It's been a whirlwind week for me--I "won" NaNoWriMo, turned in two manuscripts in for the 2010 Golden Heart, and learned that my new book, The Devil May Care, won the Historical category in the Golden Pen contest! 

NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) occasionally felt like it was causing irreversible brain damage, but I wrote slightly more than the requisite 50,000 words in 30 days.  It was a powerful, painful, exhilarating exercise in "writing forward," with my inner editor bound and gagged in the garage. 

I thought I'd just collapse for most of December, but now that just about a week has passed, I'm full of creative energy again, back at work on the sequel to A Most Improper Gentleman, and ready to go tear apart The Devil May Care and get it into condition to send to those waiting to read the full. 

Wish me luck!