Current location:	Living Room
Current mood:	amused
Current music:	We Used To Be Friends--Dandy Warhols
Entry tags:	class b series, the other side of eden, theatre

Yes, I am alive.
Oh look, my journal. The thing I haven't posted in in ages. Bad me.

I do have some pretty good excuses. Involving four bouts of pneumonia and having a 6 week run of a play where I was required to wear a dress that was so tight that my cast-mates started calling it "The Jessica Rabbit Dress".

Luckily, I survived all bouts of pneumonia (though halfway through each bout, I was wishing someone would just kill me already) and the full run of the show. Which, considering I spent a total of 27.5 hours doing my hair and make up during the run, is pretty impressive in my view. My Jessica Rabbit dress is safely back in the costume shop, and I am back to writing my butt off.

A lot has happened while I was gone. Including the great Amazon Fail, Query Fail, and Agent Fail. Twitter certainly has brought out some interesting things in our little community. And in 150 characters or less!

The only thing I'm working on now is my Class B series. I (finally) have a (tentative) title for Book 1: The Other Side of Eden. I'm going to post a short summary this week and hopefully a teaser next week. I'm chugging along on the first draft. I'm about to hit the point where I can write everything in order, rather than half and half, which is encouraging.

I'm incredibly excited about this book and this series. I love the characters and I'm having so much fun building the world. I've destroyed 9 major cities in the USA and have come up with a (kind of) natural way to build a city of glass, thus fulfilling my childhood dream to live in the Emerald City. I forgot how much I enjoyed writing urban fantasy--I haven't written any type of fantasy since I was a teenager.

I'll close with a Jessica Rabbit quote, in honor of that dress that I never have to wear again: "I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way."

XOXO
Tess