Yes, I've been hiding under a rock

Did anyone miss me? The problem is I've had this horrible virus for the entire month of October. Weak and listless with an incredible congestion that racks my body with coughing spasms. Not fun. It also makes me sad because October is my favorite month of the year and I feel like I've pretty much missed it.

So here's the news from my world. I've started a new book called Breath of Heaven. Its a medieval which is a time I've never written about but have always loved. Think Camelot, First Knight, Kingdom of Heaven, Tristan and Isolde, The Wolf and The Dove and the Roselynde Chronicles. All favorites of mine. I am really enjoying it.

I just did my page proofs on Fallen which will be released in Feb. I will be posting the cover and some out takes soon, I promise.

We have a new dog...temporarily. My son's girlfriend, whom we adore, got into grad school a year sooner than planned. So we have her dog, a six month old Siberian Husky. Once more will post some pics. My camera crashed and I'm in the process of getting it fixed. We've been going to obedience school and I have to admit I've learned a lot. Now if I could just get him to stop shedding....

I also just sent out an exciting new scifi project called Prism. I'm really excited about it and hope to be talking about it more soon.

Oh yeah, I'm on Twitter if you want to keep up with my day to day ramblings. I'll try to get back into the swing of things and blog more consistently. I promise.

yes, I know someone famous

Since tonight is the new 90210 night I thought I'd post about Jessica Straup. She plays Erin Silver on the show and my son took her to Prom! Not only that, Drew was Jessica's first boyfriend back in middle school. Somewhere in my archives I have a picture of her when she was 13 and even then you could see she was going to be a great beauty.

We've been following her career since she took off to Hollywood. We squeed when we saw her on the Target commercial, followed by Dentyne Ice and then she showed up on Grey's Anatomy and in movies like The Hills Have Eyes. Now we get to see her every week and she is doing an awesome job with her multi dimensional character.

Yay Jessica. We're so proud of you and can see you are going places.

San Francisco sights!

I did manage to squeeze in a bit of sight seeing while I was in San Francisco. Chinatown was within walking distance and Alyssa Day and I ran off for a few hours to Fisherman's Wharf. I didn't make it to Alcatraz due to the flight screwups so I had to settle for a long distance shot. Alyssa said the tour was wonderful.
We had ice cream and bought T-shirts. Also got a Hard Rock Cafe guitar magnet. I'm determined to get one from every Hard Rock I can.