Day 1 BIAW went well. I started off by doing the math and breaking it down to pages per day to finish the entire project in a week. I met my 1st day goal and I see two key scenes so far that I can expand and enhance to add to my word count. I’ve also been thinking about the final chapter (which may run to two chapters given some of the scenes that have come to mind for it). Lots of good stuff coming out!

Rockets releases tomorrow. I’m very excited about that. There won’t be an RT ad or review until the Sept. issue, but other reviews should start coming in soon. Did I mention I love the cover? There’s a beautiful animated banner, too, courtesy of my genius husband. I’ve been amusing myself by playing it. : )

Other stuff: I’m fascinated by the amount of discussion around blogs about Romancing the Blog. That alone tells me it’s off to a good start. I know I gave a lot of thought to my first column and what it ought to reflect. I finally decided to write something like I’d write for my own blog but that would stand alone on the grounds that I was invited to be a columnist based on the contents of my blog. So presumably that’s what I’m there to contribute. It’s a neat thing, so many different people, different aspects of the industry, different perspectives all giving their view in one place. If nothing else, we can clearly see how broad and diverse the industry is. I’m looking forward to hearing from the other columnists and seeing what takes shape as it goes forward.