Today the post lady was kind enough to deliver the proof for “Isle of the Crescent Moon.” While I prefer to read my books on a Kindle because it keeps my library small (and when you’ve moved a lot, you know what a monumental task it is to move a large library), I love having paper copies of my own books. They’re in the bookcase beside my desk and I often refer to them when working on one of my series.
I’m beginning to recover from a very bad headache brought on by my utterly ridiculous mail-order prescription company who just could not get their act together and get a certain medication to me before I ran out. I was, in fact, out for about two weeks and as a result the headache from the lack of the prescription itself and from dealing with the customer service agents all month was… not entirely debilitating, but certainly made life, and writing, difficult. The agents each had something different to say about why they weren’t filling my re-fill prescription, and when they’d get around to filling it, every single time I called. Yesterday I was informed, oh dear, they were out of stock now, and I was ready to give up. But Brad got on the phone yesterday and in spite of a ridiculous number of hurdles, and a whole lot of phone calls, got my prescription filled locally and got insurance to cover it. The headache isn’t entirely gone, but it’s going, and all I can say is… thank you, dear. Thank you for using your Mighty Voice to get it done. That’s one of his superpowers, and he uses it well.
I’m about 50 pages into 601 Suspense Street, and as always happens, the plot is growing and morphing into more than I originally planned. Characters are adding their 2 cents (in the case of Miss Rosalie, she’s added about a wall’s worth of gold so far), and I can’t wait to see where the story goes!
Happy reading, everyone! I’m off to pick up an afternoon latte. It’s a dreadfully long trip, I have to walk about two feet to get to the machine. After I make the arduous journey back to my desk, assuming I don’t have to fight the cat for my chair, I’m going to get back to writing.