*Deep Breath*

Settle in, folks – lots of info to cover today.

It’s been busy around here, as usual, and I’ve nearly got The Biker’s Wench up and available in most places. The official release date isn’t until Friday, and by then I’ll have signed copies available at Brazen Snake Books as well. As always, if you do buy a print copy (anywhere), send me the receipt (a copy via email is fine, remove all acct. numbers, please), and I’ll send you a digital copy for free.

I hope you’ll join me Friday at FantasyRanchNovels.com for a release day contest in honor of The Biker’s Wench – fun stuff that only happens on release day, so don’t miss out.

In other news, I need to move the blog schedule around a bit to fit better with my new “condensed” overall agenda. Nothing too huge, just a couple minor changes.

• The Weekly Archive will now be included with the Weekly News & Goals post on Monday

• Code Name: Succulent will move to Sunday

Why? Because I have a business blog that I want to post to on Thursdays, and I’ve been consistently unable to get posts done for that when I have a Thursday post scheduled here. So clearing my schedule here for Thursday means I’ll be able to post there. It’s kind of like one of those slider puzzles where you just keep moving the tiles around until the picture comes together. Sure, I could just take some tiles out to make them fit better, but what kind of a challenge would that be?

Tuesdays are still open for guest posts/author interviews, and Saturdays are still open for excerpts, so don’t be shy if you’re an author, and want to jump in (email me – blog calendar is linked on the right if you want to pick an open date). All genres welcome – this is The Variety Pages, after all...

This Week on The Variety Pages

Monday: Weekly News, Goals, & Archives 7/24/11

Wednesday: Writing Notes: Sequential Series
Friday: Ch. 11 of Falling in Public
Sunday: Code Name: Succulent – On Food

Elsewhere

Tuesday: Chapter 10 of The Minister’s Maid at Fantasy Ranch Novels
Tuesday: New design at NailArt Tuesday
Thursday: Release Comparisons at Beyond the Words
Saturday: Tea review at Tea onTap
Sunday: Progress Report at Body in Motion

If you missed a post last week and want to catch up, here’s the link list. Note that this includes *all* of my posts, including for my pen name genres and non-writing blogs, so click at your own risk.

Posts for July 16 - 24

Fiction
Chapter 10 of The Minister's Maid (Romantic Suspense, FantasyRanchNovels.com)
Chapter 10 of Falling in Public (Romantic Suspense, The Variety Pages)
Chapter 1 of The Pile Driver (TrinityMarlow.com – Erotica, Adults only, NSFW)

Chapter 2 of The Pile Driver (TrinityMarlow.com – Erotica, Adults only, NSFW)
Chapter 51 of Angel Eyes (AlexWesthaven.com, Thriller)

Writing/Reading/Publishing
Writing Notes: Sleep & Words (The Variety Pages)

Hobbies/Other
Green Holo-Mask (Nail Art Tuesday)

Health & Personal Wellness
Code Name: Succulent - When Life Hands You Lemons (The Variety Pages)

Goal Reports

I’m about 50/50 again this week as far as getting stuff done goes. All my serial chapters got done last week (the most important part), and I did finish the beta read I was working on. I didn’t get the edits done to my erotica short, but that will just roll over one more week. I got TBW formatted and uploaded to most sites, I just have to tweak one of them a little before I pronounce it “done”. I didn’t get my web sites updated, so that will roll over too.

I did decompress when needed, which was...necessary, but a bummer to have to spend the time, nonetheless. I got three workouts in, and made a little time to read, though not nearly as much as I’d have liked. But I’m getting used to my new schedule, so this week should be a little easier.

Goals for the Week

Writing

• Five serial chapters

• Edits to the latest short

• Beta reading

Business

• Update web sites

• Update both business blogs

• Finish uploading TBW

• Format new short & upload

• Bookkeeping

Personal

• Workouts

• Read more

• Play some

And that’s my week, along with the day job, of course. What’s going on in your world? Any posts I missed last week you want to share? What’s top on your priority list?

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