Wednesday, January 08, 2003
It's almost one a.m. and I'm tired and Kathryn and I have to be at the airport by 7 a.m. to make our flight to San Francisco for SpookyCon. I spent most of the day working and most of the night packing. I'm making this post now, before bed, because although I always intend to make posts from cons, I rarely do and this might be my last post until sometime next week. I'm due to return to Atlanta on January 16th.
Today I finished reading through the two existing chapters of Murder of Angels (about 20,000 wds.). They were written back in late 2000 - early 2001, not very long after I finished Threshold. I'd intended to do the Silk. sequel then, but experienced a very bad dry spell. That coupled with my agent's belief that novel #3 shouldn't be a sequel to Silk led to my shelving the ms. in April or May of that year. Reading back over it, I very much like what I see and hope that I can pick up the story where I left off almost two years ago. I had already moved closer to the style that Low Red Moon is written in. Also, I wrote the first 1,000 wds. of a new short story, for an anthology of Gothic short stories for young adults, to be published by Candlewick Press. For the moment, the story's called "The Rose Garden," though that could change. I've never written a story explicitly for this age group before, but I think I'm enjoying the experience.
Oh, and if you need a laugh or three, have a peek at this "article" from the Decatur Daily (Alabama). At last, goth defined:
A Misunderstood Group?
Anyway, if you're in San Francisco, drop by SpookyCon. For details, check out the website at:
SpookyCon
Bed now.
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