No, this hasn't become a knitting website. I just wanted to report that I actually finished the back of a sweater! I am now working on the front!

The book is still being edited - slowly - which is fine with me since I want to make sure nothing is left to correct this time.

My friend who's fighting cancer also finished the pre-printing copy of A Commitment to Murder and this is what he wrote me:

I finished A Commitment to Murder over the weekend.  I'm impressed!  I have trouble keeping two characters straight for the span of a short story.  How you do what you do is as much a mystery to me as the the story itself. I'm not always able to keep all the players straight in my head but I realized I didn't have to.  All I had to do was trust Lydia.  She's quite the sleuth and it was an excellent read.

So that made me feel good. The first one was the first one. It established characters and the theme of the stories as most first time series stories do. I have found that most are a bit weak in the begining and then with each story get a little bit better. What tends to happen though is after oh, say, ten or twenty of them, the story slips and the characters aren't as appealing anymore. It is a strong writer who can keep their audience after that many books. A lot of my favorites (whom shall remain nameless) are starting to do that, and sadly there have been a couple recently I didn't even finish because I could tell they were working too hard to get to the end of the book.

I don't ever want to be like that. The money and fame (I'm author generated - what's fame and fortune?), I'm sorry, are simply not worth it. I would rather write 4 or 6 good ones and be done with the series than write too many and lose my audience out of sheer boredom.

I've got three in me and half of a fourth. Maybe that will be all I will write. Who knows...

Okay, I have to apologize for my website being down at the end of August. Apparently when I renewed my site, I only renewed the webserver not the domain name. EEK! So after an hour on the phone and 3 days of waiting it came back up. So for those of you who have graciously returned to see if I'm a writer as you were told, or a lawyer, I really am a writer and you weren't at the right page before.

So the editing is almost done. I am having the second person read it - then it can go. Maybe it will be available by Christmas - keep that in mind for your holiday shopping. Now all I need to do - and yes I have written this before - is to send off the fliers to the other genealogical societies to help promote both An Old Fashioned Murder and the upcoming A Commitment to Murder.

In the meantime I have some proclamations to accept for SBCGS for Family History Month (October), a renfaire to prepare for (October), a wedding to attend (2 weeks), fillings to be filled (also 2 weeks) and scrapbooking to catch up on. Oh did I mention I started to knit a sweater? And a book to finish reading "High Spirits" by Dianne K Salerni. It's really good so far. It's about the teenage Fox sisters and their career as mediums in the 1800's. Give it a try! She's also a fellow IAG member too. Click on the logo to check the organization out and see what other authors are members.

Until I remember to blog next time...