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This and That….

Life in Motion, General Stuff, My Book Stuff

There are currently like 9000 blackbirds sitting in my pear trees. They’re loud and annoying as hell. I want them gone. There’s a ton of crap under my trees now, and I feel like I’m in a Hitchcock movie when they spread out all over my property. :hide: Why can’t they go live in someone else’s freakin trees? No wonder our next door neighbor cut down his pear trees. Smart guy.

My vacation is over. I had to do edits on Show Me, my July Samhain release. And galleys have arrived for Hunting the Demon, so I have to go through that this weekend. Oh well. The vacation was nice while I had it.

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Writing Vacation Progress….or Lack Thereof

General Stuff, Writing & Publishing

So as I mentioned last week, I had finished a book and turned it in, and I’m taking off until April 1st before I start another book. I was bound and determined to rest, relax, recharge the old brain batteries that had been drained after more than a year and a half of nonstop writing.

I thought I’d report in on how that was going. Uh, not so well. The damn muse apparently hasn’t figured out what the word relax means. She won’t shut down. Now I have spent a lot of time blog hopping, doing a little reading, doing a lot of watching tv, spending time with biker dude and just brainless stuff, but the muse? She’s annoying the crap out of me. She wants to dig into the next demon hunters book and I won’t let her. Not until April 1st, dammit. So what does she do to me? She’s opening old proposals, and fiddling with old, old books that we aren’t even contracted to write. WTF? She needs to leave me the hell alone for the rest of this week. I’m supposed to be recharging my batteries.

I need to feed her some Xanax or something. Send her to Tahiti. Loan her out to some writer whose own muse has fled and needs some inspiration. The bitch is killing me.

Anyone want an annoying as hell muse for a week? I don’t need her back until April 1st. She’s very persistent.

So….What Have I Been Doing? And What Will I Be Doing?

Writing & Publishing, Life in Motion, General Stuff, My Book Stuff

I’ve been working. Finished up my Samhain novella, Show Me :cheer: And I finished it early, which means I get an entire week and a half off before I have to dive into the next Demon Hunters book. Yippie Ki Yayyy! :boobie:

Which means I’m taking the next week and a half off writing. Now this is practically unheard of for me. I’ve been writing almost nonstop for about a year and a half now. One book on top of another on top of another without a break, because of deadlines. I’m toast, braindead, damn tired. I can’t begin to tell you how much I’m looking forward to this. (I just hope to God galleys don’t arrive in the mail within the next week and a half).

What to do with my time off?

I’ve got ARCs :neener:. I’ve got Sydney Croft’s Riding the Storm, Lara Adrian’s Kiss of Crimson, Meljean Brook’s Demon Moon…..oh the list goes on…. :sasmokin:

I’m spending the next week and a half reading. And doing some work in my garden which, trust me, really really needs it.

And now that the weather’s turned warmer, Biker Dude wants to ride. :charlie: