I fucking love today. I don’t know why, exactly. Part of it’s because Close to Home is out, and that’s fun. Also, it’s fall. I fucking love fall, y’all. I love the wind and the chill and the leaves on the ground. I love raking leaves, I love the grass getting just slightly greener because the sun doesn’t burn up all the soil within five seconds of the sprinklers shutting off.
I love writing in the fall. I live in California, and folks with more extreme weather patterns mock us for our lack of drama, but fall is dramatic everywhere. (So is spring, naturally, for my friends in the Southern Hemisphere!) The first novel I ever revised, I revised in fall. I was fourteen, and I had no idea that I was supposed to hate revisions, so I fucking loved every second of it. I only knew that unlike drawing, in words I could make the page look like the story in my head.
I’m telling you, man, this is the greatest gig ever.
Close to Home is out! So is Camera Three, the third installment in Little Red and the Big Bad! Home for the Holidays is out next week, and The New Born Year the week after that. WHEEEEEEE! Get on board, because this is gonna be a hell of a month!
Happy RD to you 🙂 I downloaded (and devoured!) the first 3 Little Red and the Big Bad yesterday – and Close to Home will be on my kindle by the end of the week (okay, probably within the next half hour). Am enjoying November already 🙂
Hi, VC! I'm glad you like Red and Bad! I could not get those guys out of my head, man. (You'll note they appeared nowhere in my plans for this fall.) I hope you dig Close to Home!
I can't decide if I'm happy with your release schedule or not. I LOVE getting the new books (finished Close to home on Wednesday), but I have absolutely no willpower to ration them (finished Close to Home on Wednesday) and having three releases in three weeks is just making me greedy for MORE! (Good thing I'm a re-reader!)
Nadine! Ah ha ha ha. I read just like you do. And I've been known to re-read immediately after finishing either a book or a series (the Vorkosigan books by Lois McMaster Bujold come to mind; I'm pretty sure I cycled through the entire saga like six times during my pregnancy because I just didn't want to read anything else on earth).
I can't decide I should say "I'm sorry" or "you're welcome"! Maybe both….
I had to laugh this evening, watching a Masterchef episode where the contestants had to cook for the critics. And who should one of those critics be, but Charles Campion. I'd like to think he and Big Bad have *nothing* in common but the name…
I knew that name was too good to be true! (I was damn proud. I loathe coming up with names! Screw that up and you’re stuck for ages!)
“Um, excuse me, did you say your name was…Charles Campion? Um. I will do my very best, sir, I swear!”