Peeking out from the Cave

As this is Valentine’s Day weekend, one might assume I would be posting the new Secret Story, “My Phi Beta Kappa Valentine” today. You would be… well, not right, but close.

I’m working on it. I got a little distracted this week by other things (new book! new book! new book!) and it totally slipped my mind. Sorry guys. Stay tuned for more updates.

I’m heading off today to do some location scouting for the aforementioned new book. I love location scouting, and I haven’t gotten a chance to do any since last year’s trip to Rome. This is, um, not as exciting as going to Rome. Though it’s similar, in many ways. (I’m such a tease!) Then I’m having lunch with a friend from my old work, which is super-exciting, because we never see one another anymore! She was one of the first people I told about Rampant, way way back in 2005.

It’s weird, the trajectory that books often take. I came up with the idea for Secret Society GIrl at the very beginning of 2005 (might even have been over the holidays of 2004), and now, four years later, I have three books in that series on the shelves, and a fourth about to come out. Meanwhile, I came up with the idea for Rampant in mid 2005, and it’s only four years later that it will be realized with an actual published novel. though I have friends who have just published books they envisioned twenty years ago, so that must feel even more unusual — to have something living inside their head for that long and only now be up for sharing with the rest of the world. Though a character in Rampant is stolen from a book I wrote in 2003. Does that count?

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