I sent off a recorded five minute reading for a digital conference in the UK, specifically Scotland called Cymera: https://www.cymerafestival.co.uk/2021-digital-events With luck, I will be part of their next Open Mic event. Watch Facebook for updates when that goes live--I think it will be sometime in early June.
I'll also be in attendance at this year's low-key WisCON event: https://wiscon.net/2021/05/08/announcing-visioning-wiscon/ and SFWA's Nebula Conference: https://nebulas.sfwa.org/nebula-conference/ These are happening the same weekend, but the bonus of the Zoom era is that I can literally attend both of them at the same time.
The anthology I talked about last month that will contain my short story "Sincerely Yours" is now available for pre-order on Amazon (and a few other places,) even though it is not coming out until February of 2023. https://www.amazon.com/Reinvented-Heart-Jane-Yolen-ebook/dp/B092JNGX85/
Otherwise, I am continuing to work on what I've been calling my lesbian space opera novella, as well as finally getting a start on Alex Connor #3, which also still needs a name. The lesbian space opera will be published by Kalikoi Books (https://www.kalikoi.com/) and the third Alex Connor book will go to Wizard's Tower Press (https://wizardstowerpress.com/). I'm hoping to have the space opera done before August, and the Alex book is due at the end of this year.
It's been slow-going, however. I'm really hopeful that when my family goes on vacation in the middle of June for two weeks to the Minnesota Boundary Waters Area, where there is NO INTERNET to distract me, I will actually be able to put in some solid work on both projects.
