Guess what just came, FedEx?

I'm looking at five copies of this:

The Author hereby grants and assigns to the Publisher the sole and exclusive right to print, publish, distribute and sell ("publish") in the English language in book form, and license others to do so, a work now entitled:

ROCK 'N ROLL NEVER FORGETS

You know what? This will be my eleventh novel published. I've seen ten of these before.

None of them - including the very first one - hit me in the pit of the stomach like this.

It's real. Here comes the KinkaidVerse.

I'll just be over here, alternating between jubilation and hyperventilation.

Nervous Like a Nervous Writer is Nervous, That's What

I've just swallowed hard, and begun the last chapter
of Book of Days.

It's occurred to me that I don't want to finish this
book. I know what's coming, and it means making myself
go work on something else for awhile, and damn it, I
love my shiny pretty dark 'this is the happy ending I
didn't get on the other side of the rainbow of the
Road Not Taken' KinkaidVerse.

I don't *want* to take a break.

Damn it.

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In Which I Realise How Much Writing I've Got Done

A discussion elsewhere prompted some realisations
about how much writing I've got done, and in how long.

I'm just starting the second half of the chapter in
<i>Book of Days</i> that wrapped up the murders on the
band's megatour. The second half is them at the
Grammys, winning thirteen awards and seeding the next
book (<i>Uncle John's Band</i>) for story. Then the
big kaboom at the end of this one, epilogue, and this
one - likely around 93.5K words - will be done.

Between 27 May 2005 and the end of this June, I will
have written seven full-length novels (five Kinkaids
and two Haunted Ballads for St. Martins Press), one
essay ("Truth, in the Middle", in the For keeps
anthology coming out on Seal Press in December), the
first 15K or so words of <i>Seven Women</i>, with
Daymond John, some short stories ("Ghost in the Key of
B" is being looked at), full songs (lyrics and music
both) for both myself and my fictional band,
Blacklight....

I need a nap.

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