What's Katie up to today, you ask?

Oh, come on, someone ask it. Thank you. Well, I'll tell you...no, wait, I'll show you:

That, dear hearts, is a butt-ton of paperwork that I spent the morning filing into the appropriate folders, everything from royalty statements to contracts, bestseller lists, and subsidiary rights info. This was mid-way through the process, when my entire computer desk was covered with stacks of papers waiting to be tucked away.

My editor Laura e-mailed me to ask when I could deliver a short steampunk novella, to accompany Steamed, which meant I had to load up the Spreadsheet o' Hell, AKA my deadline calendar. I took one look at it, ran screaming from the room, wandered around the house for a bit, started to tidy up the kitchen (but quickly became bored because it was housework, and thus made of pure evil), ate some leftover pizza (giving most of it to the dogs because pizza is not really meant for a diet), drank a caffeine free Diet Coke (out of Fresca! Oh noes!), and eventually toddled back into the computer room to consult again the Spreadsheet o' Hell.

After agreeing to the date Editor Laura suggested, reading e-mail from my charming, but very pregnant, darling agent Michelle, talking Sims with my buddy Manny, viewing a really appalling sort of lip gloss, and uploading pictures of the new book plates I had made (see below), the actual dates on the Spreadsheet o' Hell sank into what passes for my brain these days, and I realized that dammit, I don't get to take the whole month off as I thought. I have to Do Things. I am considering pouting over this, but until I decide whether or not I wish to go there, I will get cracking on the stuff I should be doing rather than writing up lengthy blog posts that really say nothing.

Pictures? Yes, here they are. I don't have them added into the Freebies Order Form yet, but if you really want one before I get around to that, you can always send in the Order Form with a note that you want one of the bookplates pictured below.