fan mail rocks :)

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 (as I think the issues she brought up are pretty unique to that series, and maybe just to Alisha herself; I’ll have to see, when I start writing the next character!). So that’s put me in a very fine mood for writing.

I only got 1.5 chapters rewritten yesterday, which was not enough. It was so little, in fact, that I couldn’t get to sleep until very late because I was lying there being anxious about not getting things done. Rationally, this is not necessary, but in the small hours of the night rationality disappears and it becomes impossible to think in terms of bird by bird.

Instead, yesterday, I hung out with my family (Deirdre and the little boys came over), read a book, baked some bread, baked some cookies (Mom’s kitchen is approximately the size of a silver dollar. She has about one square foot of counter space. All that baking is v. difficult in a space that size.), and got 95% of a web project that I’ve been wanting to do done. The last 5% requires CSS wrangling, because CSS does not like to do page centering, and iI haven’t yet gotten it to center and also wrap properly. If I can’t, I will just leave it uncentered, which is annoying but not critical.

It was, in other words, a very good day. The only problem is the ack ack ack on the writing front, and there’s really nothing to be done about that except to continue on, which will get everything finished in plenty of time.

And speaking of which, back to work!

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