2 year anniversary of my current job

8 Comments

Today is my two year anniversary of being at my current job as the Finance Manager at Woodbury Technologies.  If you’re a military contract officer, and you need an 8A that rocks in IT, Engineering, Training, or Medical, I know somebody… I’m just saying.

I don’t talk too much about my regular day job on my blog for a couple of reasons. First, you guys usually tune in because of my fiction related stuff, political rants, or gun stuff. (speaking of which, I’m overdue to post a report on the 10mm Pocket Rifle, a post about union school teachers, and a Tom Stranger related episode called Mustache & the Fat Man, darn deadlines… TGC:2 has to be done by April)  However, I’ve still got a normal job. I do most of my writing on nights and especially weekends.  

I really do like my job. Honestly, I’ve got about the best accounting job an accountant could ever hope for. My company is awesome. The crew that I’ve got here is all a bunch of professionals. My boss is great, and not exaggerating (and she doesn’t read my blog either, so I’m not sucking up) she is the best boss I’ve ever had.

Basically, my job goes something like this. Here is the work. Make it good. Period. Unlike my prior decade trapped in the corporate world, where you’re constantly micro-managed, here nobody tells me what to do. Nobody babysits me.  I’m a professional. I either know how to do it, or I learn how to do it.  I set my own schedule. I work from home when I need to. And I get paid well because I’m very good at what I do.

The company is honest, staffed with professionals, works hard, and we get to serve the war fighter. So in some small way I can say that I help keep F-16s in the air, and that is pretty darn sweet.

So, people ask me all the time, since my writing career has taken off, why do I still have a day job? Well, it is because I’ve blundered into an accountant’s dream job. Now if I were still a tiny cog in a gigantic corporate machine, I would’ve bailed the second I got my first royalty check. Now, I don’t mind having two jobs.

Eventually I’ll just be a full time writer, but I’m going to pay the house off first. My boss knows this, and I keep her updated about every book deal so she’ll know when we have to start training my replacement, whoever that lucky accountant may be. 🙂

Autographed Hard Magic preorder, mega tour, ARCs & more

25 Comments

Okay, first off this has fallen off the first page of the blog, so it is time to bring it back. If you want an autographed copy of The Grimnoir Chronicles: Hard Magic you can order them now from Uncle Hugo’s here. http://www.unclehugo.com/prod/ah-correia-larry.php  I’ll do personalizations too. Uncle Hugo ships to APOs and out of the country.

Next up, I’m going to StellarCon next week as the special guest, so if you are in NC, come by and say hi.

The eARC for Hard Magic is available from Baen, and take a look at these reviews. Not too shabby. 🙂 http://www.webscription.net/p-1363-hard-magic-book-i-of-the-grimnoir-chronicles-arc.aspx Plus you can read all the sample chapters at the link.

In May I’m going on a mega tour. I’ll be starting in Minnesota, then kicking off 2 weeks across the whole western half of the US.

April 30 – Uncle Hugo’s Minneapolis, MN

May 3 – Layton Utah B&N

May 5 – Poisoned Pen, Scottsdale, AZ

May 6 – Mysterious Galaxy, San Diego, CA

May 7 – B&N Huntington Beach, CA

May 8 – Dark Carnival, Berkely CA

May 11 – Powells, Beaverton OR

May 13 – University Bookstore, Seattle WA

May 14 – Aunties Bookstore, Spokane, WA

May 15 – Hastings, Boise ID (and if Mike Shaffer is reading this, I still need to get ahold of your indy store in Boise)