Writer's Grove

Still Life with Fantasy and Fruit #13

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these: I haven’t been able to, quite frankly, bein’ so busy with trips here and there and finishing up TRICKED. If you didn’t hear it elsewhere, I’ve just delivered TRICKED to my editor and made a start on TRAPPED. There’s a new progress bar thingie on the sidebar and everything! Look!

TRICKED isn’t completely finished, of course; my editor and I will be working on it for a while, and after that the copy editor will take a hack at it and so on. But we’re on schedule for that April 2012 release, and I’ll keep you posted on developments like the cover and all that good stuff as it comes in. :)

I’ll be back to teaching again next week, so my summer’s pretty much over. My back-to-school meetings begin on Friday, so that means I have today and tomorrow to get all my summer reading in! Think I can do it? Here’s what I’m going to tackle:

These authors are all auto-buys for me. If they wrote “Get more beer” on a bar napkin, I would buy it. And then I’d probably follow the instructions on the napkin. L-R, we have Jim Butcher’s GHOST STORY, Kelly Meding’s ANOTHER KIND OF DEAD, Nicole Peeler’s EYE OF THE TEMPEST, and George R.R. Martin’s A DANCE WITH DRAGONS. Like many of the rest of you, I have been waiting for these for quite some time. Hope you’re enjoying your summer reads!