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Catching Up

Greetings, D’Arc Siders! Time for a little update. There’s lots going on around here. First, I’d like to welcome all the newcomers to The D’Arc Side. Between the various contests I’m participating in this season, I’ve noticed a lot of new faces, so welcome!

Angie’s contest for the Kindles is going smashingly! If you haven’t seen it yet, you may want to take a look. We’re giving away 2 Kindles, loaded with Samhain books! (I’m in group 2.)

In other news, I’ve been writing up a storm and am proud to say that “Inferno” is more than half finished. This is the vampire Dante’s story, whom we first met in “Lords of the Were.” He’s come a long way since then and he’s still traveling with his half-fey friend, Duncan.

If all goes well, I should be hitting about 50,000 words in the next hour on this manuscript, so you can see, it’s moving right along. Utimately, I think it’ll wind up somewhere around 80-90,000 words or so. I’ve had this plot in mind for a long time now, but no time to write it. I picked up the gauntlet in mid-November and the ride to this point has been super smooth and fast, I’m glad to report.

My schedule last year has led me to reevaluate all the traveling I’ve been doing to conferences and such. As a result, I think I’m going to scale back a bit in 2009. Each trip takes a chunk of time out of my writing schedule with preparation, the actual traveling and then recovery time. So a weekend event could end up costing me 2 or 3 weeks worth of concentration. And then the bugs I managed to pick up at the various events lengthened my “recovery” time, adding illness onto the fun (not) that is traveling.

Chances are, I’ll be doing a few less appearances in 2009. Right now I’m planning on going to LunaCon in March, RT in April, then doing a few small signings in the NY metro area in the Spring. After that, we’ll see. Sorry to have to do this, but I’ve been overextending myself and something’s gotta give. So we’ll try it this way and see how it goes. Knowing me, I’ll probably expand the schedule to include a few smaller events as we go along, but I’ll have to play it by ear.

This is all part of my end-of-the-year reappraisal of what I’ve accomplished this year and what I want to accomplish next year. It’s been a good year all in all, but I want to do even better next year! Wish me luck!