Intermission

Yeah, I know. I haven't been writing enough. (Though I bet none of you checked Writecrastination, did you?) I've been... busy. If you can call nauseous, hand-wringing impatience busy. I submitted my query to my "first-choice" agent on Thursday. According to his blog, he is currently reading submissions from the last week of June, so he has about 10 days' worth of submissions before he gets to mine. If he wanted to save himself a whole bunch of time, he'd just toss all those in the recycling bin and get to mine. Because, you know, I'm going to make the guy rich.

Other things that have been going on, and which may or may not become future blogs, once the hand-wringing is done...

Darwin tore off all of his back toenails on the July 4 weekend, launching from the concrete patio into the pool. Only two of them bled, thankfully. Didn't even slow him down.


I was attacked by a defective, homicidal toilet seat on Saturday and have a bruise on my forehead. Tom replaced the evil potty-seat this morning, so should I feel the need to barf in the future, I can do so safe from the threat of head injuries.

My little sister had a heart-related incident and ended up in the hospital having a heart catheterization. Luckily, it showed no arterial blockage, and the incident was due to angina/spasms. Still, it's got me starting the process of convincing my brain that I need to quit smoking.

At work today, the clinic cats got into a "discussion" on my desk and dumped a whole bottle of green tea into my laptop. I picked it up, tea poured out the side. Frantic opening and air-drying ensued. Then I decided the canned air was an excellent deterrant when it comes to keeping the little bastards off my desk. I am Armed and Annoying. (No cats were harmed in the writing of this blog. Yet.)

I've been obsessively proofing and editing Make or Break. I have it down from 117,000 words to 114,000 and have distributed a few reading copies. I'm also opening a small portion of my brain to start inventing the characters for my next book. Because there is going to be a next book.

For your reading enjoyment, since I suck and never write to you anymore, I recommend the following blogs. A couple of them are in my links in the right sidebar, but for ease of clickability, I'm listing them here:

Heretic Spire, A Damn Lie!
is it 5 o'clock yet?
I Will Dare
will work for shoes
Notes to self
While Walking Duncan (of course!)
Recovering Californian (author Melissa Lion)
Sir Pinky's Eye On Everything (frequent Fermented Fur visitor and commenter)
All THREE Bloggess blogs:
The Bloggess
Ask the Bloggess on PRN
The Bloggess's Sex Blog on SexIs
(That last one is a link to her most recent post there. To find the others, you have to go down the right margin.)
Mark Henry (Urban Fantasy Author and all-around hilarious guy)
Zombie Chow (Mark's humor journal. Excellent zombie pictures!)

OK, that should keep you busy for a while! I promise to write when I have something entertaining (or exciting) to report!