Appearances and writing update

Haven't written much about Nicole the writer lately, so here's the story at the moment.

Next Saturday, I'll be signing books in Sydney. 11am at Infinitas in Parramatta, 2pm at Galaxy in the city. Bring along (or buy there) your copies of Secret Ones and/or Power Unbound. I'll have bookplates for you to take to put in Rogue Gadda, when it comes out. And I'm prepared to sign anything you want to bring along.

In fact, I'm going to put a prize on offer, at each location, for the WEIRDEST thing anyone brings me to sign. So get your imagination going [image error]

Hope to see lotsa folks there.

I've been getting excited about the month of April, because I'll be attending two conventions. April 6 to 10 I'll be at the RT Convention in LOS ANGELES!!!!!! 2.15pm on Wednesday 6th I'll be at Club RT and I'm planning to have some copies of my books there for people to snaffle. I'll have the bookplates as well, for the folks who will need to wait to get their hands on the Dream of Asarlai books.

Then April 21 to 25, I'll be at Swancon as an invited guest. So far, the only confirmed thing is that 9am on Saturday morning, I'll be running an abridged version of my Turning Up the Heat workshop, helping to create sizzling sex scenes. It's part of the Romancing the West stream that's being run that day – I'm so thrilled to see an Australian SF convention embracing the romance side of the genre. But I'm sure there will be times I'll be able to sign books or chat over a drink in the bar [image error]

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Now, onto the writing. The paranormal wing of the Romance Writers of Australia is currently running a Book in a Week/ Book in a Month (BIAW, BIAM) to encourage us all to set targets and get writing. My targets for this week were to finish Future Found to get to my readers, work on the proofs for Rogue Gadda and look at some erotica novellas that I've been thinking of submitting.

Well, Future Found went to my readers on Monday, and I've got just one little thing to tweak in the proofs and they'll be done. I started writing a new novella idea that isn't quite coming together yet, but I think has potential. I haven't looked yet at the main novella that I want to sub, so will do so today.

This week, the plan is to return to the draft of Lost Hope (book two of the People of the Star trilogy) that I abandoned at the end of January to work on revising Future Found. My plan is to have that draft written by the end of March. I won't have a wordcount aim for this week because I have to go back to revise some of what I've already written, thanks to how Future Found worked out but hopefully I will be increasing on the 55,000 words already written.

I've also got some reading to do. I'm judging for the RWA this year and have some stories to get through, and I've got some beta reading to do for a friend who's reading Future Found. I'm also thinking of going to the CSFG short story crit this week, although time may be against me for that.

I head up to Sydney on Thursday and won't be home until late Monday/Tuesday (unsure about that yet) so that might upset some of the work plans. I hope not.

Onwards and upwards!