Two weeks...

and still flying. Good news, getting validation and having someone believe in your ability to tell stories does wonders for the ego.

I've already started work on the next book and have made good progress. Unfortunately I have a day job that gets in the way of writing--like the essays I have to correct right now. But only five more weeks until summer vacation and then I can turn into Super Writer Woman. I plan to have the rough draft of book two done by RWA National (hope to see some of you there.)

Odd how when you are involved with schools (as a parent, as a teacher, as a student), the year begins and ends with the school schedule, not the calendar. I keep trying to tell my students that the way we measure time is arbitrary anyway. It's for our convenience, without any real meaning. We could rework a clock to have ten hours, consisting of 100 minutes of 100 seconds each (they wouldn't be hours and minutes as we understand them now). Who designed this weird 24 hours, 60 minutes, 60 second thing anyway (I know, I know, the Babylonians)? Just as it would be easy to have one time zone for the world and we could simple do things at different times--In England they eat breakfast at 7:00 AM, while in California they would eat at 3:00PM, when it would be morning in California. No more resetting your watch. And different cultures already have different year counters--The Jewish calendar, the Chinese calendar, the Mayan calendar which claims the world will end in 2012 (actually this isn't true at all--the Mayan calendar doesn't predict the end of the world at all, but I won't go into that here).

So back to the two weeks. I've sold again, and I'm still thrilled no matter how you measure it.
--Gabi

Books I'm reading now:
Some like it Wild by Teresa Medeiros
Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman

News, news, news

I'm baaaack. My agent has just finished negotiating a three book deal with TOR for my contemporary paranormal series, The Time of Transition. Every seventy-five years, the safeguards between the magical world and the human world are weakened as a new group of protectors are put in place. This time, someone is trying to take over. It'll take three special women to keep the entire world safe. Don't mess with them. They are the next Fairy Godmothers!

These three books are lighter paranormals with a lot a fun and seriousness in them. TOR is changing the titles of the novels, and I don't know yet what they will be, and I'm taking on a pen name, which I will release here if you want to follow me, but the release dates are May 2010, April 2011, and March 2012.

I can't tell you how excited I have been this past week as negotiations were underway. And I can't tell you how thrilled I am with my agent. And I can't tell you how thrilled I am being a TOR author.
--Gabi

Books I'm reading now:
In Golden Blood by Stephen Woodworth
So Enchanting by Connie Brockway
What a Lady Wants by Victoria Alexander
Waltzing with Tumbleweeds by Dusty Richards