I have this thing, right, where the year begins to feel... speeded up in the last quarter. I'm bimbling along, quite happily, and it's August or early September, then I blink and we're halfway through November and Mariah Carey is playing at the supermarket. You'd think I'd learn to expect it, but every year it surprises to me.
Which is to say, another Friday has arrived and we're back for another edition of The Sitrep, my weekly update for paid subscribers on me, the writing life and other topics of interest.
This week, the paperback of my second novel came out, I proofed over a hundred pages of my third novel, I ran 10k for the first time, I had many, many appointments and I drank too much tea. Let's get into it.