General Updates

Thanks to Merry Maids, my slow cooker, and the wonderful efficiency of the Springtime Anthology authors, I finally feel I'm getting on top of everything.  The anthology books are nearing completion and will be turned in for formatting by the end of this month, and I no longer have to scroll to see all the emails in my inbox.  This is partly because I've created a folder named Answer for non-urgent, non-work emails, but still…

Work on the Secret Project is going pretty well, and I'm aiming to have it done by the end of February.  Work on Chains of the Volcano has taken very much second place, I'm afraid.  March will be the month I shove it up to first place and work hard on it.

I have some edits to do on In the Shadow of the Volcano, my Valentine's Day Free Read, after my crit partners read it.  And then I'll be formatting that and uploading it ready to go live on February 14th.

I'm also planning promo for Blood of the Volcano, which releases February 22nd.  Stay tuned for details of the release day contest and prizes!

I'm not keeping up 100% with my New Year's resolutions.  However, I have taken photos most days (27 total for January), and although I haven't quite blogged every other day, I have blogged more regularly than I was managing before.

I am managing to both cook seasonally and count calories.  So far, Abstract has lost weight.  Me, not so much!  But it's getting easier now I'm not so completely tired and overwhelmed by busyness.  And I am getting back into exercising, which feels really nice.

I haven't updated my Kindle Reading page for ages, but I have organised all the books into folders on the Kindle, so  updating the page on the blog won't exactly be hard work.  And why I haven't done it already I don't know.

In other news, I'm trying to think of a good series name for my Volcano books.  There'll be two of them out by the end of this month (not counting the free read), and Chains will be the third, so assuming my editor contracts it, it would be useful to readers to have a specific series name they can use to keep track of the books.  I could just call it the Volcano Series or Chronicles of the Volcano or one of those kind of names, but I'd rather go for something that gives more of an idea of the genre and feel of the books.

And finally, I was kind of charmed by the warning in the blurb for this book on the new (gorgeous, by the way!) Samhain site.  The book is Shelter from the Storm by Samantha Sommersby, and the warning reads:

This book may spoil you for real relationships. It contains a beautiful woman with a dark and dangerous past, sensational sailboat sex and a leather-wearing, motorcycle-riding man who loves kids, knows how to cook and actually listens.

Okay, I have no dark and dangerous past, my life contains no sailboat sex (I won't specify on the sensational part for the sake of my children who sometimes read my blog), but a "leather-wearing, motorcycle-riding man who loves kids, knows how to cook and actually listens"?  Yep, I married him.