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What I’ve Been Up To Lately

I have been very remiss about blogging lately. I’m sorry. At least I set up funny kitty pics to post automatically every Friday for the next few months. That’s something, at least.

As far as what I’ve been up to… I finished writing A DARKER SHADE OF DEAD on March 15th and handed it in to my editor at Kensington. Since then, I’ve been working on ideas for the next and possibly final installment in the zombie series from Kensington Brava. I’ve also been working on edits for my next ebook release, WARRIOR’S HEART from Samhain Publishing and proofing the galley of DRAGON STORM, which I believe is coming out in September in print.

Lots going on. Plus, I spent last weekend at LunaCon in Rye, NY. It was awesome to hang out with so many great authors, including my friends Stella Price, Kayleigh Jamison and Michele Lang. Those ladies are so much fun!!!

I’ve also become addicted to the game Farmville on facebook. Oh boy. I resisted playing anything on facebook for SO long. And now, in about a week, I’ve become completely addicted. Of course, I know how I am with these things. I’ll probably play until I’ve mastered everything (or become completely bored with it) and then ease off. I have sort of a short attention span once I’ve learned how something works. But I enjoy building my farm and decorating it.

Right now, I have a section on the left hand side of the grid that I’m calling “Mom’s House.” She loved lavender and Provence. She was born in the Netherlands, but our ancestry comes from England, Belgium and France, among other places. French was her second language after Dutch. English was probably her fourth or fifth language. Maybe sixth. She was a very intelligent woman who had traveled the world by her teens. So when I saw the French house “La Maison” and the barn and shed to match, I liked it immediately. I’m decorating it sort of the way my Mom had set up her dream house.

She was lucky enough to have bought her dream house in the Amish country of Pennsylvania a few years ago and we spent a lot of time creating a gorgeous garden there, together. I’d promised her a fountain, which we never got around to installing, but I’ve got a nice virtual fountain in “her” garden in Farmville now. LOL. I suppose this is sort of therapeutic. I always liked doing things for her. This way, I still can, if only in my mind. It’s weird, I know, but I like it. For now. I also put the so-called Dutch Windmill behind “her” barn. It’s not exactly the style I consider a Dutch windmill. This one looks more Spanish in style to me, but from time to time the blades rotate and it’s kind of pretty. Now I need some more tulips – though Mom wasn’t too keen on them because they wilt so fast when cut. LOL.

So that’s what I’ve been up to. Wasting time on facebook and missing Mom. Editing and proofing. Thinking about my next book. I should be writing, but I haven’t found the motivation to get started just yet. I usually take a week or two off after I finish a project, so this isn’t completely abnormal. I’ll try to blog more often. Really, I will!