Taking a break from Heiress, I attacked 10 pages of 7%…. and took out almost 1000 words LOL I’d info dumped all over the place. And it sagged. God, my writing’s improved over the last year!

Heiress has taken a odd turn. Well, what was vaguely implied has just jumped to the foreground and is ready to slap you about the face with a big wet fish. *grin*

Whether it will fit the target line, I don’t know. But it has to be there.

Ho hum.

Just read through this novella. Yup. Major rewrite, LOL

…now has its own link… here

And I’m not the bottom of the page any more. Yay

Printing out the contract for Nimue’s Price and tomorrow morning.. well, this morning… it will be in the post.

Posted the first extract in the Samhain Cafe Yahoo Group… hmm… now having doubts about whether I could have put up a different piece. It’s hard because Nimue’s Price is only a novella. I only have 16000 words to play with. Well less than that. Extracts are usually from the first half of the story, I think.

It is about Sex and WMDs – but it’s hard to illustrate that without giving the whole story away, LOL

Getting Nimue finished and subbed and accepted *still grinning*, has pushed me into finally finishing 7% – an extreme time travel novella. I’m almost at 13000 – and have been for a while now, LOL

It needs a bit of reworking, the ending – which will change slightly – and that’s about it.

It’s the distraction I need from writing Heiress, LOL

Just saw the date. Samwise is 22 months old today *grin*

Teebee made a sale yesterday. Abacus Dreams made her her first 80c on Lulu.

Make Teebee some more money, go download it. It is a really cool story.

Plus you learn how to play the Elephant Game. *grin*

I’ve written about 100 words on Heiress, mainly because I’ve been trying to collate intriguing excerpts to post about the web. I still haven’t chosen them all for Buying Mackenzie’s Baby yet.

It’s hard! LOL
Erm… not that they’re aren’t intriguing… They are. Mack’s Alpha all the way. And the sex…
All right. I’ll shut up now.

Anyway, on a good note, a friend got a revision request not a rejection *grin* She is so close to selling. Fingers crossed for you, AF.

And I’m going to be in an e-cookbook.

I know. You’re thinking. Kim… Cooking?? Someone’s let her near food?
But a huge, massive and heartfelt thank you to Jennie Andrus for sorting out my recipe, LOL She’s single handedly putting the thing together. By Friday!
Her non-cook book, Dragon’s Birth, is out on 28 February… here

Buy it

The Ent got me two presents today *grin*

The first – The new Pride and Prejudice film… mainly so I can rant about how he is so not Mr Darcy, LOL

The second – I found out about when I came down stairs this morning to get Samwise his bottle of milk.

The Ent, caught in the doorway to the kitchen with matches, candles and a birthday cake.

There has been much bemoaning in the Shire about how I didn’t get a birthday cake because The Ent was too busy arranging to get Grandma Saruman’s piano.

So now I have one. Cool.

Off to sort out dull tax stuff.

Then I might trawl for images for Merlin. Hard job. But someone has to do it.

But first. Tax

The people at Samhain… they say YES

Samhain Publishing have offered me a contract for Nimue’s Price – which may need a new title, LOL.

Still bouncing… and while doing that trying to think of an image for the art cover form… which is difficult to do when your bouncing, as you can imagine.

Now I just need Orbit to say:
See the rest of Exploding… nah. We’ll buy it now. How many zeroes would you like on your cheque?