PSA

In light of the recent spate of "clickbait" - obnoxious or infuriating articles that seem to exist only to drive outrage traffic to a site, I remind you of http://www.donotlink.com/ - how to share something with people WITHOUT giving them the benefit of clicks.

(if you like a site, by all means, link them directly. But for something hateful, or intentionally provoking? Here's how to share without allowing them to profit from it, or feel "popular.")

Just when you think you know someone....

Midway through the fourth pass, and something that's been in there since first draft caught me by surprise with "oh, that's how this will be relevant later." Book, c'mon, you're KILLING me.

I also yanked an entire scene out, and figure I can maybe use the character introduced there somewhere else, in a later book, maybe with a different backstory...or maybe not.  Either way, it became really apparent that it, and she, didn't belong where they were.

I also yanked a line one of my beta readers really loved.  Sorry, Dori.

(yes, my third pass beta readers were Dori and Kari.  I have been making dwarf jokes every since, because I get just that punchy in the last few weeks before deadline...)

Anyway.  Deadline or Death!  Or something like that. D-11 days.