I’ve done an interview about the Riley series on Mariachiara’s urban fantasy review site. You can check it out here

My editor has approved Mercy Burns, and the book has moved into the line edit stage! Woohoo!  (okay, I normally don’t get excited about line edits, but the first book in this series went through massive amounts of edits, so its a relief that this one didn’t.)

In other news, Full Moon Rising and Kissing Sin have just been sold to Taiwan, which is pretty exciting. And my new laptop has arrived, although I haven’t yet opened the box because I told myself I couldn’t until I cleaned up the mess that is my study. And it’s taken me over 3 days to do that so far, which shows just how messy it was. Of course, I did have the mess of two house moves in the room with me (I never did get around to chucking out stuff when we were at our last place, so it all came up here with me).

I’m still fiddling around with the beginning of Risa 2–haven’t written a whole lot this week because of the above mentioned cleaning, but I actually dreamed about a conversation between my two protagonist on Friday night, and that seemed to boot the muse into gear a little (I actually wrote when I was having breaky yesterday, something I rarely do). Although I haven’t yet figured out the big bad for this one, and until I do, I doubt I’m going to get very far.

hence the lack of blog posts from me of late. Thanks to the fact that Kasey basically blew up her engine (a result of her not getting her car serviced or putting oil in the car for well over a year–despite her mother’s nagging!), I’ve been playing taxi to either get her to the train station or get her to uni. So, writing time is getting eaten into to. NOT that I would have been writing much had I had the time. This first chapter is s…l…o…w. Real slow. I know a hell of a lot of the plot points for the second Risa book, but for the first time in ages, I’m not entirely sure of my starting point. So, it’s been a case of write, delete, write, think about it, delete. lol.  But the first book (Dark Angels) has been sent off to my writing buddies and agent, and now I have to settle down and do the outline. It has to be shipped out to Bantam this week. (and yeah, I know a synopsis/outline is supposed to be written before the book, but I always suck at doing them that way. lol.)

Oh, and the next chapter of With Friends like These should be up sometime over the weekend, too. 

Full Moon Rising is being released in Italy, and here’s the cover pic:

(with thanks to Maria Chiara for sending me the link!)

In other news, well, there’s not a whole lot. I turned another year older over the weekend, and partied appropriately (with chocolate and bubbly. lol.) Writing wise, I’m doing another read through of Risa, and then I’ll send the whole thing to my crit buddies and agent, and see if it all hangs together. I’ve also started Risa 2–and have managed a whole 2 pages. Hopefully, I’ll get back into the swing of writing once I finish the Risa 1 edits.

has been revealed. Check out the Deadline Dames to read all about it