Happy Halloween and Title News!

It's a very overcast Halloween here in Oregon. If the sky lives up to its promise, the kids are gonna need a tumble dry by the time they get home tonight.

I'm hard at work on the revisions for my new book, which officially has a title! It's called Loose Cannon, a title that I'm actually really pleased with. (I am really bad at titles. Honestly, truly. I am not being modest for the internet). And this is the second book in a row where my editor has had to pass along the marketing department's nicely-phrased suggestion that I prepare a back-up list of titles not just once, but twice. Because of the bad.

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About that Newsletter Doodad

I had a ball making my recent newsletter. Well, okay, the process of figuring out what to include wasn't much fun, and MailChimp had a slightly steeper learning curve than I was expecting, but I had a really good time revisiting the characters from Bad Judgment. Checking in with Brogan and Embry was a spur of the moment thing, but it was the most enjoyable part of the whole newsletter process, so I think I'm going to keep doing it for future newsletters.

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Want to Ask Nosy Questions?

I'm doing an author chat at Night Owl Reviews this upcoming Monday (that would be Oct 24, for those of you who care about that sort of thing). It'll be at 5pm Pacific Time, and there'll be three other authors, each taking about fifteen minutes. We'll be answering questions from readers, posting snippets from our books, and talking about current and upcoming projects. Then we'll give out some free swag. It's a chance to win free books and maybe even gift cards!

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Starting Fresh

One thing I've learned about being a writer is that you're never working on just one book. You've got one book you're doing marketing for because it's about to be released (or just has been), one book you're revising and annoying your editor about, and one book in the pre-planning stages. This is the sort of thing that many people would have no trouble juggling.

I am not one of those people.

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