Guess where I'm blogging from, Minions??

After about five months of waiting on contractors, waiting on a painter guy, waiting on a wallpaper dude, waiting on furniture deliverers, I am proud to announce that I am FINALLY blogging from my new office in completion! It is so gothtastic! I'm planning to snap some pics this week and do a big blog on how cool it looks, but for now, just know that I am surrounded by lovely, lovely black, and happy as can be. I got a new desk – and I like it – it's just not my old desk. My old desk felt a certain way, and everything had its place. The new desk…well…we're still getting to know one another.

As for what I'm accomplishing with this new desk, I'm well into the second round of revisions for the first book in THE SLAYER CHRONICLES. I say "first book" because I'm not loving the title BEGINNING. (What am I gonna call the third book in the series? MIDDLE? Ugh…) But I haven't come up with anything new yet that reflects what this book is all about. I have had peeks at what the cover will be though, and it looks awesome! I can hardly wait to see the final cover (and share it with you, my faithful Minion Horde, of course).

My editor is reading BLOODBOUND (or will be soon), so those edits will likely come fast on the heals of TSC1 (THE SLAYER CHRONICLES #1). So the desk will definitely be seeing a lot of work. But that's okay, because I have discovered something about myself, Minions. Something I never realized.

I like work. I like being busy. As long as I'm busy with the stuff I want to be busy with. I love writing, even like editing, so that stuff I can do a million times over. But man, do I need my no-people-around-me downtime. I like to refer to myself as an extroverted introvert: I can be outgoing and social when life calls for it, but unless it does…STICK ME BACK IN MY CAVE!

My wallpapered, lovely black cave.

Anyhoo, I was thinking about a few hints I could give you all about what to expect on September 20, 2011 (!!!) when TSC1 debuts, and here's what I've come up with:

1. You will see two characters from CoVT beyond Joss and his family in this first book.

2. TSC is much darker than CoVT.

3. In this book, you will learn more about bugs than you ever really wanted to know.

4. TSC1 has a higher deathcount than the first four CoVT books combined.

5. You will meet Cecile.

Any questions?