Things Happened!
This week my Expected Tasks teamed up with Unexpected Challenges to make life exciting.
I finished my laptop cleanup and found a lot of cool things I’d forgotten were there (this is a Life Theme for me, as you may have noticed) AND I finally got stickers and clings mailed out to the Patreon backers who wanted them and provided me with addresses.
In any usual week, that would’ve been more than enough reason to feel Accomplished. But meanwhile, our smol refrigerator had an identity crisis & decided it was a freezer, which resulted in lots of surprise fun cleanup. By which I mean, sticky, messy, yucky cleanup.
Not to be outdone by a mere appliance, the garage door decided it would make a better wall than door That required 2 after-hours repair calls because of course it’s the one week we NEEDED a car for weekend plans, and of course the first call didn’t get taken seriously until we called back.
AND the weather was in “HAHAHA NO SLEEP FOR YOU” pressure yo-yo mode all week long.
So. Anyway. I’m feeling pretty proud of myself for making it to Sunday without any stress meltdowns. And no eczema flare-up either.
Organized files, a working fridge, a working garage door, pretty flowers in the yard, and no health issues at the moment. Big wins all around.
Time for pics o’ the week! Proof of mailing in progress, a glamour shot of Pippin resting after being ever so helpful with the mailings, and a peek at the pollinator haven at the back of my yard.
Until later!
What’s on your bookshelf?
This is the part where I talk about my books.
Relics From A Traveling Show
The newest of the new! A collection of all my short fictions in one handy volume, available now from your favorite booksite or local shop.
Or! OR! if you like your local library, you could request a purchase. Free for you, sale for me, everyone wins.
Most libraries need the following info for ordering print books:
Title: Relics From A Traveling Show
Author: K. M. Herkes
ISBN: 9781945745201 (paperback)
Every library system does things a little differently, but most want their collections to serve their communities, so most of them are very responsive to patron requests.
If you like novels more than short stories, I recommend my series The Rollover Files for hopepunk tales of about an alternate world where moms with midlife crisis superpowers have been saving the world and making the military nervous since 1943.
I also have a completed, quirky slow-burn science fiction thriller duology with a romance chaser: The Stories Of The Restoration.
All my titles are available from Amazon, Apple, Kobo, Hoopla, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, Overdrive and many other fine booksellers.
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Be a potato.
" Fear is strange soil. Mainly it grows obedience like corn, which grows in rows and makes weeding easy. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground."
Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)