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I just got word that “The 12th Demon: Vampyre Majick” won “Honorable Mention” in the Reader’s Viewer Awards for Religious Fiction. This is essentially third place and I am very excited for this book to win another award! God is so good!
I keep getting the question “when is the third book coming out?”. So, let me update you on the goings on inside my head. “The 11th Demon: Children of the Bloodstone” is in the final rough draft phase. I’m currently rewriting the final draft and I have fallen about three months behind because of my father’s illness. My 94 year old father fell on New Year’s Day and we have had to help him since then. He’s been in and out of the hospital and almost died once from pneumonia. Currently, he is in in-patient rehab at Willis Knighton North Hospital and will be discharged on 3/17/09. We have to decide where he will go after that. He is currently in independent living but has required full time sitters for the last four weeks. We really don’t know where we are going after this with my father. I wish there was book or some guidelines on how to help your ailing parents. But, taking care of him has been an all consuming process in our life. We are in survival mode and all the other extraneous parts of our life have come to a halt. I have also been sick with flu, bronchitis, sinus infection, and viral upper respiratory tract infection since December 10 and only came out of it last week. Writing has been way down on my survival list!
So, this has put my third book behind seriously. I’m hoping to pick up on the rewrite soon and then I’ll be getting with my agent for the process of seeking a publisher.
I just booked a trip to London and France for August as a research trip. My fourth book is set in Europe. The tentative title involves the tenth demon but I haven’t settled on a subtitle. I’ll just let you in on a little information. The opening chapter takes place on an airplane that crashes in the Alps with Jonathan Steel on board. And, for those of you who downloaded my short story from www.12thdemon.com for Christmas 2007 know that something takes place in this story in England, possibly at a certain pagan site with large, upright stones!
We are excited about the trip. We’ll be staying in London for five days and then take the train under the Channel to Paris for three days. Casey, my daughter, is ecstatic because we are planning a day trip to Cardiff, Wales where Doctor Who is shot. If you don’t know about Doctor Who, you’ve probably not watched SciFi Channel for the most popular show in Great Britain. If you do watch Doctor Who, you know that David Tennant is leaving the show. There is a Doctor Who Collective across the street from the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff (under which Torchwood, of course, guards the Rift) in a museum and it features props, costumes, and lots of stuff from the new series. Casey is beside herself with anticipation as she is the ultimate Doctor Who fan. In fact, Sarah Sutton and Casey have shot their own version of the Doctor Who universe with a new character called The Scientist. The trailer is featured on You Tube.
So, say a little prayer for my father and our family. We could use it.
