The Editing Fairy came back. . . .

Darn her little butterfly wings! She dropped a big ol' pile of manuscript on my doorstep this morning, which apparently has to be read by Wednesday. WEDNESDAY! That's like . . . um, less than a week! And I was so happy slacking off! Knitting, and reading stuff that doesn't have a deadline. And getting together some fresh new text for my website! Of course, it's the manuscript for Dragon Flight, and I know that we all want Dragon Flight to be nice and pretty and full of juicy goodness. Sigh. So, for the sake of the dragons, I shall endeavor to meet my deadline with grace and aplomb, and also with perspicacity and all kinds of big words that will just make this the best sequel EVER! Up until I finish the third book, and that becomes the best sequel ever. And speaking of which, I may be changing the title of that one. I know I've been calling it Dragon Crown, but it seems to me that that might be a more apt title for a fourth book I've been mulling. . . . Hm. Well, just don't get too attached to any titles you can't find on the cover of an actual book in an actual bookstore, that's all I'm saying.

It's coming!!

Do not fear change! Change is good! If you do fear change, I hate to break it to you, but change is coming. My husband realized a couple of weeks ago that he has to take about 57 days off before the end of the year or his vacation pay will go to waste. (Yeah, you thought we took some fancy pants vacation back in the summer like normal people, didn't you? Nope.) He has nobly agreed to use this time to revamp, recycle, and renew my website. GASP! He's been telling me that some of the doohickeys and buttons and things are "so '90's", but I don't program so all I could do was nod politely. Well, it's apparently gotten bad enough that he's going to fix it. Different colors! Different menus! Different . . . other stuff! The fun thing is that I am writing all kinds of new and exciting text for it. There'll be a little feature for each book called Why I Wrote It, where I talk about what inspired each book. I might even reveal some of my inside jokes, like where I got certain character names. www.dragonslippers.net will also be updated, with recipes for some of the food mentioned in each book, a pronunciation guide, and information on the sequel(s). Fear not, for lo, this change shall thrill you!