Life Gets In the Way

It has been a *long* time since I've posted on this blog. I'm sure most of you thought I'd given up, eh? Well, you guessed... right. It just wasn't intentional.

You see, I have several other blogs that I maintain. I review for four review websites, I have four additional blogs (two group blogs I manage and two personal blogs), in addition to trying to write actual books. It's just unreal. Some of these blogs, I will never post the addresses for on here. You won't want to read them, honestly. But some of them I might.

Suffice to say, it's hard for me to keep up with everything.

So this poor little blog, my Silent Word, drops to the bottom of my Blogger Dashboard and just sits there. And eventually, I stop wanting to update it. Not because I don't have anything to say, but because I'm not quite sure where to start.

I guess I'll say, if you were hoping this was an update post, I hate to disappoint.

This is an I-refuse-to-do-an-update-post update post. That is to say, there's plenty of stuff to update on. I've got two full requests on my steampunk, the Genesis finals have been announced, Harlequin has the full of my inspy, I'm in several contests, and I'm querying agents for the first time. But that's not why I'm writing this post.

I'm writing this post so that the Silent Word Blog can go back up into the rotation on my Blogger dashboard. So I'm going to essentially skip everything that has happened between July 24th and September 23rd. Instead, I'm going to just pick up here. And the next time I blog on here, I'll have something interesting to say. It will not be an update post. It will probably be some annoying opinion post or some kind of research post that I felt compelled to do. But I will not update. I promise.

Or, if I do, it might be a Day Zero list update. We'll see.

Anyway, good to see you back, Silent Word. Perhaps we'll see each other again very soon. Much love.