(Quick! Someone send the St Bernard with the barrel of alcohol tied to his collar!)

Hello Journal! Long time no see, again. Sorry it's been a quiet summer - I'm trying to dig out from a lot of self-imposed deadlines (and some not-so-self-imposed). I've spent every waking moment since Mid-July working on a spec project. You haven't heard of it. It's not contracted. But it was eating at my brain (much like a flesh-eating virus would) and I really wanted to get it done while I had some downtime.

(Cue laughter at the thought of 'downtime')

I did finish it, though! And then I got handed my copyedit for book three of the Succubus Diaries. Normally my copyedits are clean and pretty, and all I have to do is just write STET and go along my merry way. Not this time. Clearly my brain was half-dead when I turned in this manuscript, and I thank the lord that the copyeditor has such a good eye. I cannot keep eye-color straight, or clothing, and there were several plotlines that I dropped and never recovered throughout the book that I had to fix.

What have I learned from this? No more magical objects that characters can wear. Ever. EVER.

So now that that's over and I can breathe a sigh of relief, I'm back to my spec project, reading for draft two. I thought the book was totally crap, but it actually turned out really well and I'm happy with it. So yay! In a few weeks I hope to have it polished up and off to my agent, and then I'll probably be back to work on the next book in my series.

A few people have been asking me about the MIDNIGHT LIASONS book that is scheduled to come out next year. The only information on that is that I don't have any information! The title is changing, the date it is coming out is up in the air, and I don't even have edits on it yet. It's still on the schedule, though. As soon as I have more details, I will share them here, I promise.