Today in Hawaii

Of the weather we will not speak.

I have written a post for SFFChat, for their Hannukah week, but I'm waiting to get feedback from two beta readers before I send it on.

I have Draft Two finished except for two things:

1) I need to go back through chapters 25 and 26 and do some significant trimming as well as pointing and layering (by which I mean building a series of conversations dramatically). I have bit too much emotional investment in chapter 25 in particular, and it can be difficult in such cases to see them clearly enough to do a good revision job. But fortunately sartorias has a fine pair of beta reading goggles that in their steampunkish manner have illuminated the issues I was IGNORING (or could not quite see).

2) I really have to write the last chapter. This is where I got stuck last time (on Draft One), and I have about half of it written in clunky, awkward first draft form, but now I really Must. Go. Do. It.

Other than that SMALL DETAIL, the book is done *in this draft* (there will be more drafts, but this is the one that will go, at long last, to my editor).

But, oh, wait! There is banana cream pie in the refrigerator.

No one really wants to read Cold Fire anyway, right? The pie, she calls.