Finished!

The first draft for Breaking The Covenants is finished. 115K words.

Now come the polishing.

I really like how Celina set up for the next one.

For a friend

My co-author for Breaking The Covenants, Celina Summers has a new release today.

The title is The Temptation of Asphodel and it's the third in a series of four books she's turning out.

Get a copy. It's good.

Update

Somehow I managed to pound out 2,300 words on Breaking The Covenants yesterday. I'm pretty pleased with that.

I'm figuring that including what my co-author wrote the book is 110,000 words now. Yay! The end (of the first draft) is in sight.

I don't have anything planned for that today so I think I'll work on my menage erotic romance I'm calling Among The Stacks as one of the characters is a rather repressed librarian. Not to worry. She's anything but repressed by the end of it.

New review

For In The Dark.

Desiree at Enchanting Reviews just loved it.

Yay me.

5:30 in the morning

And I've got nothing better to do but post on my blog.

Well, okay, I do have better things to do but I'm procrastinating about those things.

Not a good weekend. My sleep's been awful. As you can probably guess from the time I'm posting. Part of it was dealing with a personal emotional crisis. That's done now, for the most part

The other is that I'm really intimidated by the scene I have to write for Breaking The Covenants. It's big! Not in word count, though I'm betting this scene will be between four and five thousand words in length. It's the number of characters in it. I'm used to more intimate scenes. I've never had more than four or five characters in a single scene before. This time there will be four or five times that many. So I have to do a lot to make sure each is individual and each is unique.

That's a big order.

Still, I'll get it done. I'm good at that.

Word count on Breaking The Covenants currently stands at a little under 103,000 words. *grin*

A quick report

My latest writing project, Breaking The Covenants continues apace.

As of this morning it stands at about 96,000 words.

Yay me.

Tsk

Been way too long since I posted something here.

Not a lot to report though.

My latest writing project continues apace.

And Saturday I get to go out drinking with some of my favorite people in the world. One in particular. Although I'm way too much of a coward to put the moves on her.

That's all. Carry on.

On Proposition 8

I know it shouldn't concern me since I live thousands of miles away from California, but it does.

But Proposition 8, the amendment to the California State Constitution that now claims that marriage can only be between a man and a woman is just wrong. A friend of mine had a horrible time trying to explain to her children why they can't be considered a family anymore.

As some one I know said a few months ago, "It's love. And it's a gift. Why quibble about the wrapping?"

Worried

Being rather a bit of a political junky I've been following the U.S. Election very closely. And I'll confess to being very worried about it.

There has been such extreme anger on the part of the people who label themselves 'conservatives'. Although I regard them as revolutionaries. They may talk a lot about freedom and the rule of law but their intention, in my opinion, is to toss those things out the window and replace it with a strict authoritarian system where no one takes a shit without the say so of those in charge.

This, of course, won't apply to themselves. It never does to such people.

So this election has me worried. If Obama wins, as looks most probable, these revolutionaries will probably decide that the system has failed them. That makes it likely that they will decide that violence is the only route remaining to them, that what they believe must be imposed on America as it is now obvious to them that Americans aren't smart enough to make the correct choice.

As bad, maybe worse, is if McCain wins. This will radicalize many of the people in the centre, or the left as it's known in America. McCain winning will sharpen the divisions that plague the States. These divisions may become too sharp and too wide for America to remain a valid political entity.


"A house divided against itself cannot stand," as Abraham Lincoln put it.

We're living in interesting times. Unfortunately.

Things are good

I seem to have, for the moment, rediscovered useful sleeping habits. It's so nice not wandering around in a haze of fatigue.

The project I'm working on with Celina Summers is proceeding apace. The story has gone places I've never expected, probably because we're both pansters. But we have the plot firmed up. And we've decided that it is the first book of a trilogy.

The title of the first book is going to be Breaking The Covenants. This is because the background of the story centers around the covenants that vampires live by, and the consequences of breaking them.

It's a great story and I'm very flattered that Celina agreed to work with me.