Just a quick note for Becoming Robin and/or Boys Don't Cry fans, I'm still writing, and I'm still okay. :-) There's a lot happening in my life, none of it I'm really at liberty to discuss right now because some of it is business-related, and the rest of it is very very personal, and I respect the other person involved's privacy too much to say anything in public like this. ;-)

What I CAN say is that if all goes well, in the next six months:

1) I'll have a contract job as a professional writer for a project you'll be hearing about before long. I signed a non-disclosure agreement so I can't say anything other than that the company legally recognizes me as Zoe ;-)

2) Road trip. This is another of those "If all goes well and the stars align" things. As in, if things work out I'm going to be spending somewhere between a couple of weeks to a month entirely full-time as Zoe. :-)

3) Transition. I have a very dear friend living in Florida who's offered to take me in in a few months, once things settle down in both our lives. At that point, she's going to help me go through the steps that I need to be myself once and for all, including finding a proper therapist, arranging laser hair removal, and all that fun stuff. Even if I don't transition fulltime, I want the hair removal done because I am so sick of shaving my face :-P

It's not all roses and gumdrops. I've had to face and deal with a LOT of personal demons just in the last two weeks and I still have a long, hard road ahead, but even if things don't go well, and 1 and 2 don't happen, 3 is still on the table. I don't plan to rush into anything of course. I'm not going to do something stupid like self-medicate on hormones or something, but I really, really need this if I'm going to ever feel like a normal human being :-)

Anyway, the personal demon stuff is actually what's gotten in the way of my writing more than the new job has. The job is one of the three that I would without hesitation consider a dream job, and not because I'm signed on as Zoe :-P

I've been sitting on this news for two weeks now, but with Robin and Sarah's stories slowing, I wanted to let everyone know that they're not in any danger of being stopped. Besides, someone very near and dear to me would be furious if I stopped writing either. ;-)

Love,
Zoe