{"id":4588,"date":"2017-02-03T11:23:56","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T16:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/?p=4588"},"modified":"2017-02-03T11:24:49","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T16:24:49","slug":"the-best-kind-of-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/the-best-kind-of-busy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Kind of Busy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/r-avatar-e1443983880436.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" \/>The Writing Cave has been a buzzing hive of activity lately, and it keeps getting busier. So busy, in fact, that some of our operations spilled over into the Auxiliary Writing Cave.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re in the midst of writing Son of Science Novel while actively editing Tenpenny Zen\u00a0(sequel to <a href=\"http:\/\/runeskelley.com\/sample-chapters-of-miss-brandymoons-device\/\">Miss Brandymoon&#8217;s Device<\/a>), and planning the edits for the third book in that series. When we&#8217;re not doing any of that, we&#8217;re in early discussions for the third Music Novel and the big scary question of Whatever Comes Next And Probably Will Be Kind Of Supernatural. (Wow! We&#8217;re going to have to come up with a more concise name for that!)<\/p>\n<p>As if all of that wasn&#8217;t enough, there&#8217;s a new demand on our time, and it&#8217;s one we weren&#8217;t entirely prepared for. Fan mail.<\/p>\n<p>Woe is us, right?<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago we went to see David Sedaris, and we were very impressed with how available he makes himself to his fans. He&#8217;s there before the show signing books, and he stays after until everyone in line has had their turn. He talks to everyone and\u00a0it&#8217;s a very friendly interaction.<\/p>\n<p>We decided that that&#8217;s how we want to engage with fans of our writing. Right now the flow of emails is just a trickle, but we have little doubt it will eventually\u00a0become a tsunami. It&#8217;s important that we work it into our schedule now so that it becomes a habit.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to fawn all over us, or berate us, or just say Hi, email us at <a title=\"Copy and Paste the email address to your email editor to send me mail.\">HeyRune<code>@<\/code>runeskelley.com<\/a> or just hit up the comments. We&#8217;d love to engage with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Writing Cave has been a buzzing hive of activity lately, and it keeps getting busier. So busy, in fact, that some of our operations spilled over into the Auxiliary Writing Cave. We&#8217;re in the midst of writing Son of Science Novel while actively editing Tenpenny Zen\u00a0(sequel to Miss Brandymoon&#8217;s Device), and planning the edits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326],"tags":[446,447],"class_list":["post-4588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-as-a-team","tag-miss-brandymoons-device","tag-tenpenny-zen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4591,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4588\/revisions\/4591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runeskelley.com\/skelleyverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}