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Whatca' Reading?

I took a vacation to Valaprasio, Indiana to visit Mason's grandma and brough along a bunch of books because, even though I have revisions I should be working on, I really needed a bit of "input." I read Amy Thompson's THROUGH ALIENS EYES which I enjoyed tremendously, and I started Cherie Priest's FATHOM and sort of start-stopped Sharyn McCrumb's BIMBO'S OF THE DEATH SUN (it's become quite dated or it hasn't aged well, I think.)

Anyway, it got me wondering... what are YOU kids reading these ...

Monday Afternoon WIP

I'm home with a sick kid and revisions for HONEYMOON OF THE DEAD (due at the end of the month.)

You?

Friday Cat Blogging

Lazy days r good days!



I am not looking at you. In fact, I am looking exactly 12 degrees away from you. So there!



I'z mah blanket and I'll zzzzz if I want to, zzzzz if I want to, zzzzz.....



Summer can't be almost over, can it?



Legs? Who needs legs?



They went that way!

And It's Off....

I hate to knock down Sean's lovely picture of our Minnesota weather, so I'll be brief. I just wanted to report that, as of ten o'clock last night, I electronically delivered Tate's young adult novel ALMOST TO DIE FOR. (Now I'm in the process of printing out a paper copy.) The only thing I have left to do to finish up my initial contractual obligations is to finish the proposal for ALMOST FINAL CURTAIN, the second book in the trilogy.

Yay.

Autumn Wonderland

"...then Summer gave Autumn a jump and went straight on into Winter..."

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Monday WIP Open Thread

As a friend of mine posted on Facebook today...

"And suddenly, it was Monday."

That seems particularly apt today. It has been snowing in Saint Paul since before I got up, and it's still at it. This is unusual even for us. The temps are supposed to get back in the 40s tomorrow, but still...it helps make it a bit more Monday than usual.

I am also home with a sick child, which doesn't make things any less Monday, either.

Despite all that, though, I am still in good spirits work-wise. I figured out t...

Friday Cat Blogging

Would you hurry up with the tuna crepes already?



I wuvz my powerstrip, and it wuvz me, is that wrong?



Fierce jungle cat is fierce, damnit!



Naptime....



I'z too sexy for my snuggly



I am the walrus, kookookachoo!

New Cover -- Honeymoon of the Dead

I got the .jpg for the cover for HONEYMOON OF THE DEAD, which will be the last book in the Garnet Lacey series. The publisher decided to go with a completely different look.



Tell me what you think!

Done... Mostly!

I just wanted to post that I finished the first draft of my (or, rather, Tate's) young adult novel ALMOST TO DIE FOR, the first of the vampire princess of Saint Paul novels.

In fact, in about two minutes I'm leaving for Naomi's house to face the music (of critique.) Because done for me is so rarely DONE. It seems I'm forever editing and massaging and fixing and remixing -- both while I'm writing and "after."

Next, I need to write a proposal for book 2 in the series -- for the first time I'm...

Monday Two-for-One: WIP and Smart Things

I got some good news last week: a NY publisher is interested in making an offer on my first novel and a follow-up. Yay!

But, after the shouting and the toasting and the scotch (I've been keeping a bottle of 25 year old single cask in reserve for this day), a couple of things occurred to me:

1. They want another book.
2. They likely want another book set in the universe of the one they are currently interested in.
3. My current WIP is nothing remotely like point #2.

I know, I know -- everyone shoul...