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So, my brain's always working. Brian can fall asleep within seconds of his head hitting the pillow and he's surprised that I can't. But my brain needs time to wind down. Within moments of waking in the morning, my brain's already thrumming away, generating new thoughts.

Such was the case last night. Now, it's not that I don't have plenty of writing-related ideas already. But my mind is the mind of a storyteller. Last night, an idea came to me, and I spent a good portion of time brainstorming. While I've never been a particularly huge fan of the vampire genre, this idea is a vampire story. Though I can't say I've read a vast variety of vampire books, I'm thinking that my idea is kind of unique. With a genre that's so popular, coming up with an idea that stands out can somtimes be a challenge.

The problem now becomes the question of when. When do I write this book? I'm still working on Seeking (book two in the Naturals trilogy). So, I'd like to finish this series before I divert my attention. But, after this series, I'd been planning to revise an old, old MS--The Crystal Society, which I originally finished back in the ninth grade. But now I'm thinking I might bump that project in favor of the vampire story (tentatively titled Hunger--too on the nose?).

But, I guess it's better to have too many ideas than too few, right? I just wish I were faster at getting things written! Like a recently told a friend, if I could choose an offbeat super power, it would be the ability to touch a keyboard and cause a book to appear in its completed form on the computer. If only, right?

and so it begins

So, last night at around 10 pm, I finally submitted Awaking for publication for Amazon (Kindle), Barnes and Noble (Nook), and Smashwords (multiple platforms). It's already available on Smashwords (which happens immediately) and on Amazon. I'm hoping it'll be up on Barnes and Noble by day's end.

Let's just say I'm very excited.

The only thing that is not ready is the print version of the book. I'm hoping that in the next week or so, that will be available through Amazon's CreateSpace.

Now that I'm not thinking about Awaking anymore, I can focus all my attention on Seeking, which, if I'm honest, has been slow-going. Too many things going on in my head, I guess. But now that one big thing is taken care of, it'll be much easier to focus on book two.

I've got the whole day ahead of me with nowhere to go and nothing to do, so I'm hoping to get a bunch written. If Rachel published another book before me...

We'll see how it goes.

for real, now

I've gotten the edits back on Awaking, and I've had the proof copy for quite some time. My goals for today are to get through the proof copy, make the edits to the appropriate documents, and submit Awaking for publication.

I'll let you know if I succeed.