Summer hasn’t officially started quite yet, but it feels underway. I can’t believe we’ve been at camp three and a half weeks already. It took me longer to get organized and settled this year because we had some work done inside the camp (washer and drier installed for the first time ever, yeah!) and as always in old buildings, one thing led to another. In short, we had to have most of the camp rewired. We also had some damage to the deck because of a storm. Now the roof needs to be replaced, and the septic system looked at, and…
And for some reason, we’ve decided to get a puppy, which is a little wonderful and scary. She will arrive in two weeks, after we get back from a camping trip to Acadia Nation Park, when she’s old enough to become a Camp Pup. I just really hope the Camp Kitties are okay with it. So I’ve been a little frantic.
I have just finished my first revision of Wings Over Water, which is the draft when I go through it before anybody else has read it and make it presentable for someone else to see. It’s where I figure out what the book turned out to be about, and make sure the ending matches the beginning, and everything works out to mean something. Then it goes to my editor, who will tell me the book isn’t about anything, the ending has nothing to do with the beginning, the whole thing means nothing, and there are a hell of a lot of typos and plot holes big enough to swallow Lake Champlain. Then I cry and moan and carry on before I get to work on the book for real. Sigh. Happens every time.
Notice is almost ready to go now, but I decided to wait until Flights of Dragons is done, too, so I can launch them together.
Winter is definitely coming August first.
In the mean time, I feel like I’m working crazy hard, harder than I ever did at my day job,and I’ve got nothing to show for it. But I keep telling myself that by the end of this year, I will have four books, eBook and print, published. Two of them brand new, one second edition, and one compilation of older works. And I’ll be able to say, “Wow, I did a lot this year.” That’s my goal, anyway.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for being patient.