CV4 From Start to Finish - Part I - Preparation

Hi, everyone! This post will begin a new series here at on the blog--since I'm about to start writing the fourth book in the Chicagoland Vampires series (tentatively titled HARD BITTEN), I thought I'd track the steps in the writing/publishing process to give everyone a sense of how the novel moves from start to finish.
First things first--here's an estimate of the calendar for the process (assuming a publication date in July 2011, which is just a guess): April 2010 - May 2010: Brainstorming...