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The Halfway Point

If you've been following my progress with Stellar Timing, you'll note that I might finish it by the end of next November. I'm proud of what I've done so far, and I have ideas for where I want the story to go next but I'm having...issues. I got distracted. Maggie started talking to me again and since Brennigan is t least 2/3 mute, it's much easier to listen to a character who sings than one who grunts. Royal pain in my backside, that one. Unfortunately Maggie has now gone dark and I'm stuck with two half finished novels. I type, delete, type some more, delete some more. I know what I want to happen but the words aren't coming. Also, edits for River Rats and Hag 2 came in last week and I have a hard time shifting from the critical eye that suspects everything to the one that creates it all, at least for my own work. The non writing life has taken up a healthy chunk of time too. I'm going to be home schooling my boys starting next year. While I

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I'm just a genre bending beeyotch and I need a favor.

Come closer, I need to tell you something... I don't like labels. Or boxes, or molds. Sure they work fine at the local UPS store and there is always room for Jell-O but not for people and art. Writing is art. It's creation, making something outta nothing. My art is about people, no matter how it is labeled. There are elements of romance, interspersed with comic relief, physiological edges that one could cut one's own head off with and overlying it all, the human equation. In strong>Stellar Timing , I take it further still. Sci-Fi / Fantasy with futuristic romance and I'm not sure I'm done world building yet. Who knows what's coming around the next corner? All the pros tell us that newbie writers should pick a genre and stick with it. Or if you really want to do more than one genre, use a pen name for each one. The reason for this is to develop an author brand, name recognition that will tell the reader what they are in for, almost like a promise between autho