Let’s see: it’s still hot as Hades out there, but beginning to cool toward Autumn. I took a summer hiatus due to a heavy workload irl, and am now back to blogging.

Sadly, we had a tornado-force microburst wind come through the ranch, crushing the sanc. dogs’ steel kennels and loosing 4 dogs into the desert. In the end, one dog was lost, (the blue-eyed dog, Boo Boo, up there in my avatar) and nine days later, we found her remains. She went up a small mountain and fell. It appears her death was instantaneous.

So, we’ve been very sad here, the last few weeks, as we say goodbye to a dog we loved and adjust to the empty spots she used to occupy. We’re so grateful, however, to have the closure, to have found her remains, and that we could bring her home and bury her in the garden.

Em

Update me when you have the chance…

Steph

Add the extreme heat (112-116 degrees!) and I’ve been lucky to think straight on top of the rest.

Thanks for reading and commenting. Y’all ROCK!

Em

Em

{{{{{{{{{{ Steph }}}}}}}}}}} haven’t hugged ya’ in a bit! It was great to see you here. : )

Yup, I’m still plugging along down Query Road, wherever it may lead! Have a bunch of fulls and partials out there, which is a thrill in itself.

I was telling my husband yesterday that this has been, by far, one of the most thrilling years I’ve had in a long time.

I still remember how, before I’d even written The Girl Next Door, I told you I was going to write “the next book” and see what happened, when the first novel had no requests (need to shorten it, and write a new query. One day). And now, here I am with that next novel. Good old TGND.

Getting a little further each time? I’ll take it. Learning *so much* and working my a** off? I’ll take that, too. It’s all been worth it, and as always, if not TGND, then “the next book”.

I’m incredibly stubborn that way. : )

Em