Meanwhile, back at the ranch: a finished first draft

I have completed the first draft of my latest project, COLD MAGIC. For me, it's short (first draft is about 170,000 words and I expect that will be trimmed down to 150,000 -- but I have to say that despite that heap-o-words the thing does, I believe, read very fast).

This is a very different project for me. For one, it's written in first person. For two, it's got funny bits -- not comedy so much as the voice of the main character and the way she sees things sometimes -- as well as dead serious