In spite of this gappy space between posts, I have been making progress on PIT-related stuff.

I recieved my books (FINALLY) from the publisher, so I'm trying to get them out to all my Betas. I'm also trying to get some local stores to carry the titles, or at least PIT5. These are current, ongoing works in progress.

I've been working on PIT6. Not as much as I'd like to have been doing, but a portion of the last few weeks involved Thanksgiving and family from out of state being in town, so that definitely curtailed any progress. In fact, I've been on the same chapter for...like, a month. I'm trying to reestablish a habit of writing an hour or so every day instead of an hour or so every week. Once I build habits, they tend to stick, but you have to ride out that week or two first when you're trying to get assimilated to new things.

I'm also thinking of tweaking the (real) location I put PIT6 in, mostly because I find trying to use a real town's history is a bloody pain in the ass. Fictional towns are so much better, unless you intend to use a (well documented) historical city. I can't tell you how many hours I spent researching 1700's Kingston and 1850s Boston for brief scenes in other PIT stories.... So this will require some minor backtracking on my part to modify that, but nothing seriously major. As one who did major, serious, hardcore research on the fictional Hill Valley, California of 1885 -- from Back to the Future Part III -- I may wind up "using" some of the interior layouts of some of the buildings for my fictional town. (I doubt anyone would notice this, though.) I've actually got photos of the bare sets from the Western town they built in Sonora, CA (and which has since been destroyed by, ironically, a bolt of lightning sparking a fire) so that would be fabulous for descriptive purposes.

In the meantime, if you are looking for holiday gifts, might I suggest any and all of the books??? ;-)

-K