I have BOOKS!

Oh my GOD. I thought these were going to arrive today. I don’t know *why* I thought so, but I did. I have got in my hot little hands the mass market paperback releases of THE WALKER PAPERS. BHAHAHAHAHAH! I am excited beyond *belief* to have these books. They’re in the stores June 1, and they’re the first mass market releases under the C.E. Murphy name, so even if they’re reprints I’m BAHAHAHAHAHH! …there are 48 copies of each. What in God’s name am I going to do with this…

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quick note

I was going to say “quick note, not wordcount-related”, but that’s not true, as I’ve now blown past the halfway mark in the book, so yay me. The 2/3rds mark feels Very Far Away right now, which is sort of depressing. (It’s not *that* far away, about 13.5K, but that feels like a lot just now.) But on the positive side, I’m vacillating between “oh god, I don’t have enough book left for this story” and “oh god, I don’t have enough story left for this book”, which may not…

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blossoms!

We have wee little apple blossoms on our apple tree! And a wee small rhubarb popping up! Hooray! Woot! The fifth Walker Papers books has a title! It will be DEMON HUNTS, and I am having a very good time writing it right now. Yay! Dude. You guys came up with some fantastic casting choices for the Negotiator trilogy. I wish I had about fifteen copies of the anthology to send out, because you did *not* make this an easy choice! I’m going to have to do something cool for…

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*happy*

I have just finished writing the scene you didn’t even know you were waiting for, but can’t wait to read, and I am Happy. ♥

oh NOT BLOODY FAIR!

I have been working ALL DAY on a VERY SLOW chapter with no fastness in the writing at ALL and I have FINALLY finished it and now I’ve discovered that I am 149 words away from 30K on the book. ARGH! *goes to write another 150 words, grumpily* eta: there. for pity’s sake. another 289 words, the book is past 30K, and I wrote like 3800 words today. I’m going for some ice cream, man. *grinchy face* ytd wordcount: 104,100 miles to Minas Tirith: 175.5