Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It

There are quite a few things coming up! Woot! Woot already! By the end of this week, I should have another vintage fashion spotlight. Remember those? We also have one more Taos interview ready to go, and at least three writers and their process interviews in the wings. Next week, I'll be up on someone else's site in an interview myself. At some point I want to post some pictures of my new vintage dresses and talk about them. Gotta find some time to do some hair and make up. I hope to get to this in February. And, starting a new book means RESEARCH! So you'll be getting some research on a variety of what will seem like disparate topics.

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Let's talk about starting a new book. I'm as done with Abigail Rath as I can be for now. I am waiting until February to finish up the revisions on The Were-Humans (thank you, my wonderful beta readers!). So, the logical thing to do is to begin the new book. Which I have.

To prepare for writing a five book series, almost all of them stand alone books, I have done some plotting. Before I wrote Abby, I spent a few months plotting about 90 years of Klarion soap opera. I did research on the houses and the clothes, some on the period in general, and I started the third book. What I discovered was that it wasn't working the way I wanted to because I am still too married to its previous incarnation. So, I stopped that, did a mad NaNoWriMo, and generated a middle grade novel from the primordial goo that came from it .

I took Klarion book 3 to Taos. It got some good crit. But I did this VERY IMPORTANT thing at Taos, which might have been the most important nugget of writing I took from the workshop. At the beginning of the second week, I asked several kind Taosians to come to my room and help me figure out NOT the human part of the book, which I know very well, but the cosmological part of the book, which was a mystery to me. What we came up with is very exciting stuff to me, with lots of double crosses and intrigues, twists and turns, that span across the Egyptian pantheon and the changes that occurred religiously in Egypt to create the situations that Erasmus' Klarions ancestors have to deal with. This is the WHY of the book, and it means that many of my human characters are puppets (awww!!!) until about book 3, when one of them is too smart for the celestials' own good. Anyway, thanks to the Taosians who helped me plot. And thanks to my husband Bryon, who recently told me that the Klarion scroll was made by Solomon. Check out Solomon, by the way, and see his traffic with demons.

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