Wow, I’ve neglected this newsletter a little. Let’s start with the traditional housekeeping. Library Journal gave The Salt Grows Heavy a starred review, which is always such a goddamned honor. I was a journalist for long enough to know how difficult it is to impress an industry professional. You spend all day inundated by the best of your field. It means something to stand out and I’m glad that my weird little folk tale did.
Pre-orders may not give an immediate "dopamine jolt", but personally I find great joy when pre-orders do eventually come through the letter box because so many months have passed that I've actually forgotten I ordered it. It's like receiving a surprise present from my past self!
So wonderful to read (and see) that you and your ridiculous floof are doing well. (This comment briefly delayed whilst one of my own ridiculous floofs *demanded* tummy-skritches by floomphing herself between the keyboard and myself, purring away.)
Your descriptions of everything coming alive and bringing joy with it after months of brutal conditions resonates so deeply with my own experiences and feelings here on the opposite side of the world. We have been blessed this year with an early and so far quite wet Autumn/Djeran (see link below), (ridicfloof interrupted again at this point) and it's all so uplifting and life-affirming. The fact that my Summer SAD has finally lifted just *might* have something to do with that as well. Perhaps. ;)
Much love to you and the floof both, from Way Down Here. <3
Pre-orders may not give an immediate "dopamine jolt", but personally I find great joy when pre-orders do eventually come through the letter box because so many months have passed that I've actually forgotten I ordered it. It's like receiving a surprise present from my past self!
So wonderful to read (and see) that you and your ridiculous floof are doing well. (This comment briefly delayed whilst one of my own ridiculous floofs *demanded* tummy-skritches by floomphing herself between the keyboard and myself, purring away.)
Your descriptions of everything coming alive and bringing joy with it after months of brutal conditions resonates so deeply with my own experiences and feelings here on the opposite side of the world. We have been blessed this year with an early and so far quite wet Autumn/Djeran (see link below), (ridicfloof interrupted again at this point) and it's all so uplifting and life-affirming. The fact that my Summer SAD has finally lifted just *might* have something to do with that as well. Perhaps. ;)
Much love to you and the floof both, from Way Down Here. <3
http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/calendars/nyoongar.shtml
You're awesome, Cassandra, whether babbling or not!