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• Yard adventure season

  Did I just spend an hour wandering around a yard that can be circumnavigated in under 3 minutes? Maybe. It is a small yard. Okay, yes. Yes, I spent an hour meandering about, discovering & admiring sprouts, talking to bees, & plotting out my next round of planting & transplanting. Good times. No regrets. A…

  K. M. Herkes

  May 21, 2023

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• The unexpected

  Yesterday was a day of dealing w/ unexpected disruptions. In related news, looks like I don’t get to go on vacation to the Grand Canyon in June. Fun fact 1: the North Rim of the Grand Canyon will apparently have no water until (at least) the end of July. 300 feet of water main got…

  K. M. Herkes

  May 19, 2023

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• Chasing a trophy & other things

  

  I gave myself a new achievement trophy to chase today:“one of my titles gets onto a recommended reading list posted by someone with a subscriber following > 1000.” Anyone with a big audience finding & liking my books is a long shot. Like, moonshot level unlikely. But hey. We got to the moon, didn’t we?…

  K. M. Herkes

  May 19, 2023

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• It’s a numbers game, right?

  I know writers are expected to hate bad reviews, but all this 2-star rating I just got for Sharp Edge of Yesterday really tells me is that the book has reached a large enough audience to produce a full distribution of data points. And that makes me happy. Hm. On a related note, I need…

  K. M. Herkes

  May 18, 2023

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