It was a long, dry summer, filled with exhaustion and writing inertia of sorts. For someone who needs connection with the world to stimulate the imagination, sheltering from any possible exposure to COVID19 did not help. But as of this last week, I’ve had some movement. I’ve had two opinion articles published in The Insider within two weeks: Can There Be Truth without Ruth? and Bob Woodward: A Day Late, But Not a Dollar Short. This is a new kind of venue for me, adding journalistic writing to my fiction work. It’s also a chance–especially in these isolating COVID19 days we are living through–to express my views to more than the walls of my apartment. (With the amount of yelling I’ve been doing at those walls, I’m surprised that, like Jericho’s, they have not come tumbling down.)

In addition, yesterday, I received the lovely news that an excerpt of one of my novels is a finalist for a contest conducted by Novel Slices. If the excerpt should win, it would be one of five that will appear in that publication. (I am torn between wanting to celebrate that news and not wanting to jinx myself. ) Here’s hoping!