I've got nothing much to live for, ever since I found my fame

So here's recent progress on my young adult haunted house story about a long-lost adventure pulp comic manuscript that's guarded by a good ghost and a bad ghost; now with Bonus! gentrifying drama, golden-age mystery, Hollywood intrigue, fallout from The Storm, and an agent who's just trying to do the right thing, goddammit:

Project: Drawing Fire
Deadline: November, 2015
New words written: 2004 (cumulative)
Present total word count: 33,381



Things Accomplished in Fiction: Waiting for breakfast; reading some comics; testing the theory that all knowledge is contained within the internet.

Things Accomplished in Real Life: Neighborhood jaunts with the dog; supper with a friend; more housework; more laundry - as I need to pack for Chicago; went to grocery store; went to post office.

Other: Kittengrams .

Travel Other: Oh yeah, Chicago. Or rather, Naperville - if you want to get particular about it. I'm leaving Thursday for the Anderson Bookshop's Young Adult Literature Conference. Huzzah!

Number of fiction words so far this year: 89,399