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What I'm Reading Now

20/10/2015

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About two weeks ago I had a mini freak-out in my kitchen. A GOOD freak-out. I actually jumped up and down and squealed "I don't have to work on the PhD any more!"

This means that I can read. WHATEVER I WANT. Yes, you read that right: I get to wallow in books again. 

So far this month I've read (In addition to a boat-load of short fiction and writing that's about writing I've assigned to my students):
  • the latest in the Outlander Series (Diana Gabaldon's Written in My Own Heart's Blood), after taking most of the year to read the whole series again (Yes, I'm a total geek and have to read every book in order before I get to start a new one). 
  • Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven
  • Paul Cornell's Witches of Lychford
  • Chris Daugherty's Zombie Inc.
  • Elizabeth Hand's Wylding Hall
  • not quite half of Scott Lynch's The Republic of Thieves: Book Three of the Gentlemen Bastards
  • The Intro to Neil Gaiman's Trigger Warning
  • and the very beginning of Nicola Griffith's Hild
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Here, have a photo of some October flowers.
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So Just What Happens Next?

6/10/2015

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That's what I'm trying to figure out. 

My paperwork from uni is official, and graduation in Tuesday. So there's that.
I'm teaching this term: an MA Short Story Workshop class and (as 'monitor') an MA Publishing class. 

I'm writing: I have a handful of short stories to finish and start subbing. I've got one sitting with an editor who 'might' want it (waiting to hear back; it's gone up to the EiC). I might do NaNoWriMo to get the next novel under way. And I am subbing Threading. 

But.

Yeah, there's always a But.

I have applied for a one-year extension on my visa, and I am applying for job-jobs. But as of next April the minimum wage for a sponsored job goes up by almost 100%! So I have to find a job very very soon...or after my year is up I am most likely outta here. And I swear, if 'so just get married' crosses one more person's lips, I'll scream. I didn't do this past five years of work to 'find a husband'. I've been there, done that. And I want to get to stay in the UK because of what I do, not because of I bind myself to someone else.
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So I stay here, in limbo, and wait. I wait for a yes from the short story editor. For a maybe (or, crossmyfingers, a yes) from an agent or novel publisher. And a yes from an employer. Perhaps then I can move on to what's next...whatever that is.
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