Friday, May 1, 2026

Endings and Beginnings

 I am literally on the last page of the rewrite of the rewrite of DANGER LOOMS.  As usual, I have all kinds of emotions.  There's relief that I actually finished it.  And then a loose ends feeling since, it's been my main focus for quite a while.  It took precedence and everything else got pushed to the back burner.

Now I have to deal with all of that which includes a lot of chores I chose to ignore.  SCONED TO DEATH  comes out in a little over a month and I have a guest blog, an author takeover and a blog tour coming up that should help get the word out.  But I have to write all those blog and author posts.  They have to be different and interesting which is quite a challenge.

Dancing around the edge of my mind is the next Crochet and Crumpet book.  The deadline that seemed so far in the future keeps getting closer. I need to start focusing on it.  

What's hard about all of this is that, at least for me, I can't grit my teeth. knuckle down, or spend hours at my computer (which thankfully keeps working) to make it happen.  If I do that, it never turns out.  I have to let it happen.  Let ideas slip into my thoughts until they take off.  That's not to say that I won't push my thoughts toward a plot, who dies, who did it, etc, but after that, something has to happen to make it all come alive.

In the meantime, Jakey told me I should make a character based on him in a future book because, as he put it, he's interesting.  

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