One of my favorite book covers.

Right now I am working on the last part of Chapter Six of Warm Heart (working title). And my newest book The Watermelon Pump should be published in a week or two. Audible sales continue to do well enough. I’ve had my covid-19 shots, survived the big freeze and water shortage catastrophe Texas had at the end of Winter, and will still wear masks when I leave the house (except when the whole trip will be driving around in my car.)

How about you?

On Twitter I see writers talking about how they can’t write, or that they have revised their work hundreds of times. It isn’t hard to write every day. Just sit down and use the keyboard. There is also such a thing as rewriting too much, editing too much, letting someone else basically cowrite your story. Just don’t.

Been there, done that.

It’s my birthday week and I’ve fallen of the wagon, so to speak. Had a great writing streak going, but slacked off to play. Spent two nights at the Hyatt Lost Pines with our dog in tow, and it was really nice. But there wasn’t where I didn’t write. I did write. It was when we got home.

Monday, I’ll get back to work. I guess everybody deserves a break once in a while. Just be careful that a week of backsliding doesn’t turn into a month, and then several months, and then a year. Cause it can.

I’ll have a new book out the end of the month. Very excited.

http://smashwords.com/books/view/620213 You can navigate from this to my other books.

I really am working on Chapter Four now. On what I’m calling WARM HEART. Sounds like I’m taking a break, though.

We were at the zoo Wednesday, petting the rhinos. Or more accurately, petting the mud that was on the rhinos. Very humbling to be within inches of these animals (they on their side of the enclosure and we on the other).

I’ve used the San Antonio zoo twice as pivotal plot points or settings in two of my stories: the one above (I changed its name to protect the innocent), and BROWN, a mystery novel by G.L. Rix (that’s me).

Did you know that in some books and even in some movies the setting is considered a character? It’s an interesting concept.

Watched the beginning of The Ten Commandments tonight, stopped and watched (slept through about half of it) Hellraiser. Didn’t enjoy any of it. Went back and watched the last three hours of The Ten Commandments . Which I did enjoy. I’ve watched The Ten Commandments many, many times. Strangely enough, it’s still a good movie. I’m getting rid of my DVD of Hellraiser. I’ll read Clive Barker’s The Hellbound Heart once more if I every want to relive that experience.