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Well, we did it, we moved me into my new office. Jonathon’s been in his new office for awhile now. But I kept putting it off. I kept waiting to be completely done with a book before we moved me over. You guys see where this is going, right? DANSE MACABRE which is on the shelves now contains a third of what I was going to fit into one book. This meant that I had tremendous amounts of notes, even some finished chapters ready to go. Which meant that this next book was ready to be written as soon as MISTRAL’S KISS, Merry 5, was out the door. In fact I have so many notes about this book, just as I did DANSE MACABRE, that it’s almost too many notes to sift through. So that meant that I finished MISTRAL’S KISS and Anita book 15 was waiting to pounce. Yeah, the muse had been waiting awhile for me to get to this book, so it wasn’t subtle. It was more like being clubbed over the head and having the muse drag me into my office and set me in front of the computer. Work, damn, you! So I worked. And that meant that my lovely new office sat empty. The last interview that just appeared in the St. Louis Post Dispatch, even remarked on how empty the room was. Not anymore. Both desks, chairs, files on the floor to be put away. My stuff moved in and mostly in place. I’m both eager to go see it, and scared. I don’t like change much. I hate to even move furniture around, so a new office is sort of scary. If you don’t understand that, then I can’t explain it to you. To me, it’s intimidating to work in a new space after six years. No, it’s not the new space. I realized yesterday it’s that the room is almost as large as the house I was raised in. It was a small house, but my new office is almost as big as the house I spent my early life in. It is the office of my dreams. And part of me is intimidated by that. Am I scared of success? I didn’t think so. But maybe I am a little afraid of success beyond a certain point. And this office is sort of a reminder of how far I’ve come. Far beyond my wildest dreams when I started out as a writer.