wow. holy crap.

I’m about 10K from the last book in the Walker Papers series. Holy *crap*.

not dead.

Not dead. Just writing as fast as I can. Not much left to brain with. Will resurface eventually.

process stuff

So Monday I got started on MOUNTAIN ECHOES, book 8 of the Walker Papers. “Got started” means I re-read the first 3 chapters and the synopsis, and while the chapters were fine, I thought, “Wow, this synopsis *really* sucks. *Really* sucks. There are major problems with it.” And then I started to write. And something happened far earlier in the writing than it happened in the synopsis, and I thought, “That’s probably not a bad thing, because the synopsis is so awful,” and by that time I was starting to…

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aghlghbbl.

It is five hours to the book launch/signing. I have baked lemon cupcakes, brownie cupcakes, and about fourteen dozen cookies, with more to go. Next time I get the bright idea to make up 4 batches of cookie dough to refrigerate & bake the next day, I need to remember to roll the dough into tubes before I put it in the fridge. That would’ve saved me a whoooooooole lot of aggravation. I posted on Twitter to say I was down to the last 3 eggs, which I assumed meant…

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Guest Blogger: Gabra Zackman!

Over the years I’ve had lots and lots of people tell me how much they love Gabra Zackman, the reader for most of the Walker Papers audio books. Gabra emailed me around a year ago and we’ve chatted back and forth in email (and in Skype, recently! SO COOL!) a bit, and I thought, hey! I should ask if she’d do a guest blog sometime! So I did, and she said yes! And so in honor of the audio version of RAVEN CALLS being released today, I’m posting the blog…

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