• Challenge,  Fun Stuff

    A Long Move…

    Still a ton to do, but we are in the new place!! At the moment I am not, because I didn’t have time to put my new office together, so I am sitting in a mostly empty former business condo (#143), at a large dining room table we will give to a charity at some point, doing this and running through my email. Tomorrow I put my office together. Move started a little after 7 am when Kris and I rounded up the two boys from #907 in two carriers and put them in a bathroom upstairs in #1401. Then I got the little girl into her carrier and we…

  • Challenge,  Fun Stuff

    Back Home and Exhausted

    Truck Arrives Early In The Morning… So no time tonight to respond to email, but by Thursday I should be sort of recovered to do assignments as I promised. I got exactly four hours of sleep in Boise last night. Worth every penny of the hotel room costs. Got here around 7 pm, fell down on the bed for a short time, then watched a little television and am doing this now because, you know… a streak of blogs. So up early again tomorrow, then once all the boxes and shelves and such are in the new office and the movers are headed back north, I can rest. I can…

  • Challenge,  Misc

    One Scary Long Day

    Started at 6:30 am… Made a ton of progress. Got homes for most everything. Picked up, packed, and moved a ton of boxes. Didn’t get back to the room here until 9:30, so 15 hours, a lot of steps, and a ton of exercise. Got some photos of what it looked like when I started. But had great help, Chis and Steve York brought me dinner, and talked with a ton of friends stopping by. I would have some pictures that I took today, but can’t get them to load. So will do that when I get back. Working on an iPad has limitations, especially when exhausted. Don’t forget there…

  • On Writing,  publishing

    Workshops, Bundle, and Big Estate Move Day One

    All Workshops for February Started… March Sign-up Available… If you are signed up for a February workshop and haven’t gotten the opening letter from me, write me at once. March workshops are now on deck. A good list. Winter Mysteries Bundle. I’m in a great bundle right now on Bundlerabbit with one of my Cold Poker Gang novels. It’s called The Winter Mysteries Bundle. This is a great deal and you might want to check it out, folks. Some great books in this one. Click on the image. And scroll down on the page. You can buy the bundle not only from Bundlerabbit, but from Amazon, Kobo, B&N and others.…

  • News

    Big Estate Move

    Ready as We Can Be… Worked until almost 1 a.m. at the estate house. Packing boxes and sorting through garbage. As I told Kris tonight, our friend’s house is one-third the size of our house and had ten times the amount of stuff in it. Chris York and J. Steven York came by again today and worked for hours with me. Lifesavers. And Kris brought me food and drink and checked in at times to make sure I wasn’t buried under a pile of garbage. Steve tackled a garage that I had just walked the trail through, afraid to even look around. He found some really amazing stuff out there in…