I just got big fat juicy fan mail for THE CARDINAL RULE from someone who had ordered it from the eHarlequin site, where it’s available a month early. It was *splendid* fan mail which told me that she’d reacted exactly how I hoped readers would by the end of the book, and so I’m extremely smug and pleased and full of giggles. AHAHAH *laugh* She also had some critiques, which were interesting to read and which I’ll keep in the back of my mind as I write more Strongbox Chronicles…
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not my fault!
For any Irish readers… It’s not my fault! It’s not! It’s NOT! But if I had a working power cord for my camera, I’d post a picture of the snow outside my window this morning. :)
and work
I’ve blown through 10 chapters in the last 2 days. I have 9 more to go. I’ve added about 20 pages so far, and I’ll be doing at *least* one more pass (honestly, 2 or 3 or 4 is probably much more likely) after I’m done with this one. But it’s going well and I’m getting a lot done, which pleases me intensely. My brain is getting tired, but I ended up taking a break for most of the afternoon, since the little boys were about, and that was probably…
whotta day!
We’ve had a most excellent day here. We weren’t planning on having a Thanksgiving dinner sort of thing today, at least, because Gavin and Deirdre both had to work, and Mom and Dad thought they were going out to Blackrock to babysit the little boys. Instead, Deirdre called to say she wanted to come into town to do errands and she wanted to know if it would be ok to just bring the boys in, so we unexpectedly all ended up here. Mom thought a bit and sent Dad and…
catching up posts
(written 11/23/05) Argh. Writing is hard. Let’s go shopping. Here I am, blithely rewriting, cutting scenes and rewriting them, sometimes fairly significantly. And I whacked the end of this one scene all up, because the relationship has changed, and then I went charging along, rewrite revise cut change whack whack whack OH CRAP DROPPED AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF INFORMATION WITH THAT SCENE CUT NEED TO ADD ALL THIS STUFF BACK IN SOMEWHERE *NEW* ACK ACK MORE REWRITING ADDING REVISING ARGH! And the chapter is seventeen pages long and I haven’t…