Sculpting Unicorns—Or, What to Do with No Deadlines

, the second Unicorns of the Mist book finally agreed to let me title it Herder’s Secret. The first draft  is done and off to my editor. The proof pages for Wonder Light have been combed through and sent back to production, and my discussion and activity guide for Wonder Light is with the design team, getting prettied up. And that means . . . no more deadlines! Woohoo!

After writing 2 novels and a novella—Venture Unbroken, Herder’s Secret, and Boundless—not to mention revisions and edits for Wonder Light, Boundless, and Venture Unbroken all in 2012, all under deadlines, I promised myself I’d spend the rest of December writing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

I even made a list, while I was writing away all year, of things to do after deadlines. On that list, right after Christmas cards and dusting the ceiling fan—Play with clay! An old friend’s been calling my name—Sculpey—the king of bakeable modeling clay.

This lump is telling me it wants to be a unicorn!