Environment as a Character in Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation + National Indie Excellence Award 2015!

Well, the three deals I was working on at work finally closed this week, and my second module of my MFA wrapped up on Sunday, so I finally feel like I can breathe again. I actually had a migraine today. It happens sometimes when I've been under massive stress and it suddenly dissipates. My mom explained the chemistry of that to me once, but I don't remember the specifics. Something about the adrenaline departing after the stress events and the remaining chemicals causing the migraine until they equalize again. Either way, the migraine was miserable, but I'm still glad that things have calmed down.

In much better and more exciting news, Compendium, my first novel that released May 5, won the 2015 National Indie Excellence Award in the fantasy category. I was completely shocked to get the e-mail Sunday night telling me I won. I'm still on cloud nine about it. My blog tour wrapped up Friday, and I think that went quite well as well. I got lots of lovely reviews, did some guest posts and h…