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Well, I’ve copied and saved all of my archives from the Blogger site.  Color me sentimental, but I like to keep that sort of stuff.  I won’t take it off line until Friday, I just want to make sure I have everything ironed out before I hit the delete button.  I figured out how I can put the Nellis Project over here, but I’m going to save that until Friday as well.  (We all know that Friday is the day I get most of the networking stuff done.  The rest of the week I’m working/ caring for the toddler / WRITING NEW CONTENT.)

Which, of course, brings me to the new content announcement!  Chapter Seven of Dead Magic is well under way.  In fact, I’ve got poor Winslow fighting something he’s never even seen before, which is fun in its own right.  I did manage to write myself into a corner, however, and I’m trying to figure out how to save Mr. Winslow Agoston from losing his arm.  (No, I’m not going to spoil it and tell you, you’ll just have to wait for the book to be done.)

Speaking of spoiling things … I’m going to send the revised Deviation out to one very special, very adored Beta Reader.  I want it to be the best it can be, after all.  The greatest thing about this Beta Reader is that they don’t know it’s coming.  I plan on ambushing her for help tomorrow.

Surprise!  Usurper is on Chapter 6 now!  (Sedition, Saboteur, Usurper, just to remind everyone on the order of these books.) I wasn’t planning on keeping up with Dead Magic on this one since Usurper is … well … HUGE.  And I do mean HUGE.  It’s going to have to be two separate books.  I see that already, but for right now we’ll still just refer to it as one book because I don’t have a title for the fourth.  And, since only the Alpha Readers have seen Saboteur, I can’t tell you anything about it yet.

And for the record, I do like the WordPress outlook better.  It feels and looks nice.

The mountain of things to transfer from site to site is larger than I expected. Still, I hope to have everything converted over here — to include the Amazon page that shows an update of my blog right on it — by the end of Friday. Argh. Such a hassle. Still, this site feels a whole lot nicer than the other one, so it’ll be worth the effort.

After several weeks of trouble with my former Blogging site, I’ve decided to move over here to wordpress.  And, to be frank, I think I enjoy this setup a gazillion times more than the former website.  There’s just something more professional about it, I think.  That being said, I’ve got a lot of moving and altering and quirking to do in order to move things over and make them look right.  So!  I’ll do the update I tried to do over on the other site right now, that way you all can see that I really have been working the last three weeks.

Saboteur was sent in to the publishers earlier this week.  Because I couldn’t explain my “oh, shoot!” moment when it happened, I’ll just give a rundown here.  I sent in the query, expecting the same 6 month wait that I had last time, but got an immediate (as in two hours later) response asking me for the manuscript “at my earliest convenience”.  Which, in publisher-speak means “right frigging now”.

So I stopped everything else (poor Dead Magic keeps getting put on hold) and did a massive overhaul of the manuscript in 4 days.  Yes, people, 4 days.  (Thank you, Holly Lisle, for your “How To Revise Your Novel in 7 Days” class.)  Because this was over the weekend, the publishers didn’t mind so much.  In any case, they have the manuscript and we’ll see how it goes from there.

Speaking of Dead Magic, I’m happy to report that I’m on Chapter 7 right now.  Right on schedule.  If I keep it up at a chapter a week, the rough draft should be done in December.  The other work in progress (Usurper) is crawling along at 300-400 words a day.  I’ve done this on purpose so that I can get Dead Magic done without killing myself when school starts later this month.

Deviation … well, Deviation is like that kid I put on time out in the corner and forgot.  It’s thrown the dunce hat back at me and wants to know when I’m going to be done with it so that I can flirt with publishers in earnest about getting it … you know … published.