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Apr 8 2013

Sticky: Availability and April updates

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It’s rainy and gray here, the first of several rainy days forecast, and I’m doing some catching up. Enjoy some updates.

First, we have still not moved house. The delays are really wearing on my optimism, but at least things are getting done. We’re looking at another tentative moving date of “next weekend, probably, or maybe the week after.” So I won’t be scheduling many projects in April, but I am expecting to crank things up in May. Contact e-mail for project scheduling is, as always, editing@lastsyllable.net.

ETA: Yes, we are moving at long last! I’ll be mostly offline from Friday 4/19 through Sunday 4/21 for the move. I’m trying to create a schedule with minimal downtime (since putting projects on hold didn’t work out for me) and expect to be back in action on Monday, April 22.

And now the news:

A novel I edited has just been published! Check out Happy(ish) by Cara Trautman, available on Kindle. It’s a fun read, if I do say so myself, and I enjoyed working on it.

As a follow-up to my last post: I opted to start the trial period of Office 365 Small Business Premium and it might be okay. It’s prompting me to use an on.microsoft.com e-mail address until I go through a complicated process to verify that I own my domain, but I don’t use Outlook and am not sure what else they’d need that information for (I won’t be managing my site through Office). So that’s tabled until I have the spare brain cycles to figure it out. And I haven’t signed up for those classes yet; the accounting class may not end up being as useful as I thought, since what I need is tax advice for freelance editorial professionals (instead of general accounting), and I missed the EFA’s webinar on exactly that subject.

Since the announced demise of Google Reader, I’ve been able to move my feeds to The Old Reader (I’ve also seen recommendations for Feedly and Newsblur, though I haven’t tried to use those services). My initial grump about The Old Reader is that I haven’t found a way to automatically alphabetize feeds. However, when I clicked on something and then clicked the Back button, The Old Reader didn’t lose my place in the feed I was reading, for which I cheer enthusiastically. If I did that in Google Reader, it would take me back to the feed and disappear the post I was in the middle of, making no distinction between “marked as read” and “I’m finished with this, it can go away now.” So if that’s my trade-off, I’ll manually alphabetize my feeds.

And that’s the news of the moment. More as it develops.

Mar 15 2013

Sticky: Moving! Probably!

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Well, it was a good thing I hadn’t booked much in early March, because I had one project extend a little longer than anticipated. We hauled a few loads of things to the new house, but there’s a lot at the old house that still needs to be packed. Over the past couple weeks, we’ve had a lot of interest in the old house and six or seven showings (including a second showing to one buyer), but it still hasn’t resulted in an offer. It has, however, resulted in much grumbling chez nous.

I had planned for us to move on Monday, but delays at the new house — this time, water damage in the kitchen, meaning the countertops had to be replaced — have meant that plumbing is still not working. The new countertop and sink might be installed by now, but I don’t think the main floor bathroom is at all usable yet. (The basement bathroom was gutted and will be finished after we move in.) TV and internet service have not yet been connected.

So Monday isn’t looking good for a moving day, but hopefully we can get in sometime next week. I don’t want to commit to additional projects in March and even early April, just because nothing is nailed down (heh) and I’ve had to write enough apologetic emails about deadlines as I’ve attempted to manage working from a house that’s actively for sale.

It would, however, be a good time to schedule projects that will begin in April and May. Contact me at editing@lastsyllable.net.

Feb 23 2013

Sticky: Finally moving in March!

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The rest of my February is booked solid, but I’ll be taking time off and minimizing my workload in the first couple weeks of March. Enough of the renovations will be finished by March 17 that we’ll finally be able to move in!

So I’ll be spending the first part of March packing the rest of our things at the old house. (We’ve moved an awful lot of times in the past 10-12 years and it’s a huge pain to work full-time, come home, and then spend all your free time packing. I have the luxury of not doing that this time, so I’m not going to.) Internet should be installed before moving day, so I should be able to get up and running right away (knock on wood!). I won’t be accepting work with tight turnarounds in mid-March, though, just in case.

As always, I’ll update here with the latest, and my contact email is editing@lastsyllable.net.

Feb 5 2013

Sticky: February availability

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My daughter’s second birthday was yesterday, Valentine’s Day is coming up, and there’s now enough chocolate and sweets in my house to keep me working through even the grumpiest days of February. We’ve been snowed in lately and I’ve been baking bread, making chili and soup, and cooking all kinds of lovely cold-weather food. The kitchen at the new house looks fabulous with new slate floors. I am, however, doing all this cooking at the old house and it is less fabulous.

With all this snow and a stocked kitchen, I’m filling in my schedule for February and into March. I’m especially looking for writing, copy editing, and proofreading projects.

Contact me at editing@lastsyllable.net to talk about your projects’s needs.

Jan 2 2013

Sticky: January and February 2013

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Happy New Year! I hope you’re all recovered from the revelry and merriment of the holiday. (It was pretty boring chez nous, honestly.  I was too busy working yesterday to make mimosas and a big breakfast like I’ve done in years past.)

As I said in my last post, I’m now a full-time freelancer and available for all projects: writing, copy editing, proofreading, closed captioning, audio proofing, and research and fact-checking. I’m booked through mid-January and scheduling projects for late January and February.

Contact me at editing@lastsyllable.net to book me for your project.

Dec 17 2012

Sticky: Availability into 2013

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As of today, I’ve transitioned to full-time freelance, which opens up my availability quite a bit!

December does tend to be busy because of the holidays, and I’ll be moving house in January (move date TBD, once plumbing problems at the new house are resolved). However, I’m confident that those things won’t eat into my overall schedule too much.

I’m also opening up to all projects now: writing, copy editing, proofreading, closed captioning, and audio proofing.

Contact me at editing@lastsyllable.net if you’re interested in having me work on your project.

Dec 1 2012

Sticky: December availability

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Plumbing problems at the new house are postponing my move date, though I’ll still be transitioning to full-time freelance on the 17th.

December is looking pretty busy between existing projects and the holidays, but I’m also scheduling projects now for January 2013. Contact me at editing@lastsyllable.net to book some time for your project.

[updated 12/7]