Rain stopped last night. Huzzah! So of course we had to hit the trails this morning, after everybody was clean, fed, dressed, and we parents had enough caffeine. Two days of being cooped up inside while it poured outside had us all cranky and bursting to get out. Had a nice 2 plus mile trek, the husband and toddler photographed some wildflowers, and then we got kids down for naps and I went back to Miss Lonely Hearts.

Olympic wildflower

It’s been more work than any other book I’ve ever done, by a long long long shot, but I’m happy with it now. I can honestly say it’s a better book than Love and Rockets, and that won a nice award, so I’ll feel good about letting this one loose on the world.

My final editing pass has gone well, still working at the last two chapters, and then it’s off to the Evil Editor. I can see her weeping over the adverbs now. (I uprooted many, but they grow like weeds.)