What's Been Going On

This year is whipping by so fast. Unfortunately, I've hit a few speed bumps. A death in the family being the most prominent. It hit us pretty hard. My creative side has slowed down immensely. There's nothing worse than not being able to or feeling like doing the thing you love. That's how I've felt for months with my writing. I was producing for school, but it wasn't my best, or even something I was passionate about. It had gotten pretty bad there for awhile. I was seriously contemplating withdrawing from school and taking the rest of the semester off. Finally, I'm at a point where I'm excited again. Getting back on schedule is tough, but I'm working at it.

So, after all that sad mundane info, here's the fun stuff. I'm a little under a month away from the end of my Junior semester. One more year, and I'm done with school! I've been contemplating grad school, but I think I'll put it off for a bit. I'm doing some pretty cool things in my classes as final projects, one of which is building a xylophone (from scratch, and yes it's as difficult as it sounds) and interviewing Nina Bruhns, Senior Editor at Entangled Publishing. I'm really excited about both.

NEW ORLEANS! So not only am I a few weeks away from being finished with this semester, but I'm headed to NOLA! RT14 is something I've been looking forward to for a year. I've got my schedule mapped out--thanks to the cool phone app the convention provided sponsored by Dreamspinner Press-- and plan to jam pack everything into a hectic five days. There will be more posts on the interesting workshops and panels I attend.

Lastly, I'm formulating/ working on a new series. I've put Deadly Fury to the side, for now, and am working on a spin off of the Deadly 7 world. This series is also set in Chicago, but it follows the Rogue Hunter Society, a group of Hunters protecting humanity. The story runs parallel to D7 and the hero of this story is a character we visit briefly in Deadly Caress. I'm extremely excited about it. More on that in the future.