Reader's Corner

August 2007

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The good news is…I finished my book plus the proposal for the next book and both projects were completed on schedule. Woo-hoo! The bad news is…I still haven’t painted my office. But hey, I have legitimate excuses! One, the writing thing. Two, the research thing. And three, the workshop thing.  

Besides writing, I took a research trip this summer down into northern California where I hiked across lava flows, climbed cinder cones, crawled through lava tubes, and checked out the petroglyphs south of Tulelake. Much of what I saw shows up in one form or another in Something Wicked, the book that comes out next summer.

I was shocked at how cold the lava tubes were. Even though the outside temperature was around ninety, the temps hovered in the low forties inside the tunnels. So pity my poor claustrophobic heroine. Not only will she have to deal with her fear of small, enclosed spaces, she’s going to have to put up with the cold, too.

I also participated in two writers’ conferences in the past few months. The first was Boise’s Murder in the Grove conference in June. There I gave my “Blockbusters-R-Us” workshop and participated on a paranormal mystery panel. I got to meet with my agent and catch up with old friends, both at the conference itself and at the Friday night booksigning at Barnes and Noble. Something like thirty authors participated. It was wild, a real book-a-palooza!

Then at the end of September, I gave a workshop at another conference, this one at the historic Owyhee Plaza Hotel in downtown Boise. The Caldwell chapter of the Idaho Writers’ League sponsored the event, and my friend Cheryl Maude co-chaired. She and her friend Angie did a truly excellent job.

As for getting the office painted…I’m thinking maybe Christmas vacation?

Catherine

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