The BARROO Report

Blessed Thanksgiving to all of you!

Especially those of you who are staying HOME today -- or at least, if you aren't home, you're going to spend the day with someone else and you're not out SHOPPING -- or worse, you have to work because some bargain hungry twit made so much noise last year about missing out on bargains that corporate decided to make you guys work. Honestly!!!!

Okay, back on track ....

I'm delighted to report that THE WICKED QUEEN, my project for this year's National Novel Writing Month, was finished last Friday. 117 THOUSAND words in the first draft. It's going to be a lot of fun when it's published. At least, I hope you think so. I had fun taking some classic faerie tales and not so classic faerie tales and twisting them around. For instance, in my version of The Princess and the Pea, the princess is RUNNING from several good-for-nothing princes who want to marry her and become king of her father's kingdom -- and they use a magic spell to make her allergic to peas, to help them find her. Or the LITTLE MERMAID who wasn't ready to give up her tail to marry the prince, and now she has to find the knife that he used to cut off her hair, so she can return to the sea. Along with a twist on the Emperor's New Clothes and The Tinderbox. And of course, a wicked queen who gets reformed almost against her will.

Right now, I'm focusing on revising and polishing ODESSA FREMONT, the first book in the Guardians of the Time Stream series, Steampunk, that will be coming out from Desert Breeze Publishing next year. I think you'll have some fun with it -- I know I have been!