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YAY! I’ve completed a solid first draft of MH.

Actually I finished drafting at the end of last week, but I was still working on a bookmap of the story. Now the bookmap's finished as well-which makes this a double YAY!!

I was inspired to create a bookmap after reading about them on Cheryl Klein’s blog http://chavelaque.blogspot.com/2011/12/behind- ( Read more... )

One of the things about being an antique dealer is that sometimes you buy large lots of stuff--the good and bad. Getting everything cleaned up and sorted is fun, dirty and plain cool-and tiring.  This week, we bought the contents of an attic. It was a mix of furniture, kitchen stuff, barn junk, and boxes and boxes of books.

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