I’m still working on edits for Aether and Ego (my space fantasy Pride and Prejudice retelling), finishing the substantive editing stage (currently fixing a continuity error). In between bouts of editing, I am outlining the plot of a time travel novel.

I also have a full-time temp job at the moment, filling in for a person who is out sick, doing similar work to my executive assisting at Vanderbilt, but for a community health centre in Halifax. It’s nice to use those parts of my brain again and to be able to afford our roof repairs. And I’ve started the mural I mentioned in my last newsletter (most recent progress timelapse here)!

Just published: A poem in Blue Unicorn’s autumn issue and two haiku whose publication I missed at the time in Failed Haiku’s June issue. One of those haiku is about the beautiful orchid I watered religiously for eight months before I discovered its terrible secret.

Currently reading: Murderbot, again; this is comfort reading. I also just finished Nick Mamatas’ excellent SFF retelling of Tempest, Kalivas!

Have a great remainder of 2025!

_{Title is from James Shea’s “Thinking of Work.“}