Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Archive for September, 2009
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Yippee! Any Wicked Thing is predominantly finished. What does that mean, you say? It means that when I first started to write the book in May, I began each chapter with brief diary entries written by Sebastian Goddard, the Duke of Roxbury and Frederica Wells. Somewhere in the middle of the book, those diary entries disappeared. My dilemma now: do I add the missing ones, or delete the written ones? Time (and my crit partners) will tell. I’m going to step away for a short while and then revisit that remote Yorkshire castle to make sure all the loose ends are securely tied up. Then it will be back to my storm-tossed Scottish island and Master of Sin!
Sunday, September 20th, 2009
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Over 85,000 words now on Any Wicked Thing. I have two more chapters to write from scratch and three scenes to finish. The ending is tied up with a big, wet sloppy bow already—I got a little weepy writing it, because I love love love Sebastian and Freddie (mostly Sebastian, LOL).
And here’s another one of my LOLRegencies.
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Elizabeth vs Darcy: She certainly did not hate him. No; hatred had vanished long ago, and she had almost as long been ashamed of ever wishing to drink the blood of his severed head.
True love, yes?
Over 80,000 words on Any Wicked Thing! But I’m not drinking blood from severed heads to celebrate yet.
Sunday, September 6th, 2009
I celebrated by watching Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall. While my school is nothing like the gray, dismal place depicted (and as far as I know, we do not grind up kids for burgers), I do question at times the efficacy of public education. It certainly hasn’t seemed to work on a lot of adults I encounter.
So it’s back to waking up at the crack of dawn to write before work. 15,000 words to go!
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Nothing! But I did go slightly crazy when I discovered that Susan Gee Heino’s debut Regency Mistress by Mistake is coming out in December 2009 from Berkley. My debut Regency Mistress by Mistake is coming out in May 2010 from Kensington. I e-mailed Susan and she’s lovely. Her book won the 2008 Golden Heart when it was Mistaken by Moonlight (also a great title*g*). So—2 books, 2 authors, 1 title, 5 months apart. My editor says stuff happens like this all the time. She told me to breathe (sensible advice). So I hope everybody buys both books and loves them!
Isn’t this a beautiful cover? I’ll post mine when I get it.














