I hope this quick missive finds everyone well as we face these waning days of August. I’ve not blogged for a bit as I’ve been squeezing the last few free moments of summer out of the month both before school starts and the kiddies are tied up with that, and before my editor returns from vacation. (Eeks!) Either way, only change is constant, and we’re now entering my absolute favorite time of year.
Obviously I love fall because in Vegas it follows on the scorching heels of summer. It’s a balm, a cool compress, and to my mind October is the most beautiful month of the year. Those who’ve known me a long while also know that my personal new year begins in September. I clean house both mentally and physically, get rid of ideas, relationships, and items that are broken and no longer serve me, and focus on the new, shiny, and exciting. This year that means a new series with Harper, as well as a few great turns in my personal life.
I wanted to allow the summer for the dust to clear on my Zodiac series, for people to get a chance to read, digest and question me about it, and I recently had a lively (ie. chaotic) chat with readers in my forum, which I think made us all feel we’d come full circle on that. Thus, I’ll begin talking more about the new Celestial Blues series in the upcoming weeks and months – what it’s about, what drove me to write it, writing and research processes – and very soon I’ll have cover copy and art for the first book, THE TAKEN. I’m already working on the second book in the trilogy (aren’t the lead times in publishing mind-boggling?) so I’m now fully immersed in that world, and itching to share it with all of you.
For now, I hope you’re all well. I’m going to leave you with a photo of me and one of my “kids.” This is the child *koff* of longtime and dear friends of mine – I’ve known him since he was seven years old, which not only makes his twenty-three years seem impossible, but he really is … well, big now. (Mind, I’m almost six feet tall and only come up to his armpit so that gives you some scale.) The reason I mention it is because no matter what you’re going through this summer, or what you anticipate come fall, the seasons … man, they do come and go with alarming speed. This too, as always, shall pass. So make the most of it. I’ll endeavor to do the same.
