Alive and with the Nog

It's Christmas Eve. I survived my copyedits. Hoo-rah! That doesn't mean I'm slacking off, though. I wrote a Civil War steampunk novelette this month--my first novelette--and I love the thing even though I know it will need to be shredded in revisions. I'm also part of a group working on a website for authors with novels coming out in 2014-2015. I'm getting a swift education in the workings of Wordpress. It can do some nifty things, that's for sure. I'll post a lot more about that site in the next while.

I'm using this last part of December to play catch-up and work-ahead, as I start writing my Clockwork sequel on January 1st. This is terrifying on several levels (my first sequel! my first book totally under contract! first deadline not set by me!) but I'm also excited to get the whole story out. This means I'll still be sparse on LJ, so I likely won't get to comment much.

I posted the Bready or Not for this week yesterday; tomorrow will be a different sort of post. However, while I'm here I also thought I'd share a little bonus. See, this year my husband had the grand idea, "Let's make our own egg nog!" Since it involved kitchen stuff I was totally up for that, even though I have never been crazy about store nog. I can have one sip and I don't want anymore. Root beer is the same way for me.

Homemade egg nog? No comparison. This stuff is good. And yes, we happened to add some rum.

Here's the step-by-step recipe we've been following, courtesy of Instructables.

(Until this recipe, I had no idea how sheltered my husband was. I totally accepted that he didn't know how to do soft peaks or stiff peaks with egg whites--I had to learn that myself just a few years ago--but he had no idea how to separate eggs.

Now he knows. And knowing is half the battle. GI JOE.)

Merry Christmas!