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I have found myself taking the mornings, or most of the day, off this weekend and only going to work after noon, or for tonight after dark. I usually do work first and then play if there’s time, but my muse has stopped trusting me to give us play time, so she’s wanting her play time up front. I guess I can’t blame her. I’ve been promising us some time off for so long that I’m beginning to sound like a liar.

I’ve promised my Muse and myself some time off when the editing on the Merry Gentry book, DIVINE MISDEMEANORS, and the Anita Blake book, FLIRT, is done. It used to bother me a lot when books crossed. Years ago I worked on one book until it was entirely done, and only then did I move onto the next. I don’t think I’ve done that in years though, and I was very impatient with not being able to write in my old linear fashion. I kept waiting for my schedule to get back to the way it was when I first started writing books. Recently I realized that was like longing for the old days when my life, my career, were entirely different than they are now.

I love that I have two best selling series. I love Anita and all the gang, and I love Merry and her crew. I love that my books are so popular that I have a chance of following both of my characters for as long as I want to play with them, and you guys keep wanting to read them. That is a wonderful thing. I love the fact that I have so many ideas that I can’t keep up with them by just writing one book a year. I love the fact that every book gives me more ideas for each series. I love the fact that I have ideas that are not Anita, or Merry, and I’m letting myself take that idea off the sticky note wall and write it, which is how you are getting a brand new novella from me in the collection, NEVER AFTER, which goes on sale like October 26th. I love that I’ve stopped putting off things, because I’ve got too much on my plate. Since I made the decision to stop putting things on hold I’ve kicked into overdrive on my page production and my ideas. It’s like everything has clicked into high gear, and though, a little tired, I’m having a hell of a good time.

In the end isn’t that what I’m supposed to be doing?