Curmudgeon's Lair

I just passed the 50k mark on the final draft of Blood Hope. It's looking good. My editor likes what he has seen so far.

The Shadowed Princes and Kady's Vengeance are still sitting on the highest rated in dark fantasy list at Fictionwise. These things can be very ephemeral.

I hope to have Blood Hope finished by Monday and turned in for the final editorial go through.

I burned my breakfast when I lost track while working on a scene. I'm beginning to think that I'm back to the point of being able to burn water.

I'm still feeling grouchy. Sometimes it's just because I'm tired or stressed. Right now, Mr. Porky is back to leaving me death threats and threats to steal my books to punish me for imagined slights.

I have resisted writing another rebuttal because I get tired of it. He knows better than to try coming to Massachusetts to get me (he's in Illinois) because I practice cast iron fry pan diplomacy as in WHOMP!

Sales of the new book are doing well. I really have no right to complain. But I'm still feeling grouchy. I assume that what I need is more access to my English boytoy.