There's nothing better than finishing a new project. You beam at the cover art, you put the last flourishes in the text and you get ready to talk about it on your blog, on twitter, and everywhere else because such a feeling of accomplishment is great!
Then your computer flickers.
"No, come on baby. I promise I'll be gentle," you whisper, desperately sending yourself the manuscript in an email or trying to make the usb ports work.
The computer allows you to get a solid connection with your external hard drive. Success, right? You hurry to grab the precious files... and the fans give a final excruciating cry before the whole thing turns off.
Taps plays through your head as you stare into the black abyss of the monitor, your manuscript trapped in the magnetic plates beneath the keyboard.
The sequel to Good as Gold was supposed to be published today, but I'll leave it to my wonderful readers to figure out why I can't do that. Thankfully, there is a fantastic repair shop in town that's already working on it. Assuming the poor thing doesn't die again before I can get the manuscript off it, the sequel should be up next week. As for me?
I'm going laptop shopping.
-Alvery
