Pursuing Weird, Playful Work

Random musings.

Me, attempting to be weird and playful

I have no interview to share with you today. I thought I had something to share, but then learned that the interview subject has an exclusive interview with another (probably mainstream, traditional, much more powerful than Substack) media outlet, so I can’t run that interview until next week.

Hmph.

In general, work has been quite slow lately, which is partially my fault. I decided to take a break from doing author interviews for a while. I adore doing them, but for the past 4 years I’ve done so many that I’ve had a seemingly never-ending pile of books to read for my job. And although they’ve all been great, for every novel or memoir I’m assigned to read, there are three more books piled up in my office, vying for my attention. I’ve felt bad, seeing them there, all unread and accumulating dust. They looked lonely and sad. So I decided about a month ago to focus on reading for pleasure rather than reading for work, which has brought on somewhat of an…