More ill-gotten gains

[purplecat]

I have, once again, persuaded Philip Purser-Hallard to pay me cold hard cash to write a story. It's another City of the Saved short story (i.e., another spin off of a spin off of a spin off of Doctor Who) in an anthology entitled Tales of the Civil War which details events after death returns to the denizens of the City of the Saved (where all humans have ended up after their deaths and where, up until this point, they appeared to be immune to physical harm).

This time, it has to be said, the book I purchased for research (a biography of Anne Boleyn) cost more than I was paid. I think I'm currently running about evens on this "professional author" lark.

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[daniel-saunders.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's still less than two months since I moved out, so hopefully things will get easier. I think it was a bit over-optimistic of me to assume that things would suddenly improve with moving out, but I definitely feel the benefits of independence some of the time.

I'm also still trying to find my 'level' in the much wider, more complex and more vibrant Jewish community where I now live, but that's been going on for a year, since my parents and I moved to the area when I was still living with them (we moved as a family last August and then I moved out to a nearby studio flat in June this year). Again, I think that's going to take time, and will partly depend on my mental health and self-confidence.