Book #3 and the Awful, Terrible, No-Good Week

It's nearly one a.m. and I just finished Book #3 in the Kiki Lowenstein series.

I like editing work all in one piece, so I started around 9 a.m. and kept after it until, well, now. Boy, my shoulders are killing me. I have this tendency to hunch them up as I type for long periods. When you read your own work all the way through, it's like reading any book--you pick up the discrepancies better because everything is right there, fresh in your mind.

I'd thought about going upstairs to bed. Or reading someone else's work.

But here's a little secret: I love writing. And when I'm writing I'm telling myself a story. Why read someone else's book--a work you can't change--when you can read your own in-progress-work and make the characters do what you want? And I love Kiki and her friends so much that I enjoy seeing what's happening with them. Trust me, this is a very exciting book. Characters deepen. Relationships are explored. You'll learn about the Veiled Prophet celebration here in St. Louis, a city-wide pageant that dates back to the 1860s!

A Rotten Week

So finishing Book #3 will, I hope, ensure that this week is better than last. I mean, I did NOT have a good week. I...well, I can't even type all the crummy stuff that happened because it's just too depressing. You know how you'll have this one thing and then another and it's like a train wreck and YOU're IN IT!!!

This I will share: I lost the book I had put aside for last month's Marvelous Monday gift. ARGH. So, dear poster, you know who you are, we're going to have to decide whether I buy another copy of that particular book or you'll be happy with another book in my larder.

Groan. It's got to be around here somewhere! Or is it? Is it possible that when my son came home from college last week, he borrowed it? ARGH!

And mess? My office is a total swamp. It's so bad that tomorrow will be dedicated to cleaning up. After I write a report I need to get done that's past due. And call the doctor's office to get a new order from her for lab tests. (Nothing serious.) And, well, I'm so behind on my thank you notes I feel totally ashamed. And interview questions for Alex Kava that I need to work on.

But the Good News Is...

I had two great signings over the weekend. One at the Waldenbooks Store in West County Mall where we sold out of books and another at For Keeps Sake where we did the same. Last weekend I had great fun at Daisy Lane in Mattoon--we sold a ton of books there, too.

And one of you lucky posters today--someone who comments--will get some fun trinket from my giveaway cabinet. Which I did get cleaned yesterday, and which is full of fun stuff.

Now...to bed!