Musings and Stuff

So, I got some physical copies of Smoked Out (and one of Snowed In, because I had updated the cover and reformatted a few things to make it prettier) in the mail yesterday...they look good! Smoked Out's cover turned out a little dark, but it's legible and - more importantly - it's here.

Squee!

Anyway, having the physical copies seems to have lit some sort of fire under my backside - Book Three has been sort of languishing, half formed, in the back of my head. I started outlining it a couple weeks ago, and every time I try to sit down and write it, the excuses start popping up.

I just need to do more research...
It's not fully formed, I'll work on it later...
Oooo! Twitter! Shiny!
I'm not in the MC's head yet...

Which are all just poppycock, of course, since the secret to getting the book done is, of course, just writing the goddamn book and editing it afterwards. I don't have a date in mind (strictly) for publishing...maybe I should. Maybe I should pants it.

Maybe I should write the goddamn outline.

Either way, having the physical copies of both books here, on the table beside me is...invigorating. I'm excited to get Book Three to the point where it joins its fellows in glorious paperback. Which means I have to write it. And outline it.

So, I'm going to go do that. And then I'm going to try and come up with some pun-tastic names for a series of pot-boiler paranormal romance mysteries - cozies, I think, I haven't quite decided - that I'm thinking of starting...more on that as it unfolds, of course.

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