Quiet doesn’t mean unproductive…

Sunday night already? I kept meaning to post a blog this past week, but you know what they say about good intentions and how far they get you.  First, thanks to everyone for all your comments about the cover/stepback for THIS SIDE OF THE GRAVE. I think it’s my favorite of the bunch as well. On Monday, I turned in the first few chapters of Cat and Bones #6 (still untitled) to my editor. The object was to see if there was anything decent that could be excerpted in the back of THIS SIDE OF THE GRAVE. I am notoriously awful at beginnings and thus far have only kept one original beginning out of the seven books I’ve written. So imagine my surprise when my editor got back to me with the happy news that the chapters didn’t suck. After some chatting, we determined that chapter two would work best as an excerpt for book six.  Therefore, readers, once THIS SIDE OF THE GRAVE comes out, you will be able to flip to the back and get a teaser of what’s next in store for Cat, Bones, and the gang. 

Speaking of my difficulty writing beginnings, I wrote a blog comparing them to blind dates over at Literary Escapism, with a contest attached. Contest is running now and ends on September 9th. Go HERE to read the post and enter, if you’re interested.

Also, this week it was my turn to post over at Supernatural Underground, the blog site for HarperCollins paranormal authors no matter if you’re romance, urban fantasy, young adult, fantasy, or something in between. I chose to chat about horror movies because – no shock to long-time readers – I’m a horror movie buff and I look for any chance I get to talk about them. If you want to see some of my faves and what movie scared me into sleeping with the light on for six months, go HERE.

Furthermore, I’ve been trying to spruce things up around the ol’ online homestead, so I added some new pages onto my website. If you’re interested in audio books for my series, check out the handy-dandy Audio Books page with release date information and ordering links. Didn’t know I had deleted scenes from the books available to read? Now you can go to the Deleted Scenes page to browse through the parts that didn’t make it into the final cut of the Night Huntress series. Saw pictures of readers wearing Chapter 32, Bones, or other NH/NHW tee shirts and wished you had your own? Go to the brand new Frost Shop and see if anything strikes your fancy.

And now, it’s back to writing more of Cat & Bones #6 for me. My goal is to have it finished the first week of November, but we’ll see how it goes. Sometimes there’s just more story to be told than I realize while still at the beginning of it.

Happy Labor Day! To celebrate it, I’ll be laboring on the book :).