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Hey guys,

Jon and I have already gone over some questions on the Brilliance Audio script for THE HARLEQUIN.  It’s the abbreviated script, so there are always things to reconcile.  We’ve been up fighting the evils of publishing since dawn.

Why has this been the first blog in about a week?  We were on vacation.

We’d planned on going East coast for the spring break vacation, then weather reports said winter storms were hitting our vacation spot.  That didn’t sound like any fun at all so we did a last minute change.  The change required us to move our vacation up by a week.  We went from have a week to get ready to about forty-eight hours.  Eeek.

We decided to go some place warm and mild in climate.  Where on such short notice?  Florida.

To be precise; Walt Disney World.

Our kiddo is still young enough that she things it’s a great idea, and I’m treasuring these high cute content years while I have them.  My friends with older kids tell me dire stories of pale people in black writing death poetry.  That doesn’t upset me as much as it might since Jon and I are still fairly likely to be wearing black and have our own morose streak.  I think Trinity will have to pick something else for her rebellion since we’re still happily doing the perky goth thing.

Strangely, I was never goth when I was a teen, and emo wasn’t a word yet.  I didn’t do goth until my late twenties or early thirties.  I finally got in touch with my inner darkness, and I just stayed there. 

We actually went to Disney World in August of last year with some close friends, Joanie and Jim, and their little girl, Melissa.  (A little girl who is now taller than I am. Sigh) 

In fact the August trip was a promise kept.  Years ago I told Joanie—"If I every make number one on the New York Times List.  We’ll all go to Disney World to celebrate."  Joanie and I had a good laugh because in those days there was no danger of me making the list, and number one was just a dream. 

Then MICAH hit number one on not only the New York Times list, but on USA Today list, Publisher’s Weekly list, and Nielsen’s Bookscan, all in the same week.  I called up Joanie, we did that screaming, really, yes, really.  The next day she called me back and reminded what I had said all those years ago.  I had forgotten, but I remembered.  A deal is a deal, our families were off to Disney World to celebrate me making number one.

I keep thinking of that Disney Advertising campaign where they had all those athletes say on camera, "Now that you’ve won a gold medal what are you going to do?"  "I’m going to DisneyLand!"

The athletes were paid for their endorsement.  I just flat love Disney World.  So does Jon, and so does our kiddo. 

I have to say it here; I can’t resist.

"Laurell K. Hamilton, now that you’ve hit number one on the New York Times List, what are you going to do?"

"I’m going to Walt Disney World!"

And I did.