Teddy Radiator

Ashwinder posted the latest chapter of Lay Me Low (Chapter 12) and I'm ever increasingly grateful to my alpha and betas for getting me to the point where I only had five cavities on this (compared to the 40 I had on TPP for As Morning Falls Chapter 4 - lack of beta, anyone?).

I am still reeling from Sempra's stunning artwork for Chapter 10 and Chapter 11. She has done illustrations for Chapters 2 and 3 as well, and I'm just blown away by her, as always. I often say that our Muses are drinking buddies.

I posted a poem to LJ_Scribe yesterday, but just as I sent it off, I realised it was not an automatic posting, and was subject to the moderator's discretion whether or not it would be posted. It hasn't been, so I guess I didn't make the cut, but the dumb thing is that I wrote it on the posting - I have no other copy of it.

I know, dumb as a very dumb thing. I've written to the mod and asked if she would send it back to me, but if she doesn't, serves me right. I can be such a dope at times. At times, I'm amazed my birth certificate has finished printing.

Chapter 8 of Lay Me Low posted today, and boy, am I relieved! I was so afraid I was going to be rejected because HG/SS kiss - and she's seventeen. In my little AU world, she's about two months into being 18, so please don't hit me. I actually like this chapter a lot, but I've put in a cliff hanger that I don't actually pick back up and resolve until Chapter 10. I don't know if I'm a little evil writer, or if I'm just crap at the whole cliff - hanger concept. Probably a little bit of both!

Absolutely dead day at the shop - very nasty wasty weather predicted, which for the South meant cold air. People stayed in. The entire shopping district was dead. Thankfully, my chef made her famous Chicken/Corn Chowder (yes, I'm going to admit it's great), and it all sold out. She's also making this fabo chocolate/peanut butter cake that makes me happy to be alive, so hopefully tomorrow won't be so bad. If all else fails, we can still QC the cake.

I've had an offer for both an alpha and beta reader, so I'm thrilled beyond belief. Thanks to TalesofSnape and Dhark Charlotte for their kind offers, which I'm going to take up so fast it'll make your head spin. I feel better already.

The Hub's kids are coming in two weeks' time to visit, and my house looks like a cyclone hit it. Then I say to myself: write - clean - write - clean - write - clean. Guess which wins? Yep, I'm a lazy cow. A lazy cow that just loves to write.