I’m sitting at my desk typing this and looking longingly (and a not without trepidation) out the window at my garden. I’m glad spring came early this year, but I wasn’t quite ready to start weeding. I still need my mornings and weekends for drafting! Hopefully I will get out there after work today and celebrate Earth Day by getting some actual earth under my fingernails.

I have emmerged victorious on the other side of the boggy bit I mentioned in my last post, although there was a 5K word casualty in the form of a chapter that just went in completely the wrong direction. And now my protag is breaking into an alien research base so things are zooming along again.

Some other miscellaneous things:

• Author Beth Revis (who has an awesome sounding YA scifi series on the way starting next year! Go go scifi!) has a series of posts on love triangles up on her blog that I couldn’t help but comment on. If you want to discuss what works and what doesn’t, head over here and here! Oh, and RJ, if you are reading this — am I remembering correctly that you posted about actual three-sided triangles in your blog? I was pretty sure I first heard that from you but I can’t find the post now.
• Speaking of love triangles, I just finished Maggie Stiefvater’s BALLAD, and really,really enjoyed it. I found it particularly interesting how a character I sympathized with in the first book could turn into a character I kinda loathed in the second. But it ended in a way that made me very happy!
• I adore the Eleventh Doctor and new companion Amy. So. Very. Excited for the rest of this season! I turn into a squeeing fangirl just thinking about it.
• I need a planet or moon to hide a spaceship behind. Any suggestions? Deimos is pretty nifty looking, isn””t it?

And in a last bit of miscellany, I got a package in the mail from my editor yesterday, and inside were…

Finished copies of THE MAGICAL MISADVENTURES OF PRUNELLA BOGTHISTLE!

My favorite part of seeing the real book is taking of the dustjacket and seeing what the book looks like underneath. In this case I started giggling with delight because they used this dark green alligator-skin texture, to match the giant alligator on the jacket. Genius! I love it, and I am so pleased to see the real book. Only about a month now til it goes out into the big world.

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