Last day!

Today was the last day of my absolutely crazy October schedule. Yes, I'm aware it is November, but, well. After an afternoon meeting with my home writer's group, I headed home for some Chinese take-out with the family. They're all a bit sick (with what I had), so went to bed early. Which was, honestly, great. It allowed me some relax and catch-up time on Facebook and MySpace.

I had two releases - one yesterday, one today. Yesterday, my short story, Thicker Than Stone came out in the Carpathian Shadows Anthology. Today my chapter on Chinese Magic came out in the Elements of Fantasy, Magic book. I hope I don't seem too blase or jaded about the whole thing - I AM excited. It's just that my energies have all been spent, and now I'm faced with the whole, "Here we go again" of marketing and such. I guess I need a few days to adjust, I'll be okay and back into promotion mode again soon.

I've been working on rewrites for my vampire series as requested by my agent, though it's slow going, I'm sure in a bit it will become a much easier task. I've been asked to 'add more description of the world'. That is not such an easy task. My world is fully 3-D in my mind and I have a ton of images, so that's not the problem. The problem lies in choosing from those images only the ones that truly make an impact to the story. My style has never been overly wordy, but I guess in that I have also been too cryptic and my readers want to be more fully immersed. Fair enough. Working on those changes.

So for now I get at least one week off (WOOT) before I have more bookings and such.

More fun stuff ahead - including a radio interview, an online interview, a book signing and a parade.

For now, I rest, and work on rewrites to the series.