The Boss of You

We’re back! Back from a month-long blog­ging hia­tus (more on that later), back from a short trip to Seat­tle (to see Feli­cia’s book read­ing, hooray!), and back to focus­ing on this book we’ve got com­ing out in a few short months.

We’ve spent the last cou­ple of weeks try­ing to get this site moved from a very old ver­sion of Mov­able Type into a brand-spankin’-new Word­press site. We had to do pitched bat­tle to export our archived blog posts, thanks to moun­tains of com­ment spam that were clut­ter­ing up the joint. But thanks to a friend of a friend — thanks, Steve! — we got every­thing ported over. We’re hop­ing to find the time to make things look a lit­tle swishier around here, soon, but for now we are breath­ing a sigh of relief that we didn’t have to copy & paste every sin­gle archived entry by hand.

Another change com­ing down the pipe is that we are going to be drop­ping the “Boss Lady” moniker. We love it, and we know many of you do, too, but we chose it because we hoped that was gonna be our book title — and it isn’t, so it’s time to move on to some­thing less con­fus­ing. We’ll be unveil­ing the new site as soon as I can scrounge some time to make it look pretty, and sort out this export/import issue.

So: Why have we been so quiet of late? Well, our excuses are legion. For one, though it’s an admit­tedly tired old tune, things over at Raised Eye­brow have been très hec­tic. His­tor­i­cally, Jan­u­ary has been a slow month for us, but this year has been dif­fer­ent; we came back from hol­i­days and were greeted with a shock­ing, though cer­tainly wel­come, amount of new work.

Jan­u­ary also saw the arrival of the final edit of our book man­u­script. We wrapped up the last round of proof­read­ing a cou­ple of weeks ago — and let me tell you, all the sto­ries we heard from our writer friends were true. We were so tired of read­ing our own words by the time the final edit arrived that it was near-impossible to focus closely enough to notice punc­tu­a­tion prob­lems. For­tu­nately, I’m pretty cer­tain that my life­long obses­sion with spelling and gram­mar car­ried me through.

There’s so much to do, and not nearly enough hours in the day to do it all, but I’m deter­mined to get back in the habit of post­ing here reg­u­larly, so watch this space. And if you have requests for top­ics you’d like to see us cover here, please drop us a line in the comments!