Library Visit

Time to click some links and get yourselves over to Worlds Of Tim for more exciting and educational Tim news! I paid a visit to the North York branch of the Toronto Public Library and did a reading/author appearance for a group of 60 kids! To find out all about it, click right here!

Reviews!

Those of you who have asked, nay, demanded that I post links to those reviews I mentioned will now be very happy. I have posted all those review links, but you're gonna haveta go to Worlds Of Tim to find them.

I could post them here, but I really want to give Worlds of Tim more love. Please go check it out, and help make Worlds of Tim feel special!

Time For Writing?

I've just finished writing my answers to 17 interview questions. This morning, I emailed a humourous article featuring an interview with four of my characters to a blog site. It took me a week to write them both.

Before that, I answered another bunch of interview questions and did a guest post for another book reviewing blog site. And, up until last Friday, I had work.

So when am I supposed to get my novel writing done?

Honestly, it's been over a week since I touched my current novel project. My time has been taken up with smaller projects, all designed to help market and promote my published work. That stuff is great, and I'm very grateful for the chances to push my novels on those blogs. However, I need to plan my time better or I'll never get any more books written!

An upside to this situation is that it is a symptom of my success. If I wasn't being successful, nobody would want to interview me or ask me to do stuff for their blogs.

I shouldn't complain. I'm doing well. I just gotta kick my own butt a bit harder.

So Now It Is August

I have not been in the mood much for blogging lately. I've had a lot going on, and just didn't feel like putting in the time. It seems my posts here will be monthly for the foreseeable future.

I'm working again! At long last I have another temp assignment, and with a little luck it will stretch beyond two weeks. After so long of a dry spell it is great to have money coming in again.

I may have two jobs, actually (well, three, since I count my writing). A market research company (read: telephone surveys) has hired me, and I may start as early as this week. I can do the temp job during the day and the phone job in the evenings. It'll tire me out, but it'll make up for the last few months of nothing.

Violet will also be working, and also doing phone surveys. Not with me this time, though. She's going back to the company that hired us back in April.

Writing-wise (and writing business-wise), I've been doing really well. I've written nine chapters of my new novel, A Walk-In To Remember, and promotion for EVIL? is going along great. I was at Polaris 23 recently marketing my stuff, and I have two big events lined up for this month. Plus, reviews are starting to come in, and so far they are extremely positive. I am so very excited!

15 Things I Am Grateful For

1. I'm still alive.

2. I'm in reasonably good health.

3. I'm not currently in a soul-sucking corporate job doing the work of three people.

4. I haven't been probed by aliens (as far as I know).

5. If aliens have probed me, I'm unaware of it.

6. I am a published author.

7. I have a gift for writing.

8. I have a new novel coming out.

9. I am not currently burning in Hell.

10. The End of the World (Dec. 21, 2012) is still 3.5 years away.

11. My birthday is on Dec. 13, so when the end of the world does come, I'll still get birthday presents (but no Christmas presents. Shame).

12. I have not been Saved, Converted or Raptured.

13. My cat, Karma, is pretty awesome.

14. I have a lovely wife, who gets me.

15. I am no longer attending high school.