Mad for greed: Friday Update

News:

She’s a young woman who rebelled against her family by becoming evangelical; he’s the avarice demon that accepts her family’s virgin ‘sacrifice’ as his bride. Resolute innocence vs. intriguing corruption in the fourth Meridian novel (standalone, spicy), AVARICE & CREED, under my other name. It should be available on Amazon in about a week, but here’s the link to the Entwined Publishing page.

I’m kind of disappointed that Meridian (dark urban fantasy) hasn’t had the same love that Arcanium (demonic circus, horror romance) did, because I think they’re both great fun. But I’ll continue putting them out there until Entwined tells me to stop. I’ll be working on writing the last one this November.

When it doesn’t rain, it pours: I had another job interview this week. Not sure how it went, since it was a preliminary phone interview and it’s sometimes hard to hear tone beyond customer-service voice, but I thought it went all right.

We also put up Halloween in the house, which gives me a whole bunch of pieces of joy to look at all October. Most spooky Halloween decor is kind of just decor for me, but an abundance of pumpkins and orange mark my Halloween season and keep it special.

Works in Progress:

I’m at about 96K words on the DRI and have only five more scenes to do, so there’s finally an end in sight and I’m not struggling as much as was earlier this week. Life things personal and global made the flow slow down significantly. So, instead of writing, I watched Silent Hill on Tuesday in a mostly successful attempt to reset. I should almost certainly finish by the end of the weekend, which would mean I wrote it in less than a month, even though I wasn’t enforcing word count goals for this project. Pretty awesome. I’ll do a stat rundown next week after everything is finished, stitched together, and put away.

Once the DRI is done, it’s time to put on my editing pants. I’m not going to get everything done by PitDark on October 24, unfortunately, but I’ll get done what I can.

Things I’m Reading:

Found edited by Gabino Iglesias and Andrew Cull

Things I’m Listening To:

Halloween playlist

Things I’m Watching:

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Silent Hill
Halloween Wars series
Halloween Baking Championship series
Columbo series
Abbott Elementary series
Shogun series
American Horror Story: Cult series
Worst Ex Ever series
S.W.A.T. series
Good Bones series
Supernatural series

Poem of the Week:

hang up dead garlands
arrange invertebrate bones
ration our temptations
to make it through
without a trick
call upon the dead
and expect an answer
light the lanterns
pumpkin glow
cut the cords
to make them bleed
knock knock
who’s there
who indeed
just give us
what we need

Grey’s Anatomy series