That\u2019s what this week has been like\u2014falling off the edge of a cliff.<\/p>\n
I was determined to finish the next Joanna Brady book, By Reason of Insanity<\/em>, before it was time for the next Beau book, Den of Iniquity<\/em>, to hit the shelves. I worked on it seven or eight hours a day for weeks, day in and day out. I finished the rough draft at about 8:30 PM on Monday, September 2. The first interview for DOI was on Tuesday, September 3.<\/p>\n Wait, wasn\u2019t September 2 a holiday, like Labor Day or something? It may have been for everyone else, but I was too busy laboring to notice. Right now I\u2019m holding my breath and waiting hear from my beta readers on BROI. Once I have their input, I\u2019ll install their suggestions before sending the manuscript to New York.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve now done three Den of Iniquity<\/em> interviews. Do you have any idea how hard it is to talk about one book, when the characters from another book are still rattling around in your head? Fortunately, the interviewers had all actually READ the book (unusual, by the way!) and the on-point questions they asked, helped me get back into the world of J.P. et al. Unfortunately the copyedited manuscript for Overkill is due any day, and then I\u2019ll be back with Ali Reynolds.<\/p>\n My daughter claims I\u2019m calendar-challenged, and that\u2019s true under the best of circumstances. Yesterday was not the best of circumstances. I wasn\u2019t feeling well\u2014a bad head cold. (Today’s interviews were conducted in what my friend Janis Ian calls my \u201ckey of R\u201d with me sounding as raspy as if I were a life-time smoker which I’m NOT!) But back to the calendar issue, when Bill asked me yesterday if America\u2019s Got Talent was on last night, I assured him it wasn\u2019t because AGT is on Tuesdays. In my messed-up world it was definitely still Monday.<\/p>\n So I\u2019m not actively writing right now\u2014not writing a book, I mean\u2014and that\u2019s weird. As a consequence, I decided to go out on the back porch and take a nap in the recliner out there. When I woke up two hours later, I pushed the recline button back instead of forward and broke a kitchen window behind me. (FYI, when a double-pane window breaks it sounds a whole lot like a gunshot.) For several minutes, we had no idea what had just happened. It took a while to locate the broken window. The Glass Doctors will be here shortly. <\/p>\n And now that I\u2019ve written that, I think I\u2019m going to go back out and give the recliner another try. I believe I\u2019ve actually earned another nap, and the recliner has been moved out of reach of any windows.<\/p>\n Last week\u2019s blog was extra long. This one is short but brief. I guess is all evens out in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That\u2019s what this week has been like\u2014falling off the edge of a cliff. 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