A thousand teeth and yours among them

Here's recent progress on my modern gothic ghost story about a salvage crew trapped in a doomed southern mansion - now with a crunchy murder ballad center and Bonus! clandestine cemetery where the stones don't match the bodies (and were never meant to). As inspired by a (semi)true local legend:
Project: The Family Plot
Deadline: January 15, 2015
New words written: 4107 (2-day total)
Present total word count: 27,668



Things accomplished in fiction: Got ditched; got some bourbon; told a ghost story; went to settle in for the night and take a shower.

Things accomplished in real life: Neighborhood jaunts with dog; another trip to Walgreens; lots of laundry; a few phone calls; brief visit with neighbor; caught up on some TV with the husband.

Yardwork Other: I thought I'd take a crack at some today, but I was mistaken. It got kind of hot, and I got caught up in other things.

Other Other: Not entirely unrelated to the above...I finally have a rough draft of a pitch for a new project. I'll clean it up over the weekend, and start drumming up starter content next week. Working title: The Pyrograph.

Utterly Random Other: Yesterday I learned that I was born on the day Jimmy Hoffa disappeared. Make of this what you will.

Number of fiction words so far this year: 178,749

For Throwback Thursday, I give you my senior portrait. Big hair, braces, and 17-year-old me as a New Romantic. BAM. Nailed it.




And because I'm shameless, and still trying to scare up more reviews and/or orders (always, yes. always.) ... here you go with all the usual links. But hey, at least I put it at the end, right?

Maplecroft at Amazon
Maplecroft on Kindle
Maplecroft at iTunes
Maplecroft at B&N (Nook and trade paperback)
Maplecroft at your local bookseller via IndieBound
Maplecroft at Goodreads