Updates, a Delivery & News from the Goldfish Tank

Things are going very well on the writing front. I've reached the half-way mark on Thief, and it's not even the end of July. I'm ahead of schedule *pats self on back*. I have a love/hate relationship with deadlines, but they truly do motivate me.

The DHL guy delivered Oliver and Vincent from Japan. The shipping costs were ridiculous, but well, Japan is pretty far away. Because the shipping costs were so much, I ended up buying a few copies. So sometime in early August I'll do a giveaway for a copy. Sure, it's in Japenese and I doubt many (if any) of you could read the book, but.... It's in Japenese and the cover art is awesome. No illustrations inside, but still cool.

In goldfish related news, kidlet decided to put an ant in the goldfish tank. One of the goldfish tried to eat it, but it got stuck half-way in her mouth (we've decided she's a 'her'). The little ant legs were sticking out of her mouth and everything. Hubby ended up having to get the tweezers, pull the fish out of the tank, and pry the ant out of her mouth, otherwise she likely would have eventually died (she couldn't eat with the ant stuck in her mouth). I was never certain which of the 4 goldfish had eaten the little fish, since I didn't witness the carnage, but I'm thinking she was one of them.

On Saturday I leave for the annual summer family vacation to the beach. A lake beach, but it's a big lake. The wireless connection there leaves much to be desired (translate to 'one sucky bar of signal strength, if I'm lucky), so I likely won't be posting next week. I will be keeping my eyes open for any beach hotties and will report back when I return ;)

Oliver & Vincent go to Japan

Oliver and Vincent have gone to Japan! Loose Id has sold the Japenese language rights to Bound by Deception and Bound to Him. The Japenese publisher bundled both books together in one paperback. The title translates to "Noble Aroma Forbidden Love"...well, at least according to the Google-translated Amazon Japan page.

It's my 1st foreign rights sale for an Ava book, and it's very exciting. I was totally geeked when I found out about it. And the cover....it's full of awesome goodness. Love how Vincent's so commanding. He even has his whip ;)

Oliver & Vincent's jaunt to Japan distracted me for a bit, but I was able to ungeek enough to get some work done on Thief over the weekend. I finished chapter 2 and have eeked into chapter 3. I need to write a chapter a week in order to finish by the end of August. And there's no possibility to push out deadlines as Fortune Hunter and Rogues are also due this year. So I need to keep moving on Thief. If you don't see me around the interwebz much, it's because I'm busily typing away.

In other news, I have learned that goldfish are predators. We took home 4 little fish from kidlet's school at the end of the school year. Not thinking anything of it, we put them in the tank with the 4 big goldfish. Then about a week later, we noticed there were only 2 little fish swimming around and looking rather worried. Um... A day later, only 1 little fish. He was a bit bigger than his little fallen fellows, so we thought he'd be fine. Um....nope. Not fine. We now only have 4 big goldfish in the tank. No little fishes. Kidlet called the goldfish 'jerks'. I agreed with her.