Well, it's been a busy October. There should be a new column posted on these pages in the next couple of days, but until then, I figured I'd let everyone know what's been going on.
Thanks to the infusion of a most wonderful muse into my social life, I was inspired to start (and finish the first draft) of a novel. At 71,000 words, it's not the longest thing I've ever written (I have an unfinished novel that's at 136,000 words right now), but this one does have a beginning, a middle, and an end, which is more than I can say for any other novel I've ever tried to write. So, yay, me!
"Cinnamon Staite and the Lords of the Air" is a YA novel that I'm plugging as one part Nancy Drew, one part Kim Possible, one part MacGuyver, and two parts Tom Swift. That's FIVE PARTS! Practically a pie! Heh.
Readers are reading that first draft right now, and hopefully I'll be sending off query letters, proposals, and manuscripts before very long. I'm crossing the proverbial fingers that I will be a published novelist within a year. Con suerte. Once the novel is in a more finished form, there will be a Facebook page for it ("Cinnamon Staite and the Lords of the Air"), so I encourage readers of this blog to fan up.
Other than that, I've been enjoying the lovely fall weather in Southern Missouri (okay, okay, there have been a couple of VERY nice days, and then a bunch of cold, rainy ones -- great for writing, not so great for wandering around looking at the fall colors). I still haven't gone to a corn maze or a haunted house yet this Halloween season, but I intend to before October is gone.
Also, Casa Ceresa (my long-suffering home) is not having a Halloween party this year. Drama avoidance after last year's mostly-good-but-with-some-very-bad-ickiness party-o-rama. Instead, I'll be Mad Hatting up and hitting some other festivities around Springfield. If you're in the area, be on the look-out for me and Petey the Wunder Chicken (who will be dressed as General Chicken, this party season).
That's about that for now. An actual column is on the way. Pinky swear!
