Not really. Actually, I love spring. Mostly, because I'm not such a big fan of winter and being cold. Now, if i was living somewhere sub-tropical where the medium temperature was always somewhere above 70 degrees F, I'd think differently but...
I'm not sure what's wrong with me. I'm sick, that much is certain. I'm really congested, my nose keeps running and I can't even blow my nose anymore because A: I've rubbed it raw blowing it tons of times. China! You need Kleenex Lotion or something and B: Nothing really comes out anyways.
Is it a cold? Is it allergies? What the heck is wrong with me? Either way, my sinuses are killing me since I've been forcefully blowing my nose and Loratadine won't help me. Nothing will help me. EEK.
ANYWAYS.
WOLVES AND BRIMSTONE will be out within the next week. I actually pulled it from publication, mostly because it ends on a bit of a cliffhanger and I wanted to include the first chapter of the next book, tentatively titled DARK MOON RISING (not that tentative...I've already got the cover art for it...) to kind of soften the blow. I've got to be honest though...Tanith really has her work cut out for her. A multitude of things happen in this particular book that really tests her relationship with Jamison and...I really shouldn't say anymore. Suffice to say, Tanith really needs the ally who appears on her doorstep in the last few paragraphs of the last chapter.
DARK MOON RISING, for all the plotting and outlining I'm trying to do, is looking like it will be a full length novel, somewhere around the length of 80-90k, which is a bit of a relief for me. I like the short 45-50k lengths of the previous books, but I feel like I can really get indepth and dirty with a story with a lot more leeway with word count.
In other news...
As you know, I live in China. There's a lot of things I find interesting about this country and a lot of things I just can't stand. One of them is the censorship that blocks Facebook and Twitter. I mentioned those two because they seem like the biggest blocked websites that foreigners/expats here complain about. Me, I couldn't really care much.
China also blocks Wordpress, Blogger, and Google. Which I use every day, all the time, every time. THIS DRIVES ME BONKERS. Thankfully, I've found a semi-reliable workaround that involves hooking up a VPN to my Android tablet (because, for some reason, my computer DOES NOT LIKE our VPN service and keeps kicking me off) as well as a bluetooth keyboard and using different apps that enable me to access my files, and MOST OF ALL, update this blog.
I blame the lack of updates on the whole China thing. Hopefully, this workaround will enable me to be a little more punctual with posts and whatnot. We shall see.
In other, other news...
Looks like we'll be in China for another few years. OH JOY. At the very least, two more years. Then, who knows where? Best guess would be back to Korea...and then who really knows where. A good guess would be Japan and then possibly Taiwan after that. The joys of being wed to a linguist...oooh boy.
Okay, I think that' s it for now. I'd like to release WOLVES AND BRIMSTONE by the 10th, as well as an omnibus edition of HER WICKED KISS, WAITING FOR DARKNESS, BITE, and WOLVES AND BRIMSTONE possibly in a few weeks, modestly priced at 5.99, which is a great value, considering the cost for the individual books to be around ten dollars...plus, there's more to read!
Today, got lots to do. Lots to read, write, plot, fun fun fun.
I also need to watch Lethal Weapon. More on this tomorrow.
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