See above *grin*

Wait till the end of October?

Nope.

Sasha at Samhain just said a big fat…

YES

to Past Lies. (This was formerly called The Relucant Heiress)

Wooty woo hoo!

I’m not going to get to sleep again tonight, am I??

And the lottery tomorrow… Is there such a thing as the power of four 😉

So I’m mooching about the web, closing down for the night…

And *BAM*

Buying Mackenzie’s Baby is #1! My heart is racing – I’m trying to do a screen capture, cos it’s bouncing – and tell the world before I drop to #2 again.

The I get an IM from Aline. I just got a 5 heart review from The Romance Studio.

So… to the title of the blog…

The Ent has a lottery ticket for Friday.

Here’s hoping *grin*

Started writing the end of Past Lies and I realised I did need the two flashbacks that I thought I could get away with not putting in. Having them in made the story flow again.

I spent this morning, before flashbacking, looking at hotels in Rome.

The Ent suggested that we could go on holiday next year. Just the two of us, for a couple of days.

So this is the place I was looking at. Probably noisy, with a 25 line motorway out side. But I think the view more than compensates, don’t you?

I zapped Past Lies over to Samhain today. I should hear the verdict the end of October… It’s the partial. The whole thing should be finished fairly soon. Hurrah.

Which is handy, as there is a byzantine fantasy that’s calling again…

I worked out a method for writing longer stories… I’ve probably been doing it for a while, but it’s only just become conscious. I’m a gut-writer. I plan out what’s going to happen, but often have no idea how it will all tie together. That it does is often a great surprise to me, LOL

Anyway, Past Lies is storming to the end. And again I’m having trouble. So I did what I did with The Bone Magician’s Daughter. I went back and began to tie up every lose end, write in and research every point where I’d left an asterisk – usually with the words *insert sex scene here* hehe So the ms will be totally clean and I’ll have a rounded view of the motives and state of the characters in the big end moment.

Seems to be working. I have the big *cough* scene to write in (doing that today) a couple of flashbacks that tieing it all up created and then I’ll be ready to write the end.

I do the ** in the text because sometimes I’ll just lose momentum if I have to write something difficult. I learnt it from NaNoWriMo last year, I realised. Write a comment and move on.

So… Past Lies should be done with soon. I hope to sub the full thing… but looking at it now, realistically… the partial to my editor this week. (My editor -still a little *squee* moment)

She’s off on a cruise, lucky thing, and is taking stories to read.

And now I’m back to rather rude goings on, first thing on a Monday morning.

It’s such a hard life 😉

I’m whizzing through Past Lies today. Tidying up the the missed bits and making the story flow. Then I get to write the end. Which will be fun… *grin*

And the insane new reality just keeps rolling on. I’m #2!

A huge thank you to everyone who is making this possible for Buying Mackenzie’s Baby. *grin*

Buying Mackenzie’s Baby… is now #3

Why did no one on Tuesday tell me my original reality was going to be subsumed by an insane one?

So Buying Mackenzie’s Baby came out.

I was apprehensive. The hero, Mack, is not the conventional romantic lead and the heroine has a quiet strength, that doesn’t seem to be the norm either.

I was happy to make a few sales… and that Ali who had been waiting a long time for this book to come out (if you’re reading this, Hi, Favourite Stalker, LOL) liked it… which she did. *grin*

Then my editor, Sasha, emailed and said I was #5 on the Samhain bestseller list. This had never happened before… Ping. Another email. I’m #4.

I was completely gobsmacked, LOL

On the Samhain loop, Annmarie McKenna admitted that she cried. Her sinuses may have been a contributing factor, LOL, but something I wrote touched someone so deeply that they had a big emotional reaction to it. I’m misting up again. It is so very cool. LOL

I didn’t sleep… well I passed out at 4am.

Very sandy-eyed this morning. But grinning. A lot.

(Oh, and the title of the post? It’s #4, hehe)