I am really, really, really excited for the release of BLACK HEART on April 3rd. It's the final book of the Curse Workers series, full of twists and turns and reveals that I hope you'll be surprised by. This series was a real departure for me and I've had a lot of fun writing them.
I've just come back, two weeks ago, from my annual writing retreat to the mountains of Mexico and am settling back into my real life with some reluctance. Cindy Pon did a great job of blogging the retreat over at her journal (much better than I have done, clearly). The last time I was there, I wrote the last half of BLACK HEART and this time I wrote the middle of COLDEST GIRL IN COLDTOWN. Writing the middle of a book has many inherent frustrations, but I still got a lot done.
Here's the city at night, view from the room where I slept.
The city streets - and yes, it was as warm as it looks. Warm enough to swim in a pool, for instance.
Like this one.
And lots of inspiring (and sometimes strange) happenings around town.
Now that I am home, I have switched brains and am in the middle of editing DOLL BONES. And sometime this week, I will post my "how I wrote" for BLACK HEART, listing the day-by-day word counts that let me finish it.
Here's an excerpt from the very beginning of the very first chapter of BLACK HEART:
My brother Barron sits next to me, sucking the last dregs of black milk tea slush noisily through a wide yellow straw. He’s got the seat of my Benz pushed all the way back and his feet up on the dash, the heels of his pointy black shoes scratching the plastic. With his hair slicked back and his mirrored sunglasses covering his eyes, he looks like a study in villainy.
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