A Taste for Something New

Jan 30 , 2009
For some reason I’ve been listening to harder and harder music.  It started at the end of SKIN TRADE, but it hasn’t stopped.  I haven’t gone back to my [...]
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More about the weekend

Jan 29 , 2009
More about the weekend:  I’d met Jennie Breeden at a couple of conventions. Yes, of Devil’s Panties fame.  We’d gotten to talk just enough to know [...]
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The Weekend was Wonderful

Jan 27 , 2009
It was a good weekend.  Jonathon and I both feel more relaxed, renewed, even.  It was a very social weekend, which isn’t always restful, but this one was.  [...]
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Skin Trade

Jan 23 , 2009
SKIN TRADE is safely in my editor and copy editor’s hands.  Normally, even after a book goes off I still make notes on other projects.  I’m always doing [...]
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Beyond Midnight

Jan 22 , 2009
Done.  My hands are cramping from typing.  But, I’m done.  It’s done.  I’m going to bed now.  [...]
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Another Midnight

Jan 21 , 2009
Not done, not done, not done. F***ck! Over nine hundred pages and not done. I’ve sent over eight hundred pages to New York, to my editor. It should keep the copy editor busy [...]
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Time to get out the Hard Stuff

Jan 19 , 2009
Tired of sugar-free candy.  Tired of sugar-free jelly beans.  Tired of sugar-free gum.  Just plain tired.  Finished off another pot of tea; don’t want [...]
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Closer to the Finish

Jan 18 , 2009
Over 700 pages done as of today.  Next scene will need more major rewriting so tomorrow maybe a little slower, but I have hopes.  Found myself nodding off at the [...]
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Late night, or is that Early Morning?

Jan 18 , 2009
Over six hundred pages rewritten.  Changes here will necessitate new end.  Oh, well.  NINE INCH NAILS is blasting on the player, song: "With Teeth."  [...]
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Leverage

Jan 17 , 2009
Didn’t go into work until after lunch.  It’s like my muse doesn’t believe me anymore when I tell her that we’ll get to rest, or have fun.  [...]
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