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I’m putting up Halloween this week, which is always a good time, and after getting COVID/flu jabs and the accompanying side effects, plus the dog’s gastroenteritis, I needed that little hit of dopamine.

News:

Nothing to share at this point.

Works in Progress:

I miss getting a lot of word count in every week, which allowed me to move forward a lot faster and combat some of my natural impatience, but I’m still glad that the story is working enough for me to cross 30K. I wanted to be halfway through by the end of September, but that doesn’t look like it’s going to happen. I also wanted to be finished before the end of October, but that also doesn’t look like it’s going to happen, which disappoints me. I wanted to be working on We Follow You in the Dark rewrites during Halloween.

But I did get my first chapter in to the publisher so they could put it in at the end of Tooth & Claw (Meridian Book 7) as a teaser, and I sent in the official book information for Never & Forever (M8).

Books I’m Reading:

Raising Loki: A Memoir by Elliot Manarin
Rose Madder by Stephen King

Things I’m Listening To:

Halloween playlist

Things I’m Watching:

Hell Fest
Until Dawn
Nope
The Haunted Mansion (2003)
Abigail
Black Phone
CSI series
CSI: NY series
Halloween Baking Championship series

Poem of the Week:

bleached bones in a seated position
against the bone-dry boulder behind
rusted metal in a vehicle frame
a fitting headstone for the former
person who thought waiting for rescue
was easier than picking a direction