Yesterday...

[rolanni]

...fairly fraught. No. Unfairly fraught. The May bills were paid, and all that pesky money no longer obscures the pristine purity of the house checkbook. That's balance, I guess.

Spent some therapy time with the roses, cutting out dead stuff, raking, speaking Growing Words to the Lost Rose, which is trying one!more!time! to come in, brave heart.

Managed a page on The Nameless Story. Things are getting Deeply Weird. Do I want to know what space this story is coming from? Maybe not.

In the your-backbrain-is-your-friend department: Steve and I shared a late dinner and a glass of wine, and in the middle of talking about quite mundane things, I said, "Oh. Damn. That room has to be tile, not rock." And without missing a beat, Steve said, "Right. Then, it won't be able to use the irregularities in the rock."

I love living with another writer.

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Sometimes gallow's humor is the only kind available.

What is it that none of the publishers are paying? We've seen late, you've seen late, we've all seen late. This is waaaaay beyond "late".

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

My guess would be cash-flow problems.

Have been through this before--remember when it took six months to get a delivery payment, and contracts could languish for even longer than that? The past couple of years have been a mirage. Payment inside of three months. Astonishing. Now we're back to normal.

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

remember when it took six months to get a delivery payment, and contracts could languish for even longer than that?

Actually, I don't. We were a flash-in-the-pan in 1988 and '89, and excepting the on-delivery for the third book, got paid with blinding speed. Then we had 10 years of No Sales and just rejoined the party in '99. So there's a big hole in my personal experience of the biz.

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

In the mid to late 90s, payments were unbelievably delayed. Six months to get a delivery payment, contracts took absolutely forever, you just naturally expected that publisher money would not come. Then when it did, you threw a party.

Lately it's been coming unnaturally fast if you lived through those times. I've been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Apparently it has.