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Well the workshop is over, everyone’s back from the RWA conference, and I need to get back to the business of blogging.

Bet y’all are just dying to know what I’ve been up to (or not :giggle: )

Last week I worked on a proposal for a new book. Wrote a honking long synopsis, a couple chapters, cleaned it all up and sent it off to my agent on Monday. Once that was off my desk, I read through galleys (finished page proofs) for THE TIES THAT BIND, my novella in the UNLACED anthology coming from Berkley Heat in December. Sent corrections off to my editor this morning.

Basically, all my pending projects are done! I do have a novella I need to write for Samhain, which I can either start on this week or wait until after I get back from vacation.

Yes…vacation. Starting Saturday, Biker Dude and I will be taking five glorious days and going on vacation. The vacation story is interesting since Hurricane Dolly blasted our vacation plans right out of the water. We were going to go to South Padre Island in south Texas…you know, that place where the hurricane made landfall? Yeah, no such luck. The hotel called us on Friday and said they sustained too much damage which hasn’t yet been repaired so they cancelled us. So we had to make alternate plans. Which we did. Because I SO need to get out of town, rest and recharge my batteries.

So the rest of this week will be spent doing laundry, making a packing list, doing some cleanup and reorganizing since I’ve been mostly writing nonstop since January without a break, and maybe working on the novella. And reading! I so need to catch up on reading. There are some great books that I have that I need to read.

What are you doing this week?

Ticking Off The To Do List

Life in Motion

Multiple projects are getting done (Finally!!!!)

Turned in Riding On Instinct to Berkley a couple weeks ago.

Turned in Taken By Sin to Bantam Dell today.

Two MAJOR projects completed and off my desk. I can’t tell you what a huge relief it is to have those two projects completed.

I have a conference this weekend (Conestoga, here in Tulsa, in case anyone wants to come). It should be fun. I’ll get to see a lot of my pals. I’m excited! :boobie:

Now all I need to do is write a proposal and get that turned into my agent, then I’ll be all set to take vacation in a couple weeks.

I so need a vacation….

:glee:

But What If I Died?

Life in Motion

So Biker Dude and I took this long bike trip this weekend. We did about 260+ miles in one day. Fun. Long hot day, but fun.

I’ll tell you all about that later. What’s interesting is that when I ride with him, I have a lot of time to enjoy the open road and do some thinking. One of the things that popped into my mind over the weekend was….what if he and I died? Who would notify my online friends?

Biker Dude knows my closest friends are here online. If something should happen to me, he knows who to call. But what if he and I should have an accident or die together? My kids wouldn’t have the slightest idea who in my list of cell phone contacts to call. Should I put a (bff) next to their names so they’d know? :giggle:

Yes, I know this is a morbid topic (one of said bff’s, Angie, did the same kind of post this morning. You can tell we hit on a hot topic. But it’s one that was seriously thought provoking.

A lot of us forge friendships here on the Internet. Maybe not in person ones, but bonded ones nonetheless. What if one of us just disappeared? Would we know who to get in touch with? Do our loved ones/family members know who to call if something should happen to us?

Deep stuff for a Monday, huh?