I'm doooone!!!

50,000 words!  I will no longer be chained to nanowrimo progress, obsessing about what I need to get done by when, etc.  I can stuff this sucker in a drawer at midnight, and not look at it until next November, thanks.  I won't, of course, but I could.

So my Christmas fic is being read and prepared for posting, and I managed to get a new paragraph onto FAA 14 the other night, so other things are moving along at a clip as well.  Hopefully Fade Away Again is drawing to a close, and soon I will be finished with it so that I can move along to other stories.  Not, of course, the crackhead idea I mentioned to a few of you on Tuesday; that fic goes back into the vault of 'bad ideas that must never be written'.

Other than that, not a whole heck of a lot going on.  And I'll be working late tonight.  I'll probably write more later.

Oh, I just thought of something.  crackers4jenn  made new icons.  Go, see them.

Yes, I really am that big a dork

 I worked on the novel again today.  Because today is the last day of November, after all, and it was a month-long event.  The grand total, validated and everything: 50,779 words.

I'm a fangirl's fangirl

I have two friends on LJ, who not only write such great fic that they are two of my first 'favorite authors' in the BtVS/Angel fandoms, they also publish original fiction together.  One of their books is coming out in wide realease paperback this weekend!  From pepperlandgirl4's LJ:

Chasing Silver is special to eurydice72 and me [pepperlandgirl4] for a lot of reasons. For one thing, it is literally the first novel we ever wrote together. And we love this story so much. We love the characters. I don't know if any other book is so close to my heart.

Here is the blurb on the back of the book:

On the run in Washington, D.C. from a cop who cares more about inflicting pain than serving justice, Remy Capra grabs a handful of coins and jumps out a window. She lands seventy-five years back in time and across a continent in Los Angeles--at the feet of bounty hunter Nathan Pierce.

Remy isn't like any woman he's ever met. She's street-smart and sassy, but she needs help, and Nathan, against his own better judgment, offers it. Danger looms on all sides: Remy might be whisked back to her own time at any moment, a murderous gang lord is after them, and then there's the mystery of the Silver Maiden, a mystical coin with strange powers. Remy and Nathan may have a future--if she can evade her own past, and if they manage to keep alive in the ever-threatening present...

We want to celebrate. And we want everybody to celebrate with us. And in my entire life, I don't think I've ever experienced anything as exciting as knowing that my book is going to be in book stores across the country. I'd love to see some proof of it! So here's the deal: If you see a copy of our beautiful book and take a picture of it and mail me the link to jamiecraigbooks (at) gmail.com, I will send you a book from our Jamie Craig backlist. We'll be running this contest all month. Also, if you post this in your own blog, livejournal, etc, and post a link here you can win another book from our backlist.

To summarize:
1) Take a picture of Chasing Silver in a bookstore
2) Email the picture to me at jamiecraigbooks (at) gmail.com
3) Win a copy of a book!

Or
1) Cross-post this to your own blog/LJ/etc
2) Email me the link at jamiecraigbooks (at) gmail.com
3) Win a copy of a book!

Or
1) Do both
2) Win two books!