Newsy News
A review of some recent ups and downs at our house:
Pro: A South Korean publisher wants Solomon Latte. I've had stuff translated into Spanish and Portuguese and German, but not Korean. (It always makes me nervous to see my own stuff in another language. I could be staring at twelve typos on page one and never know it!)
Con: My husband, daughter, mom-in-law and I are each getting $50 travel vouchers from American Airlines. A con, you ask? Why no pro? Read on...
Con: We bought AA tickets to Washington, D.C., for Christmas, and today I found that the fares had dropped $150 each for the same flight/time/day. Do the math: That is a $600 decrease! So I called American and asked if we could get some sort of refund or cancel and start over. That's when I learned we had to pay $100 each to "change" (even though we keep the exact same seats), and that leaves a difference of $50 each, so we get vouchers to use toward future travel. It is such a rip off that, for the first time ever, a customer service person actually empathized with me. (You know it's bad when...)
Pro: AMG notified me that we're going back to press with Mocha on the Mount and Espresso with Esther. If you have copies and found typos, let your inner critic speak (via private email, please). I found some (drove me nuts) on the first run, but at least we get to rectify things now.
Pro: My cough vanished. Today marks the one-week point for being pain-killer-free. Compared with last time, I feel great.
Con: You should see my "in" box. Have you noticed how often I've updated my blog? Does the word "avoidance" come to mind?