Hey!

Remember the last time I said: "Oh shit, I really can't stay up all night anymore?" I do. And I was editing then, too.

Two days later, with a start-point of over 135,000 words, I've managed to get the manuscript down to roughly 124,000. Personally, I think it could stand to go down farther, but...this morning was the deadline, so it'll just have to do. In the meantime, it's back to "The Shrines", and Chapter Four.

Now, to make and send my--God, what do you call that? Receipt? My brain feels bruised.

Sooooo tiiiiired.

New Review

Fine Book of Tongues review from Sean McLachlan, aka MidListWriter on Blogspot, here (http://midlistwriter.blogspot.com/2010/04/review-book-of-tongues.html). Being a Civil War buff and historian, he rightly points out my blood-drunk gay porno horse opera is riddled with historical inaccuracies; in my defense, I can only claim that I did actually write a whole Apologia pointing this same sad fact out in fair detail, which hopefully will eventually work itself into the paperback version.;)

Otherwise, am now very securely in that floaty, drunken-feeling portion of the Day After the (Mainly Sleepless) Night Before. Still hammering here and there on "The Shrines". I guess I'll just go on that way 'til I fall over; usually works.