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Update

If any of you have been following my progress bar (at the right of this blog in the sidebar), you might notice it hasn’t moved much since Friday. *sigh* I took a long weekend and found myself goofing off badly. I actually picked up two paperbacks this weekend – a big deal since I don’t buy many paperbacks anymore. I spent yesterday reading Nalini Singh’s BRANDED BY FIRE. I absolutely love her psy-changling series and she is super nice. I really expected her to win the RITA for best paranormal this year and am astounded she didn’t. My sympathies to Nalini. If I were voting, she’d have been a shoo-in. LOL

On Saturday, I read Christine Feehan’s HIDDEN CURRENTS. Loved that too! I adore her Drake Sisters series as well as her Carpathians. They were the first paranormals I ever read in ebook form. I had this old Palm Pilot they gave me at work and I searched around in the Palm store and found these vampire books. I had no idea who she was at the time – this was more than a decade ago – but those ebook versions of DARK GOLD, DARK PRINCE and DARK…whatever (I get the names all mixed up ’cause they’re so similar) turned me in an ebook believer!

But I digress… my book, ONCE BITTEN, TWICE DEAD, is coming along. I had a really good week last week, adding over 17,000 words to the manuscript. I’m at a crucial point in the action, which I guess is why I stalled a little. I need to think through how the next series of events is going to work. My mind works in the background while I do other things – sorta like a computer doing updates while allowing you to continue doing other stuff (LOL). I’ve been sorting through how the events are going to go down and I think by later tonight I should be ready to write it all down.

I know where it’s going and how it will end up. It’s the convoluted path to get to that point that’s up for debate. Right now I left my heroine hanging as a prisoner of a mad scientist. *evil grin* The zombies are getting stronger and the hero is super pissed off. Never get in the way of an angry alpha male warrior. I foresee he’s about to kick some ass. Big time.

I’m aiming to finish the first draft of this manuscript by early August, if possible. Then I’ll have a few weeks to self-edit before I send it in. Wish me luck!