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I’m still working at the first of two scenes I need to finish for Bullet. I’ve done seven pages, but it’s still just set up. I’m now at the meat of the [...]

I usually do this Little Lost Lamb thing when a book is done. I wander from room to room at a loss. I don’t know what to do with myself. I wander into Jon’s office and [...]

Woke up this morning with a mash-up of songs in my head. Pink’s “Sober” & Godsmack’s “Serenity”. Surprisingly good mix. Pink’s album [...]

I did not finish Bullet last night. I made the executive decision that I, my husband, Jonathon, and my friend and assistant, Carri, could not all go on three hours or less sleep [...]

Finished work at 2AM went to sleep at 3AM. Alarm sounded at 6AM. Getting up after only three hours of sleep was brutal. What was worse was the fact that the current book I’m [...]

Sometimes I’m too hard on myself and that makes my character Anita Blake too hard on herself. Merry Gentry cuts herself more slack than either of us. I’m not sure why, [...]

Flirt, the newest Anita Blake novel, is out today! Thanks to everyone that have already told me they’ve gotten it, and are reading as I type this, or even have already [...]

I did an amazing, even by my standards, 27 pages today. Oddly, I did the same number last Sunday, but in two writing sessions instead of the one massive one I did today. [...]

One of the things I like best about fiction is being able to rewrite. It allows you to fix all your mistakes with a clear-eyed 20/20 vision that real life rarely gives you. But [...]

We had a funeral yesterday. Great-Grandma Helen was nearly a hundred so her death was not unexpected, but in the end that doesn’t take away the grief, it only changes it. [...]