Updates

Not much to say. I'll be moving within the next month, so writing will becoming my main past-time, next to painting, working, unpacking, and hopefully sleeping and eating. This weekend I'll be spending in DC for the Merrils Merrauders reunion my mom wants to go to. Her dad was one, and even though he died since the last one, she was invited and has decided to go. I'm going mainly so I can get some painting done - set up an eisle out and about and get some paintings and sketches. Should be fun. I'm considering turning the parlor of the new house into a gallery for my art, to sell to people who come by. There's a museum right across the street, so there should be plenty of traffic, especially if my art is of the neighborhood and river. Anywho, this has nothing to do with the books..

To get back on track, I'm also thinking about opening Kolareny Chronicles not with the first book of Rhia's beginnings, but rather with something from a little later, and instead save her start of life for later, as a prequel kind of thing. Still not entirely sure. I'm also trying to think of what name I'll use as author... I certainly won't be keeping my maiden name, as it too closely resembles another famous writer's. Perhaps my married name, but that would require knowing who I'll marry or being married by the time I release the first one. Then there was the thought of calling myself just The Author. A friend told me it's too cliche, though I really haven't heard anyone use something like that, not in reality. People in fiction calling themselves that, or the Artist, or something along those lines, but in actuallity, no one's really got the guts enough to be so cocky, or rather to not want the publicity. I'm still not entirely sure I want people to know that I'm the person writing these books. Do I want to do book signings, be interviewed, be made fun of on tv, make my family's life a little more difficult? Then again, if no one knows who I am, there's little chance I'll be able to have an important say if my books are made into movies, which is very important to me. Also, if people know who I am, then the Haven for Orphans I hope to create with the money from the books will get the publicity it will need, for donations and hired help.

We'll see how things go, I guess. For now, I just want to be left alone personally about the books. I'll tell people I'm writing them, but I've done well to restrain telling anyone what they're specifically about. I still have to get to work on naming all of Rhia's kids..that'll be something else.. I think once I get the internet back, probably when I move, I'll really be able to get rolling again. So much to do, and only the rest of my life in which to finish it all. What a bummer.