Lobster, copy edits, and reviews.
Once again I’m writing this at the swimming pool. At any one time, there’s usually a Beal wishing a sibling hadn’t been born. But give them the opportunity to get…
Tag: family
There is probably no civilised way to run my business in the summer holidays.
I should stop doing mind maps and setting up kanban boards, and embrace the hubbub. This week’s takeaways: avoid complex geometry in our cover designs – stick to trees; remember…
Shotgun and parenting
Our eldest went to look round Southampton University this week. He was quite impressed. But then I pointed out, that if he went there, we could pop in on our…
Shtisel and losing touch with reality.
It seems I need other adults around to behave like a grown-up myself. My husband had COVID for the first week of the Easter holidays and was holed up in…
5 good things
Son probably doesn’t have a brain tumour, although he’s being sent for an MRI scan to check. (The doctor was most concerned when I said he’s been a lot nicer…
Half-term: to yell or not to yell, that is the problem.
It’s been half term this week. I only have my second-born’s word for it that he’s been revising for his mock exams. On Tuesday, I found him head under the…
Stretching the perimeter of my comfort zone.
If I had my way I would stay in my comfort zone and never make a mistake. But two things have recently pushed me to do things I wouldn’t choose…
Life-novel balance and other fictional concepts.
I have never managed the work-life balance thing. Complicated Christmas holidays, a deadline for one of our authors, the need to catch up with my own work after that, and…
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