My brain is a hamster on a wheel…on crack. The hamster, I mean, not the wheel.

I wrote this entry the other night, but my computer ate it. So, take two…(take two what, Stacey? Ha! *snort* I crack myself up. I’m clearly very tired here and operating on about half a brain…)

Now that I’ve found a home for BITTER PILL—yea!—I’m being a good author and looking ahead to the next Rennie story. One of my big mistakes with THE SILVER SPOON was waiting until it was released to worry about finishing the second book. And now with RuneStone closing, I’m kind of stuck because I’ve got to find a new publisher for THE SILVER SPOON before I can get the sequel out there. That means readers will have waited more than two years between each book. Auuughhh! Not good. Not going to happen again. I’m soooo learning from that mistake.

So, for Rennie, I have a draft of the next one, but it’s very rough. I’m worried that it might share too much in common thematically with BP. But it’s not pulled together enough for me to give the whole thing over to my trusted and patient first readers to see what they think. And my dilemma is that I don’t want to spend time fixing this one if it’s too similar because that’s time I should be spending writing a new one instead. So, I’ve asked a couple of my first readers to read the first two chapters and see what they think. And so far, so good. My thanks to Becky D., Stacy G., and Susan for their help.

All of this has started me thinking about my writing plans for 2007. I’m still hoping to get THE SILVER SPOON re-released in 2007, followed shortly by the new sequel to that book. And because I hate how big the gap is between first and second book in that series, I need to start writing the third (and final?) book, in hopes of getting it out there in 2008.

So that means for writing projects in 2007, I’ll be:

-finishing edits on the second Zara book (I’m working on those now, and I’m nearly done. Hope to be finished by the middle of January at the latest—yea!).

-editing/revising the second Rennie book.

-writing the third Zara book.

-working on something new!

I’m tired just thinking about all of it, but I love it. : ) I can’t wait to see what 2007 brings!