Balance maintained

Nearing cut off for shirts Been there, done that

Balance maintained

I’ve been watching the chit chat about the knit along, and I’m going to call for a catch-up day today instead of more new instruction. I don’t want anyone to become discouraged by going too fast. There is lots of time yet to finish these before The Drafter comes out and I hit the road, hopefully having a chance to take some pictures with some of your dragons along with mine.

So, balance.

Last night, I got three of the worst reviews I have EVER gotten in my writing career, all in a row, all by professional outfits, not armchair reviewers. Did it bother me? How could it not? But in the end, it’s all . . . Meh. I figure I either wrote a steaming pile of rhino dung, or something that not everyone knows what it is.

Yet.

Again.

No one really knew what The Hollows was either when it first came out, and we all saw what happened to that, so I’m just waiting for The Drafter to find its audience. And it’s out there. There will be some cross over, but really, The Drafter is so different there will be unhappy people expecting to see Rachel reincarnated. (I’m not a one-trick pony, and if this is the punishment for that, bring it on.)

Did I mention balance?

This morning, a reader told me that Sideswiped, sort of a Drafter primer, is up for preorder with an August 10th release. This is the novelette (70 pages) that was giving me so much trouble last month, but I wanted you to have it before The Drafter came out and put in the hard office time.

It will only be released as an e book, but you can read it on just about anything now with the right app–which they usually offer at the main page. Unfortunately there is no cover yet. So if you’re curious, here’s a little something to whet your appetite. Only days away.