She's at home, sick. Alas. But thanks to tons of ginger tea, with honey, and homemade chicken soup a la Loving Husband, I'm on the mend. Huzzah and all that.

So I've been working on the LOSS page proofs — sending them back to my editor tomorrow, yay! — and starting to sketch out ideas for BREATH. And I've been working on a sekrit project that I'll have to set aside to truly concentrate on BREATH, but I'm hopeful that will be done before the end of the year. BREATH is due to my editor in March. Expect me to be a neurotic mess for the first quarter of 2012. Just sayin'.

This, unfortunately, means BEFORE THE FALL — the first book in Pit and Paradise — has been pushed back. I'm looking forward to writing Hell 2.0, I truly am. Luckily, Jezebel and Daunuan are extremely patient. Well, more accurately, they're good at waiting. They're damned impatient, but they're good sports. Um, evil sports. Oh, you know what I mean.

So Albacon 2011 has been canceled, alas. But I'll be doing a breakout session at ALAN in Chicago in November, and there may be a panel/signing there too. More to follow.