Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Short stuff!

Welcome, I’m Mary Louisa Locke, the author of the USA Today best-selling Victorian San Francisco Mystery series and the Caelestis Science Fiction series. In this daily newsletter, I reflect on my life as an indie author trying to age gracefully. Occasionally, I will also publish some of my shorter fiction in this newsletter to read for free.

Daily Diary, Day 1777:

Edgar and friends: I must say watching Edgar devour whatever was in the cocoon throughout the day yesterday was fascinating. By the end of the day, he’d finished and what was left of the cocoon dropped to the floor, and this morning he is looking a good deal larger than he did before! At least I can stop worrying about him starving. Junior is still hanging in there, but no sign of Miss Teeny.

Yesterday was productive, in that I got in my two walks, finished all the major cleaning for the week, wrote and published my daily post, journaled, got all caught up with my substack newsletters, and got about 300 words written. My afternoon phone call was cancelled, which is why I was able to get caught up on reading.

Today, I should be able to achieve about the same schedule, with maybe some more words written since there is a two hour zoom co-writing section scheduled right after lunch that I plan on attending. For once, no phone calls scheduled!

We are tending to alternate watching movies with tv show watching, so night before last we watched Inside Llewyn Davis (early sixties folk singer, seen as fictional representation of Bob Dylan.) While last night we watched Elementary and The Closer. Our short, sit coms, to watch during dinner and right before bed were Becker (a Ted Danson sit-com we have watched before and quite enjoy) and Catastrophes, (a British sit-com we watched one season of and for some reason stopped, so we are giving it another try. At least last night elicited several laughs out-loud moments for both of us—which is the goal.)

I really do love these orangey-yellowish-pink roses, so here are a few in slightly different shades.

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