Wow. It’s a little after 1am as I’m writing this, and my brain is pretty much shot. It’s been a crazy weekend...first nearly a full day of shopping on Saturday as we sought (and found – yay!) the perfect new entertainment center. Yes, we’re finally getting a flat panel TV next month, because we finally had the money to upgrade the entertainment furniture to accommodate one (well, and TV’s have come down to a more reasonable price too). We also stopped at our local candy store and bought a bunch of stuff for our impending Halloween party as well as a few gifts. It was a busy day.

Then Sunday I spent the majority of the day finishing the formatting and uploads of Carol R. Ward’s new romantic fantasy, An Elemental Wind (which you should all read – it’s awesome). It’s available in the BSB store now for just .99 cents (introductory price), and will be available in other online stores as they put it up throughout the week. The paperback will be available in mid-October. And if you like that book, you’ll need to catch up with the serial novel on her blog – another in the Ardraci Elementals series. The official launch is Friday, and I think we’ll do something special on the Snake Bites blog to celebrate...

But wait, there’s more! Between uploading and laundry and making dog food for the week, I also managed to finish the thriller novella I’ve been working on since January. Angel Eyes is done, and I can’t say for certain, but I think I’m happy with how it turned out. We’ll see what the editor says, and I should have that out in November.

Did I mention I finished another erotica short last week as well?

So yeah. Lots going on around here. Which explains why I missed yesterday’s blog post – but it will keep until next week.

This Week on The Variety Pages

Monday: Weekly News, Goals, & Archives 9/26/11
Wednesday: Writing Notes – Character vs. Plot vs. Genre.
Friday: Ch. 20 of Falling in Public
Sunday: Code Name: Succulent – The Beauty of Pets

Elsewhere

Tuesday: Chapter 20 of The Minister’s Maid at Fantasy Ranch Novels
Tuesday: New design at NailArt Tuesday
Tuesday: Tea post at Tea onTap
Thursday: Record Keeping at Beyond the Words
Saturday: The Mail Center at Routinely Yours

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 September 18 – September 25

Fiction
Chapter 19 of The Minister's Maid (Romantic Suspense, FantasyRanchNovels.com)
Chapter 19 of Falling in Public (Romantic Suspense, The Variety Pages)
Chapter 18 of The PileDriver (TrinityMarlow.com – Erotica, Adults only, NSFW)
Chapter19 (final) of The Pile Driver (TrinityMarlow.com – Erotica, Adults only, NSFW)
Chapter 59 (final) of Angel Eyes (AlexWesthaven.com - Thriller)

Writing/Reading/Publishing

Writing Notes: Details, Details (The Variety Pages)
Marketing Is...What it is (Beyond the Words

Personal/Hobbies

Planning to Fail (Routinely Yours)

Goal Reports

I actually did pretty well with most of my writing and business goals last week. Finishing two serials was awesome, getting Carol’s book out was/is awesome, and I feel pretty good about the progress I made. Personal stuff got shoved aside rather handily, unfortunately, so I need to catch up in that respect this week. I’ll be waiting to start new serials for a week or so, in order to give myself some time to work on revisions for TWC. I’d really like to get those done sooner rather than later...

Goals for the Week

Writing

• Two serial chapters

• Send completed stories to the editor

• Revise TWC (finish, if possible)

• Finish my flash story for Rattles

Business

• Submit books for review

• Catch books up (really...*must* do this).

• Finish customizing new store

• Post new author services packages

Personal

• Workout four nights

• Clean out and either donate or move aquariums.

• Catch up laundry

• Move a bunch of stuff downstairs/to garage to prepare for carpet installation

And I think that’s it for me this week. Now it’s 1:35am, and I am headed for bed. Here’s to a fabulous week...

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