Lexical Gap No. 13: Drachenfutter

It's here it's here oh god it's here

How did it become February already???? At the same time, how did January last for a million years???? In addition to gearing up for Wintersong's launch, my day job's responsibilities and workload have increased tenfold, not to mention I've made a conscious effort to become more politically engaged. The result was a January that seemed to drag on forever, yet there didn't seem to be enough time to get everything I needed to get done before February.

And now Wintersong's pub month is upon us. I'm not gonna lie; I wish I had something eloquent or beautiful to say about holding my book—an actual book!—in my hand for the first time, but I don't. Part of it is exhaustion (pre-release week is no joke), and part of it is because it's simply a natural culmination of years of hard work. The real work was done long before my words were printed on paper; a physical book is simply an extension of something that's been in my head for a while.

Yet I can't deny that there is power seeing the result o…