A few pertinent numbers

15: Days until my first book signing

85: Increase, in dollars, in Sailor Boy’s and my rent.

204: fab bookplates Ally Carter turned me onto I can get for $43.20.

72: Days until Secret Society Girl is released

116: Days until Secret Society Girl 2 is due.

250: pages left to write of Secret Society Girl 2, not including the notebook full of a whole chapter of pages that I have somehow misplaced since leaving my job.

2: Hours spent this morning looking for said notebook

4: Cabinets rifled through

2: Closets plundered

3: Purses and other bags emptied onto floor

1: Notebook found.

Priceless.