It’s the first day back after a week in Florida with my family and my sister-in-law’s family. It rained a lot which meant there weren’t as many beach/pool days as I’d hoped, but we had a lot of family time. Lots of laughter and food and rainy day activities. Overall, it was a great time…
I have a whole list of things I should probably be doing today but very little motivation to do any of them. At least yesterday I was productive. I managed to finish formatting the manuscript for Botanical Mischief and wrote the introduction for the world so that new readers aren’t completely lost. (A surprisingly difficult…
It’s felt like Friday since like Tuesday. That could be because the household was once again sick, necessitating several doctor/er visits. Luckily, no hospitalizations this time. (Good lord, the things that make me happy these days) I’m seeing a lot of questions abut the Gus serial. Just so you know, there won’t be any more…
Ignoring the signs that warned against straying from marked paths, Gus mounted a low hanging branch and followed it up into the tree. Thankfully, she was an old hand at navigating the Lord of Titan or she’d be like those tourists. Hopelessly lost. The tree’s interior was a maze. The interwoven trunks that allowed it…
It’s been a hellacious few days. Probably some of the worst in a really long time. Both children ended up in the hospital again for bronchiolitis. The eldest had a three day PICU stay. As dire as that sounds, things are on an upward swing. Everyone is home and on the mend. It’s sunny out…
“Dearie, your friends are here,” Kyle’s mom called, sounding far away as Gus stepped through the hatch into a back room that must have served as the restaurant’s kitchen at one point. The appliances and counters around the space seemed to support that assessment. To Gus’s relief, there was evidence of vegetables being cut up,…
The restaurant’s interior was as humble and unassuming as its exterior. The only thing declaring it as a place where people could get food were the tables scattered randomly throughout the space. Most of which looked like they’d been sourced from the local scrap heap. Sheets of metal served as table tops. Some of the…
No Gus chapter today. I got Lasik eye surgery yesterday and I’m still adjusting. The words are just a little too glowy for me to want to work for long periods. In other news–I’m getting a lot of questions of whether Gus will be turned into an ebook/physical book. The answer is yes to both….
Whew. What a difficult end of the year/beginning of the new year it has been. Due to a variety of personal and business reasons that I don’t feel like getting into, I think this has been my most stressful release yet. But it’s done. I finished my final readthrough of Echoes of Insurrection yesterday and…
The third draft is done and off to the beta readers and my editor. Thank you to everyone who signed up to beta read. We had over a hundred submissions. I actually increased the number of beta readers to sixteen this time because of how many there were. Every time I finish one of these…
