I should be excited for a lull, but it always comes with a hint of anxiety.  I had several months of busy-ness, but now there's a lull, which is coinciding with the spring rain EVERY DAY here in Chicago.  

A callback for a commercial, an audition for a play, a few responses from audiobook producers (--a win(!), as they are often swamped with emails), have given me hope that something will be on the horizon if I just keep putting myself out there.  It's the waiting that sucks.  And my pocket book, but that's what savings is for, right???

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On a positive note, I'm very excited (and nervous) about the new release on 4/21 of a public domain book produced with Spoken Realms.  It's been so easy to produce with them that I've had a hard time going elsewhere when I find a new PD book.  

This one was a doozy (592 pages), but I LOVED recording it.  We (the author and I) share a love of Chicago, which features prominently in the book, and given that I am her age at the end, I felt a connection to the heroine's constant reflection of her life choices and reasoning.  There were also major frustrations with her ideas.  But isn't that what a good book gives you?  Introspection and frustration with the flawed heroes?  I was genuinely surpised at how well the book held my attention, given the year it was written and the fact that I hadn't heard of the book prior to discovering it while researching Early Autumn a few years ago. Something about it was like comfort food; an easy escape into life before social media & internet distractions.​​​​​​​​