Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Flirt on The List & the Lists
Flirt will be #3 on the New York Times list week of February 21st. Yay!
We are currently #5 at Borders.
#6 at Barnes and Noble.
#7 on Bookscan.
#11 USA Today.
Thanks to everyone who bought a copy of Flirt. Glad so many of you have enjoyed Anita’s extra adventure for the year. Thanks also to everyone who’s let me know that the nonfiction piece in the back of the book has been useful or insightful. How do I get my ideas is one of the questions people ask the most of a writer. I did my best to… Read More
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Monday, February 15, 2010
The Deadline that would not Die
I’m still working at the first of two scenes I need to finish for Bullet. I’ve done seven pages, but it’s still just set up. I’m now at the meat of the scene and I don’t want to do it. Three days off between the last big push and now just don’t seem to be enough to refresh me and my muse. We’re still tired. Dusk falls around me as I try to write, and I feel punished.
Trinity was looking forward to some mother/daughter time, and so was I. She went with Grandma and Grandpa to see the movie,… Read More
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Sunday, February 14, 2010
No Little Lost Lamb, because the Wolf is coming Back for another Bite
I usually do this Little Lost Lamb thing when a book is done. I wander from room to room at a loss. I don’t know what to do with myself. I wander into Jon’s office and bother him, then wander out to other parts of the house and bother everyone a little. I’m like this gloomy little cloud of, “What do I do now?” I’ve been working so long and so hard on a book and suddenly it’s done it’s as if my brain and body can’t figure out how to do anything else. I have to decompress and go… Read More
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Bullet is Done
Woke up this morning with a mash-up of songs in my head. Pink’s “Sober” & Godsmack’s “Serenity”. Surprisingly good mix. Pink’s album Funhouse and Godsmack’s three albums were what I finished Bullet to, so they will be the songs stuck in my head for awhile. I’ve learned that the soundtrack for an intense book continues to be my soundtrack in my head for a time. But I don’t usually listen to two such different kinds of music intermixed. I think that explains the mash-up.
I finished Bullet, the next Anita Blake novel, last night at around six something. Which meant… Read More
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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
I slept last Night
I did not finish Bullet last night. I made the executive decision that I, my husband, Jonathon, and my friend and assistant, Carri, could not all go on three hours or less sleep two days running. I’d sent Carri to nap so that she could take the late shift from Jonathon. Good idea, as far as it went. But I went back to my computer and stared blankly at the screen for at least twenty minutes. I knew exactly what happened next I was simply was too tired to write it.
I sat at my desk with the banks of… Read More
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Afraid to Hope
Finished work at 2AM went to sleep at 3AM. Alarm sounded at 6AM. Getting up after only three hours of sleep was brutal. What was worse was the fact that the current book I’m writing, Bullet, the June Anita Blake novel, was still not finished. Days and nights of punishing page counts and hours and still the end eludes me. I sit here at nearly 5PM and am still not done. I have a chance to be done tonight before dawn if I can find the stamina to do it, but I honestly don’t know if I have another late… Read More
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Saturday, February 06, 2010
In the Bright Light of Day
Sometimes I’m too hard on myself and that makes my character Anita Blake too hard on herself. Merry Gentry cuts herself more slack than either of us. I’m not sure why, but Anita does take the brunt of my near punishing standards for myself. Example in point, last night’s writing session. I expected Anita and myself to be able to go from seeing one of THE most violent crime scenes she’s ever seen, plus video of another murder where the bad guy is taunting Anita personally, to being able to do cocktail party talk and flirting. It’s what was up… Read More
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