Good news and bad news
I start the year off with some really great news - I have awesome new dogs to inspire me to write!
One is a retired racer greyhound, who is not only beautiful, fast and skinny, but also a complete love hog and hilarious to boot. He thinks he's a lap dog. He's 75 lbs. and all legs, so he isn't. I love him to death already.
I also have an 8 year old Italian Greyhound rescued from the pound, and clearly insane. He's proving a challenge to my writing, since he IS a lapdog, and I have a laptop, and the two are incompatible. It's difficult trying to write a novel over a squirming body.
But after having lost my two best friends and writing companions last year, it's nice to sit down and write while smothered under a dog pile. It gets my creative juices flowing.
The bad news is... The Archer's Heart is officially out of print. :( It IS available as an e-book for anyone who hasn't read it already, but the print version is now officially sold out. I'm sad because it was such a beautiful book - a gorgeous cover, and a pleasure to hold. But alas, the problem with writing a massive tome like the Archer's Heart is that it costs too much for a reprint, so it's days were numbered. I'll look into finding another print publisher for it, but I don't hold out much hope.
In any case, I hope to have a new beautiful Blind Eye Books novel written this year, for publication next year, I believe. I've started work on what I'm calling my "cavalry story"... it's magical realism set during the Crimean War, complete with possessed Victorian soldiers, Greek daemons, magic symbols, and of course, the Charge of the Light Brigade. Woo hoo!
Here's hoping being covered in greyhounds will make my writing go faster!
cheerful
horsey
peaceful
accomplished
grateful
excited