I hope everyone had a nice Christmas/Hannukka/Kwaanza and/or Festivus. Don and I did our usual thing. We got up late, opened presents, drove around for awhile just to see out of idle curiosity if anything was open. Then we came home and fixed a Christmas dinner of fake chicken and okra pie. The okra ‘pie’ [...]

About five minutes ago, I sent the manuscript for the third book in the Alafair Tucker series to my editor for her first reading.  What an unutterable relief.  Now I get to wait nervously for her impressions.  For the other books, there was some rewriting involved, which in both cases I was able to finish in [...]