Whoosh. The last several weeks have been a total whirl. I’m trying to forcibly calm my life down,
as I just can’t take the pace much longer. The last time I posted was about four weeks ago. In a
span of only fourteen days, the following happened: I did seven (!) library talks, helped plan my mom’s
birthday dinner, totalled my car, found a new car, wrestled with the insurance company over both cars,
failed to get to a friend’s wedding because of the car wreck and had to deal with that, started work
on my church’s website and had to attend two meetings for my CoHousing Association.

In the two weeks since then, I’ve attended Motor City, (which involved cleaning my filthy house for
Layla’s visit), started to plan for Mid-Ohio Con, attended four more CoHousing meetings, finished the dialogue wrangling on Issue Five,
did a signing at Green Brain Comics
and managed to get the rest of the car woes hammered out. Knock wood.

Jane. Is. Exhausted.

So that, dear reader, is why there have been no darn updates recently. When I finally get my center back,
there will be more.

I’m also starting a massive site overhaul on both the Vogelein side and the Fiery Studios side. I think that
dribs and drabs will be up as they’re finished, rather than wait for everything to be completed at once.
One thing I will be doing shortly is putting up the original illustrations I did for Call of the Wild and
Alice in Wonderland. Then I’ll be putting a whole new face on Fiery Studios — it’s about time; the front end
hasn’t changed a lick since 1998. So keep your eyes out… things will be changing.