Monday, fast-forward

Get up at 6. Feed furry sharks felines. Go back to bed until 7. Get up, answer e-mails, make breakfast. Think longingly of coffee, settle for really strong black tea. Word war to the tune of 2,200 new words. Take shower. Feel tired, heed inner NP and take a 45 minute nap. Wake up, make lunch. Deal with more e-mail and website mischegas. Consider rest of to-do list. Flip a coin to see which to tackle first. Kill freelance dead. Remember it's Monday and I have to pick a contest winner and set up the new contest. Decide that can wait until after dinner (sorry, guys). Flip coin to see what project comes next. Shove cat off manuscript, go back to work. Pause to brush puma (anyone want a kitten-sized bag of clean, fluffy golden-red fur?). Make more ice tea (I drank how much today?). Go back to work.

I'd consider myself officially back-at-work, yeah. Despite the remnant coughing and exhaustion.

Also, any NYC-area folk who want to go to a wine tasting this Saturday, drop me a line!

Contests, We Have One More Contest!

First off: congratulations to cypherindigo, the winner of last Monday's contest*! Everyone else who entered is now entered as well to win a copy of BLOOD FROM STONE.

And now, in the final run-up to Friday's official release date** of BLOOD FROM STONE, we have one last contest...

Tell me who is your favorite secondary character in the series.

That's it. That's all. Excepting Wren, Sergei and PB... who is your favorite?

If you give me a name, you're entered once to win.
If you give me a name and a reason, you get entered twice.

(yes, if you entered the previous contest you can enter again and double [or triple] your chances to win!)




*random winners are chosen by the oh so scientific method of randomly assigning numbers to each entry and then using random.org to pick a winner.
** yeah, I know it's already shipping. Shhhh.....