We Will See

It's not so much that I've been gone as I had what writer/editor/blogger Kris Rusch calls "life rolls". My folks health isn't what it was and they've needed a little more help. I have the time and my kids are at the stage where they don't need me quite as much. So I've spent quite a lot of time helping out. It's harder to work at my parents because, of course, I'm there to be on their schedule, giving them a hand. My own health has hit a couple of bumpy bits--not serious, per se but not wonderful either.

I've had to amend some of what I write because the genre I was writing in was getting more and more difficult for various reasons. So, I'm diversifying. This has been reasonably successful. I've written two more books and a long novella. These are still in the rough stages. They need time to percolate in the back of my brain.

Of course, I just signed a contract on a book from that original genre.... It's remarkable how suddenly, when I say I need to work, people don't interrupt me quite as much these days. The joy of an actual sale. I must be serious, the thinking goes, because I have signed a contract and there will be money involved.

So this month, there will be actual edits from an actual editor. Next month, there will be a book out in the atmosphere with my pen name attached to it and the name of a publisher who is not me. This is quite scary--and also somewhat exhilarating. To be honest, now that it has had time to sink in and I've actually done the paperwork, I think I'm more terrified than excited. But the first week or so was pretty sweet.

I want to tidy up something awesome to give to my friends at Golden Fleece. In July, I have to finish the series of novellas that track my Ghost Chasing team through their first few investigations. I'd like to finish up one of my succubus/incubus alt history romances too. I've been beating my head against this particular book for a year. I'm not sure how to fix it. I can't dump it. It's part of the over arching series. Like the rest of that series, this PITA needs to go through the self pub process. I'd like to submit a contemporary to my new publisher sometime in the fall--but that needs to be finished as well.

Hmm. As usual, I'm biting off more than I can chew. The rest of my life is pretty busy too, as I said. We'll see, friends and neighbors. We will see.