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Hot off the press isn’t just a saying for us today. We are printing off the final draft, for now, of BLOOD NOIR, and the pages are literally hot as I lift them from the printer. Page count is 538. I’m hoping that the next Merry book, SWALLOWING DARKNESS, will be about the same, give or take.
Jon’s uber-printer in his office had an issue, and we had to reprint everything from about page 100 on my smaller printer in my office. But it all worked. It’s one of the reasons we have multiple printers. Redundancy isn’t really redundant when you need that extra machine.
I have actually gotten through my music list from Audioslave to Nickelback, and all the alphabet in between. That doesn’t count the morning work done to Marilyn Manson. But that was finally too harsh for me. Marilyn Manson, like Nine Inch Nails, is late night fair for me. Tomorrow if I work in the morning, I’ll start with Nickelback because I’ll never get through all their albums tonight, because I’m done. The rewrite is done!
Though, honestly, Merry isn’t a Nickelback kind of girl, that’s more Anita. I have no bloody idea what I’ll listen to tomorrow. Oh, wait, the musical for SWALLOWING DARKNESS is “Beauty and the Beast,”, now I remember. So, I’ll probably start with that, because I’ll be tired enough that I’ll need to ease myself into it.
But tonight, we’re done. We are so done. If we were less tired we’d celebrate, but honestly you have to recover a little when you’ve been working this intensely before you can enjoy the celebration. I’ve learned to give myself a couple of days to let the shock wear off, before I try and enjoy it all. Otherwise, I’m too wasted to do a good job of the whole celebrating thing. So a couple of days to recover, then we’ll party. Tonight, it’s just get it in Fed-Ex, find something for dinner, find some television, or DVD, that is Trinity safe, then sleep. Sleep sounds really good.