July 1T Olio

Quick update time! Here's what I have in the works for the next couple months.

• Downbeat (Biting Love Book 7)--is in my wonderful/amazing editor's hands for pre-edits
• Beauty Bites (Biting Love Book 6)--releases next month, August 27, so excited!
• Biting Oz (Biting Love Book 5)--now out in paperback!
• Camp Nano--I'm camping this month, to finish Murder at Chipmunk Lake (A Nixie and Julian Story)
• Lots and lots of parties and events. Check out my NEWS page.
• Aiden's story (Biting Love Book 8)--I'm starting the prewriting phase
• A Billionaire for the Wrong Sister, an indie romantic comedy, is in the edit and rename phase
• Alphas Don't Wear Bows--is up next, for finishing the mega-edit process I started in January with Savvy Authors' EditPalooza
• My Savvy Authors' blog post for August--Synopsis in a Snap!
• Hot Chips and Sand is winding up its free run on my Sidetrips blog

Penultimate

Here we are, in the second-last month of the year, two days away from the last month of 2011. What are you doing? Starting your holiday preparations or already hip-deep in the flood? Still eating Thanksgiving leftovers or selecting your New Year's hot spot?

As I tie up loose ends from the TRS Thanksgiving party and pound out the last 3000 NaNoWriMo words, I'm given to reflecting what a strange time of year this is. It's a time to finish. But it's also the jumping-off point for new beginnings.

Penultimate means second-to-last. It's not the end, but it is the harbinger of it, the voice in the wilderness. Yet what is after the last? Maybe We're done with this. What's next?

What's next for you? Hopefully something fresh and fun.

NaNoWriMo 2011 Starts Today

Okay, so for me it'll be Na1/2NoWriMo, because my books end up closer to 100,000 words. But it's just as fun! I'll be pumping out words for the next Biting Love novel, tentatively titled Beauty Bites. Join me as a buddy or just stop by to say hi!

Coming next month--a special Biting Love readers-only giveaway. More details next week.

What will the heroine of Beauty Bites be called? The results of the poll: Synnove! But there were almost as many votes for Alexis, so I'll be giving Synnove a sister, who may just show up in a book down the road...

Thanks to everyone who voted! And thanks for your great comments. I'm in awe of how creative you all are!

Final results:
Alexis-9
Cynthia-0
Dakota-1
Isabella-5
Jansie-1
Liv-1
Natalia-6
Synnove-10
Ulrika-1

Awesome suggestions:
Amanda Ryder (Mandy)
Ameren
Ingrid
Kari (Karita)
PersephoneTory (Thorir)