the re-release of DEMON HUNTS, book six of the Walker Papers, is in the wild!

It’s been the weirdest year of Joanne Walker’s life, and the last thing she wants is for it to go out with a bang, magically speaking.

Then again, she can’t remember the last time she got what she wanted, either. She’s lost Coyote, her shamanic mentor. The burgeoning relationship with her boss, Captain Morrison, has been put on the b...

how annoyed am i that that rhymes and ‘state of the catie�� doesn’t

I had a dream of knocking out 50K a month several times this year. So far I’ve not yet cracked 100K for the year. I realize it is only the 2nd of April and there’s plenty of time to do the former despite the latter. I’m still depressed about it. :p

And, like, yes, I had revisions the first working week of the year, and then I went afk for several working days, and then I had the Great Dropbox Disaster of 2025, which actually I’d ...

I stayed up too late last night to watch Cory Booker smash that old racist bastard’s filibuster record into dust, and it was fully worth it.

As soon as I woke up this morning, I picked up my phone to see how long he’d held the floor in the end, and the first thing I saw was “Pour one out for Madmartigan, lads.��

So between Cory Booker, Val Kilmer, & a lack of sleep, I’m pretty emotionally compromised this morning (which, phrased like that, sounds like it’s much more scandalous than it is, doesn’t...

On the admin front, I’m doing something that my EXTREMELY GOOD AT MARKETING friend  has been telling me to do for…a very long time…and which I am finally, for reasons I cannot explain, actually managing to get done now.

Actually, the reasons are probably “because I finally broke down and got that Bookfunnel account, and now I have the tools to do all the things she told me to.��

Anyway, she’s be...

I have spent way too much time this year doing admin. Like probably a full month, possibly six weeks, of work time has been spent on admin, not including the Great Dropbox Disaster of 2025 or the week+ I did of it in late 2024. SO MUCH admin.

A lot of it has been “once this is done, Future Catie’s life will be MUCH EASIER,�� and at this point, all of that admin is in fact done. That stuff was stuff I could not hand off to my husband, but, well, it’s done.

In theory a lot of the rest of it IS stuf...