Cool news and writing progress

First of all, the cool news -- Armed & Magical has sold out its first press run and is now in its second printing! Thank you to all of you for snatching up those copies. : )

For those of you who are planning to go to the Romantic Times Booklovers Convention in April, online convention registration is now open at www.rtconvention.com. If you want to get a room in the convention hotel (the Wyndham Orlando Resort), register ASAP. Rooms in the convention hotel go quickly. If you're staying at another hotel, or crashing with friends in the Orlando area, registration isn't as urgent.

As to my work progress on Bewitched & Betrayed -- I'm exploring my villains' motivations. Since the villains are the ones who make all the problems for Raine to deal with, I've always felt that understanding what they want and why they want it is critical to know before I settle down to start writing in earnest.

And "Book Brain Syndrome" strikes again -- For those of you who've been reading my blog for a while, you know that I define "Book Brain Syndrome" as those times when you can't do simple tasks because the vast majority of your brain is being held hostage by your muse for book-related thinking. Last night, I was doing a load of laundry. Simple, huh? Apparently not for me in the grips of Book Brain. The laundry finished washing, I went into the laundry room, opened the washing machine to put the clothes into the dryer. . . then I just stood there, staring down at the wet clothes. Something just wasn't right. Then it hit me -- Oh crap, I forgot to put in the laundry detergent. So I washed the clothes again, and this time I used detergent. It was Book Brain Syndrome at its finest.

Lisa