An author friend of mine asked me how it is that I can work on several books at once.  He suggested that, perhaps, I must surgically trisect my brain.  Well, no.  I just have (at the moment) three muses, one per active project.  And each one dictates what we’re going to do to their work on each given day.  With TVS, it’s all plot-mapping and timing, which is an incredible headache sometimes.  With CE, it’s also timing and plot-mapping, but, since CE is maddeningly convoluted and involves many, many characters, some of them quite nasty, intensity and pacing plays a major role, while timing and plot moves to second fiddle.  SL, on the other hand, is all about getting enough zing and sharpened delivery spaced out so that I don’t kill my reader as I swing them wildly between terror and hilarity. 

Of course, then we have the small pots fermenting in the background, one a series with a significant main character and one a single release with a delightful, if emotional basis in what would seem, at first glance, to be anybody’s neighborhood.  Plus there’s the sinfully despicable, even decadent novel that’s festering so badly that it’s eating through the steel lining of its storage container.

Meanwhile, TW sits snug and comfortable in its book box awaiting its moment in the sun as I contemplate pre-promotional pushes to get you folks interested in begging to sign up for copies pre-publication.  I’d like a sign-up of at least 10,000 people, a modest amount, I believe.  Still working out the hows on that, but, since I have a lot of in-house talent to tap — webmasters, artists, and an individual who feeds on anything having to do with marketing (someone I swear should be institutionalized).  One thing I do know is that, once the brain-storming starts, I will want to leave the area.  If I don’t, I can plan on feeling like I’ve just been flattened by a steamroller.  (Gawd, they bore me sometimes with their jargon, their schemes, and calculating.)

Of course, also on my heady agenda is poking my peers in the ribs when they fail to deliver their daily quota of words.  Then there’s planning out how to pre-promote, then promote, their efforts as well, once their tomes are headed into production.

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