"Reality is a lovely place, but I wouldn't want to live there."

 I'm right now wrapped up in a blanket, listening to what my brothers call hippy music, and trying to decide if I want tea now or later. It is afternoon and the storm which pounded us with rain this morning has broken, which is sad. 
 I've been having one of those weeks...I don't really know why people call them such. I think it is a term women made up for, "Look at me wrong and die." Basically, I've had a crummy week. We all get them, when ever disaster imaginable hits us like a bag of bird feathers.  My bird feathers consisted of a boss accusing me unjustly, friends changing and needing time alone, contracts, and a sharp pain in my side which probably isn't good. (If I have to go to the doctor again I think...hm, don't know what I will do. Run for my life screaming like Mickey when the frozen rats fell on him? Yeaaah.)

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 Anyhow, between deadlines and sicknesses and contracts and trying not to flood the bathroom, I've been in a funk for the last few days. The kind of, "Leave me alone to die." So, today, I ditched my editing, naughty me, and went for a hike up in the mountains, in the rain, with John. Really, nothing clears a funk like getting pelted with icy raindrops while hoping the trigger happy hunters aren't going to mistake you in your baggy pilot jacket for a deer.  Sure, not all my problems are gone, which is good, because then I'd be dead, but I'm as back to normal now as I ever get. And I'm back to editing. Not the book, but the short story I kept hinting at. I've almost finished it, then I will probably do one of the backwards edits and then I will try formatting. Formatting will be fun if I can figure it out. (Also, since this edit isn't as long and tedious as the book, you will be spared the random, my brain is suffering from editing, posts.)
 Also, since I am out of my funk - really, I think rain is a better cure then chocolate! - I've thought it was time to give a proper book update. 
 First off, comments.  I love all your comments, and I like answering them, and reading your blogs. However, with the editing, trailer, formatting, more editing, cover, writing, I don't have as much time to read your blogs as I would like. I try to read them all at least once a week - and if you leave a comment I read your new post when I answer it. (This isn't a bribery to get more comments, it is just less time consuming for me to do it this way for now. I'm trying to re-work my schedule to get to more blogs. But, just so you know, I'm not ignoring all of you. You know...just busy fighting dragons and feeding a baby hedgehog and all)
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 Two: THANK YOU ALL MY NEW FOLLOWERS!!!!!!!!!! I'm now at 46, and I keep staring at the number in shock. Like Moriarty when he was talking to Sherlock. "Then you can relish the look of surprise on my face." (Er...um, no, I don't look like Moriarty.)
 Three: In the last post someone asked when the book will be released now I've turned down the contract. I'm afraid I cannot release the official date yet - as I'm still not sure that will BE the official date. (I will go into more detail with all this next week, when I explain better what's going on.) Right now though, I guess it will be okay to share the month.  Fall is out. I'm not sure when I got so behind on everything, but yeah, getting it out this fall - seeing as how it is already fall...just isn't going to work. Both my artist and I would fall over from exhaustion and we are already close to doing that as is. So, to spare you all the fainting, I moved it back. To......December. Besides, a Christmasy release might be more fun. (I'm not saying it is coming out Christmas day or anything, just that it is coming out more the middle of December then the first.)
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 And now I am going to go hunt down the time Elementary will be showing today. (Ducks the BBC fans and the flying tomatoes.) What can I say? This is my revenge against Moffat, and it isn't like I could let my friend Abbey watch it on her own. Sometimes, revenge means friends have to stick together. *Smirk*
 Allons-y!!!

 HAHA, sorry. I wasn't really going to leave. I promised you the plot of the short story and information on it. Including the title. Which you can find HERE/ CLICK HERE. I would love to know your thoughts on it. And, when it is out, I hope it is some consolation for my having to move the book's release date back.

 Anyways, I'm going now. I'm ready for bed.

 ALLONS-Y! This time for real.