Oh my God, guys!

I have been incredibly busy!

As you know, I recently moved. And so we’ve been getting settled, constructing Swedish furniture, reducing the number of cardboard boxes that surround us.

And, on top of that, I’ve been writing!

In fact, I finished the first draft of SEAS RUN DRY! (Final word count, 74,000 and change. Final word? “Water.” Amount of coffee I have recently consumed? Tons!)

I figured that I should use this small stretch of unemployment to good use. And rumor has it that a certain rockstar agent is still looking for mermaid books. So I’m marching forward! Spending lots and lots of time at my computer. Writing first, editing now.

And you know what? It’s going well. It’s going really well. I feel so much happier with this manuscript, as a draft, then I have with my other, previous, shelved/trunked books. I think I’m learning. What a novel concept!

I’m going to be sending this draft to some people for quick-and-dirty betaing soon, hopefully in the next day or so, but definitely by the end of this week. Tee and Jaimie and Michele and probably Pat (and maybe Elizabeth?) are already on my list. If you think you might be down for a read-through and feedback session, let me know. I’m happy to share, and have time to crit other work right now, too. So get in touch! E-mail’s in the sidebar.

Anyway, it’s Tuesday. You know what that means! I’ve found a sliver of SEAS RUN DRY that I can share without significant spoilers. Even better, it relates to a few of my central themes: choice, and parents. Namely, how parents have the potential to fuck you up, Phil Larkin style. Though in this excerpt, they’re not all bad. Irene’s dad is trying, at least.

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Stay tuned tomorrow for Qwery Qwednesday.

I’m getting close to the end of my first draft of SEAS RUN DRY. I’m a little unsure as to how to proceed from here with teasers–there’s a lot of material I could share that would be dangerously spoileriffic. I might start teasing other projects, or maybe a trunked short story or two (any preferences, Gentle Readers?). This week, though, we’re good. This week I’m going to give you some pure, unadulterated, merman ish.

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Happy Tuesday, everybody! This is going to be brief–do you know how tiring mentally preparing oneself for a move is?

(Never mind the fact that I haven’t packed a single item, yet!)

For this week’s teaser, I’m posting the second half of my mermaid folktailtale. You can read the first part here.

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