It's Sunday. I have coffee.
I did write a little this past week. Not much and nothing to jump up & down about, but it's words.
I sent a book off to my editor. She'll have it back to me on Dec 15th. Working with that timeline and expected workload with this book, I'm setting a tentative release date as February 12th. Could be sooner, but probably not. Could be later, but I don't anticipate by much.
Meanwhile, I have Early Grave to edit and Sleeping Ugly to edit and this Dennis Haggarty Mystery to write. There's my 2018 in a nutshell.
I spent some time trying to think of a title for DH3. In keeping with the theme of the previous two books, I have the following ideas: Malice Aforethought, Self-Inflicted Wounds, Involuntary Manslaughter, Apparent Suicide, and Malicious Intent. I know. Meh. Self-Inflicted Wounds gives me an awesome idea of where the story might go. Malicious Intent sounds the best, I think. It may be none of those. As I'm doing my genealogy, I'm paying special attention to Death Records to see if any of them give me title ideas. So far, no. Bronchial pneumonia, nephritis, or 'run over by a wagon' just don't have the right rings to them.
This week I have a sale on Dying Embers and Fertile Ground - 99c or .99p each (I remembered to add in the UK this time). They'll go on sale the 21st and be back to $2.99 on Monday the 27th. I also snagged some advertising, so we'll see how that goes.
I did some fishing, but it was unproductive. Nice mental breaks, but no fish worth mentioning.
Did some reading, but only finished one book - The Boomerang Clue by Agatha Christie. Fun book. Right now, I'm in the middle of The Wishsong of Shannara by Terry Brooks. I read this years ago, but I don't remember much of it, so it's like reading a new book.
This past week was filled with trying to tackle my to-do list, upon which are many many cleaning tasks. And as I get one done, I find another I need to do, so it's like the perpetually growing to-do list. But sooner or later, it will all get done.
This year, Hubs is mulching the leaves instead of us raking them. So at least there's not that on my list. He's about half done. I'd help, but I hate the lawn mower and the feeling is mutual.
That's about it for me today. What's up in your world? Did any of you release a book this week? :hint hint, nudge nudge: :cough:deb:cough:
Mitigating Circumstances. Aggravating Circumstances. Statute of Limitations. Unlawful Act. You know, for all the DH books to come. ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm binge watching Hallmark. What can I say. I'm halfway to my word count for today. I need to get back to it but...Christmas movies. I'm at 41,369 words, with a goal of 48K so I have room for revisions. still have a lot of story to tell so... *pulls out hair* ...we'll see. Just as soon as this movie is over. LOL
"Death Records"? Though I do like "Malicious Intent".
ReplyDeleteMulching the leaves sounds great to me. Less work, and it's good for the grass.
I'm up to page 49 on DWL. Got stuck on the last chapter, but finally found a reason why a silly thing happened, other than I wanted to give story-time to an important character, but I figured out WHY it needed to happen, and words appeared.
Um, yeah. I sorta forgot. I released Wizard's Child at the end of October. But I got so busy with DWL, I didn't announce it until a couple of days ago. Finally got it on my blog! :-D