A cozy stay at home Sunday with the Mister and Vickie Lester…

I did not make breakfast, but lounged about as magic occurred in the kitchen, of course I had to endure some alt. rock and garage band anthems, but it seemed a small price to pay for delicious coffee, chopped grapefruit, scrambled eggs and onions, toast and marmalade.

The apple of my eye is about to go full tilt into film production, which means a stretch of months during which I will finish my second novel, have the upstairs of my house painted, and install a shady drought resistant garden in the back yard. The last time he was involved in a project of this nature I ripped the kitchen down to the studs and recreated a room I feel comfortable spending a lot of time in. You’ve seen it before, but here’s a reminder of what it looked like once…

and what it looks like now…

We’re just past February, a year from the date when I found out my publishing deal had flown apart, and I freaked, left my agents, and decided to self-publish my novel. Looking back, this was probably more of a visceral reaction than a sensible one. The novel did pretty well at first (I actually published it by accident a month before I meant to, in May), and then the limitations of my platform, and my hesitancy to constantly babble on about it have brought sales to a veritable standstill.

I think when I finish the next book I will explore the more traditional paths of publication, but this time with a back catalog, a fondness for some very fine editors, and a precise knowledge of what kerning is:

In typography, kerning (less commonly mortising) is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result. Kerning adjusts the space between individual letter forms, while tracking (letter-spacing) adjusts spacing uniformly over a range of characters. In a well-kerned font, the two-dimensional blank spaces between each pair of characters all have a visually similar area.

via Kerning – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.