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Sunday Report Card
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

I’ll recap the last week.

As you can see from the progress bar to the right, I finished Unbroken, then wrote a quick short story for Cleis’s upcoming Girl Crush anthology (which got accepted yesterday—woot!). Unbroken is a very sexy cowboy story about a couple having to get past infidelity. The Cleis thing was a short challenge for myself—just 3000 words about a lesbian affair. And don’t forget about my new release, Eye of the Storm. It’s my 11th for the year!

We had so much rain this past week that the pool cooled from 90 to 80 degrees and I had to drain off the excess water three times. The ground is so saturated, a large apple tree fell and knocked out a portion of the back fence. The deer gorged on the leaves of the tree—so there’s your silver lining.

My daughter and I threw around ideas for a Young Adult novel, and I think I have the opening scene for something really spooky. Will have to do a lot of plotting for this one because there will be a larger cast than I normally deal with and a spookfest I have to nail.

Then I went on a reading binge of intrigue books. At the end, plots started swirling in my head, and I came up with one that I’d love to start writing, but will require research of its own.

So, this next week will be spent in geek-mode, reading through my library of occult books and surfing the net for bomb-making and Homeland Security-related articles. But I can’t spend the whole time reading, so I think I’ll start a new story, something quick and light that I can pound out in between all the hard, boring work.

According to The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Wicca and Witchcraft, August’s moon is the Wyrt moon. WTF does that mean, you ask? Wyrt is the Old English word for plant, so Wyrt moon refers to the Plant or Herb moon. It’s time to collect your magical herbs, time to reap the harvest.

What does that mean in a metaphysical sense? This is the time to reap what you sow. So hope like hell you’ve built some great karma.

6 comments to “Sunday Report Card”

  1. Rasha
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    · August 2nd, 2009 at 11:04 am · Link

    Hey DD happy Sunday,

    Cpngrats on the excellent progress. I would love to read a young adult romance of yours. I know Twilight sparked an increadable debate but I have to admit I loved it. Could not stop reading it until I was done.

    I do not know what that makes me and I do not care 🙂 Have a great weekend and good luck on the research. Hope you do not get caught!!! ha ha



  2. Delilah
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    · August 2nd, 2009 at 12:27 pm · Link

    Rasha! Yeah, I’ll make it on the “watch” list, no doubt about it, with the list of things I need to learn. Not to mention the book I found—The Anarchist Cookbook. You have a great day!



  3. Wesley Nichols
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    · August 2nd, 2009 at 2:34 pm · Link

    What’s the focus of your young adult series going to be?



  4. Delilah
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    · August 2nd, 2009 at 3:03 pm · Link

    Wesley! I can’t say just yet. The story is still in development. But it’s going to be dark, spooky and thrilling!



  5. Wesley Nichols
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    · August 2nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm · Link

    What mythology are you going to be drawing from? Fae mythology, Vampire mythos,, or H. P. lovecraftian mythology?



  6. Delilah Devlin
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    · August 2nd, 2009 at 4:41 pm · Link

    South Texas ghost stories and local folklore. Might do some demonology research too.



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