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Book Expo Canada was amazing. We didn’t put it up on the blog earlier because it wasn’t open to the public. Since you guys couldn’t get in, it seemed wrong to tell you about it. They ran out of my books, so some of the book professionals at the event didn’t get there in time for a book themselves. On one hand, cool, that they ran out of BLOOD NOIR. On the other hand, boo, that they ran out of BLOOD NOIR. People were so patient and had been waiting in line so long that my publisher let me start early. Thanks for the t-shirts to the women in front of the line. Very cool.

The flight home was as bumpy as the flight out. Why are there so many clouds between here and Canada? But we’re home safe, and it’s all good. But though the trip was great, and went amazingly well, we’re pretty beat. I just put SWALLOWING DARKNESS up on the computer screen, and tried to edit it to read tomorrow. Read tomorrow, you say, yeah, the Wolf Howl. Had you forgotten about it, too? I’d planned on reading from DARKNESS, but there’s a problem with that.

There is a plot point in the beginning that I took out as the book progressed, but it’s a complicated plot thread, and is going to be difficult to extract and bridge the early chapters without it. I’m thinking at least two, maybe four days of work, to take it out, and smooth it all back together. The Wolf Howl is tomorrow night, unless I have a time machine I’m out of daylight to fix this book in time to read it to you all. So what to do? I do have a solution, strangely, or maybe not so strangely.

Solution, is that I have the beginning of the next Anita book finished. It’s cleaner, and there are no early plot threads that need taken out. Someone here asked if it was a spoiler since not everyone has had time to read BLOOD NOIR, at least not by tomorrow. But I’ve looked over the beginning and it isn’t a spoiler, except for one brief scene that references some events in BLOOD NOIR, it’s spoiler free. Though it does reference stuff from INCUBUS DREAMS, but still I’m assuming that anyone wanting to come to the Wolf Howl will have read that book by now.

Anyway, what do you guys think? You be happy with me reading from Anita #17, since I’ve still got to rewrite SWALLOWING DARKNESS? I guess, happy or not, that’s what I’m reading. So sorry for all the Merry fans. I do promise that when the beginning of it gets rewritten, at some point before the book comes out, we will put up a video of me reading the first sixty or so pages. So, you will get a peek early, but just not as early. And this is probably the earliest peek you’ve ever gotten at an Anita book. Though, if we do tape it, we may wait to put it up.

Remember though we have S. J. Tucker singing at the Howl. So, wolves, pagan/Celtic rock, a Q & A, and me reading from Anita #17; what could be better?