Hurricane Fever: solid draft achieved

I’m sitting here in my sister’s backyard, watching the twins chase a medicine ball around while a neighbor’s pug loses its mind about the affront of kids playing just on the other side of a fence.

I tried to finish a good draft of my latest novel, Hurricane Fever (due out from Tor sometime in 2014) by Tuesday of this week because I knew the road trip taking me from Ohio to Newport, RI was coming.

But I came up short. I was close enough it was frustrating, as I knew a day of hard work was all th...