Sydney Strand

Right now, I'm enjoying an aimlessness, a short phase of "What? I have time to do something tonight? I have no idea what that would be!" After a year of GO GO GO--releasing four ebooks, two print books, and one book-in-progress that only La Petite Adult has read--I'm letting myself have a minute to breathe. Well, my version of breathing. But first, my week in review as a Mom Writer with a Deadline: 1. We made it into Portsmouth, fifteen minutes away, to get haircuts for the boys and a dinner for all of us. La Petite had a bear project at school, and as part of the project, she had to take Penny the Bear out and about to give her an experience. Penny enjoying the board game store Walking the streets of Portsmouth, NH 2. We went to church, where La Petite was Mary in the Christmas Pageant. She was superb, and Le Boy Bebe was superb in his supporting role as Clapper. A mural of our church from the 1800s at the local post office. 3. I even for...

*See? I'm letting go.    This week I hit a milestone: I just published my FIFTH BOOK in ONE YEAR: His Favorite Distraction. I published my first book, His Favorite Inconvenience , December 15, 2013. It was supposed to happen on the 13th, but formatting issues + newbie formatter = not gonna happen. Fast-forward a year. I put His Favorite Distraction up for preorder, and it will be going live December 12, 2014:   Before I go into what I'm going to go into, here's a quick look at my week: I traveled to Boston with La Petite Adult to celebrate Santa Lucia and FINALLY found a Lucia set to replace my broken one! You can't go to a Swedish event and NOT try on a Viking helmet! We came back to NH and I was part of an author panel at Portsmouth Public Library (that's me in the middle!). La Petite read two books and then was bored for the next hour. (Boredom makes a kid stronger, I told her.) After all the fun, I went back t...