The holidays have been very good to me. Moving was successful, family time was wonderful, relaxation was had, and I even got a few nice presents (more on that in a later post -- some should be of interest to my dear readers!). Professionally, I made a conscious choice not to accept any jobs between Christmas and New Year's. Instead, I used the time to very leisurely work my way through a novel sample whose deadline is now approaching fast, retool my (and my family's) finances, and get my work life in order for the new year. It was a nice week of spending time with the people I love, with a couple calm hours of work inserted whenever I felt like working.
This was a good choice. I feel so much better about diving back in to a normal schedule starting tomorrow.
At any rate, exciting things are happening, and I've got some good posts simmering in the back of my head to write over the next few days and weeks. Here's what you can look forward to reading about soon:
- a wonderful review of a recent choir concert that made use of supertitles translated by yours truly
- previews of The Last Love of George Sand, the biography of the famous French writer that I translated from Evelyne Bloch-Dano's original book, slated for publication by Skyhorse on February 6
- possibly a book giveaway for said biography, because I think it's a fantastic story
- and the aforementioned Christmas haul, of course
Sound good? Awesome. 2013 is going to be a marvelous year.