Someone's been busy... (Hint: IT'S ME.)

Please excuse my end-of-the-day hair and makeup.  I have three working AA batteries in my entire apartment and my digital camera requires four. 

My phone - which is a piece of shit and, at less than a year old, only delivers text messages when it feels like it, and only rings occasionally, and oftentimes not at all, even though callers on the other end hear it ringing and then get mad at me for not responding to their missed calls, which never show up on my end - has no internet access - I'm too cheap - and can only directly download pictures to a PC - and I have a Mac.

THEREFORE, my only option for taking a picture was to go with my computer, and I had to take a picture, dammit, because what I'm holding in my hand is the "Reader Version" of my second book (!!).  You may or may not have thought I was making this book up, what with how long I've been working on it.  In fact, Alex just recently called me "lazy" for not having it out yet.

And um, fuck that; it's only been a year and a half since my last book came out and when you start cranking out a book every other year in your free time just for the hell of it, then you can complain about my time frame.  Until then, shut the hell up.

BUT THERE IT IS.  The first printed copy!  Melissa read a really (really) rough draft a few months ago, but we're (the royal we) now far enough along that it was time to print it out and bring in more readers for their feedback and suggestions.

I have no idea what the schedule will be like in terms of making the rest of the edits because I do not yet have an idea of what those edits might be.

But I felt it imperative to share with you that I have been working very hard on this, and sometimes when I don't blog for a week at a time, this is why.  You now have proof that this book exists!  And I hope you are all looking forward to the day when I start harassing you to buy a copy. :)