This week was as bad as the last. I am however finally registered for the Steampunk Symposium in Cincinnati in March. I will be, in theory, on the author panel as well. Leanne Renee Hieber is working on that for me. I think, in some ways, being half way an introvert and half way an extrovert worked for me here. I’ve been talking to her for a couple of years and she’s doing what most of us should be doing: holding a hand out and helping a fellow author. Even if it falls through I’m content that someone tried to help (also this would be happening in front of Tor.com which could be very interesting).

I’m still in the Hocking Hills this week picking up with Brendan and Josh where we left off last week with These Haunted Hill and they’re going out into the woods after foxes (and I’m finally back to working on this after a bit of a hiatus that went longer than planned)

The leaves from last fall crunched loudly under Brendan’s clumsy feet. He would never make it in Joshua’s world. “And if Big Foot doesn’t like being recorded. I’ve read some crap about them you know. It seems like they do have a violent streak.”

“I don’t want to be famous as the guy who got beaten to death by Big Foots,” Brendan huffed, his eyes darting around, trying to see deeper in the woods. Damn Josh for bringing up the cryptid. Now he was going to be seriously thinking about it even though he knew it was ludicrous. He was in far more danger from a bear or a coyote than he was Sasquatch.

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It’s been another hellish week and depressing too between how badly the sales have been and how the day job thinks it’s going to eliminate a quarter of the programs at the university.

I’m just going to drop this snippet and run. Picking up with These Haunted Hills right where we left off, with Brendan considering going into the woods with Josh to put out wildlife camera.

“I’m putting up some motion sensitive cameras. I just want to see how many foxes are here, what kind of behaviors I can capture, what else is sharing this space, find proof of Big Foot.” Josh smirked over his shoulder when he said that.

Have a little more of these haunted hills

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It was a hard, ugly week of three unexpected deadlines that I had like 4 days to finish things (two of which got kicked back anyhow) plus a weekend to catch up on cover specs and story blurbs that I put off because I had to get these work things done. It’s like punishment for having a really nice weekend last weekend. Which also means I read nothing last week and I apologize. I’ll try to catch up.

More of These Haunted Hills. Josh has shown up at Brendan’s cabin to head out into the woods to put up fox monitoring equipment and wants to know if Brendan will accompany him.

While Brendan sprayed his arms and legs – ah, that was the bad odor – Josh pulled a little device out of the bag. He handed it to Brendan and pointed to his belt to show what Brendan was supposed to do with it. He wished Josh hadn’t done that because it drew his eye to Josh’s hips. Brendan schooled his errant brain. You are not ready. That’s not what you’re here for. You’re just too damn lonely.

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This is Ash Cave where Brendan and Josh first met (Only they met in spring. This is where I was hiking last weekend having fun)

Well I survived the polar vortex (it wasn’t that bad here, enough that they closed the university so bonus days off) and I found out I got my sabbatical for next year so I’m thrilled.

Have a little more of the paranormal WIP These Haunted Hills. I’ve jumped a head a little. Brendan has been researching the haunted hotel’s past (Think H.H. Holmes’s murder palace in Chicago) and he’s been working on draft one of his new book in his lonely cabin in the deep woods. Josh is on his way over to set up equipment in the woods to look for the foxes Brendan heard.

He’d gotten lost in the world he was creating when Joshua’s knock nearly sent him out of his skin. Heart racing, he calmed himself. Ghosts and strange ax murderers lurking in the woods didn’t knock. Okay, ax killers didn’t. Ghosts just might.

Josh stood there in a T-shirt with a surly Batman holding a cup of coffee and the saying ‘not a morning person.’ Brendan would have to remember that. It wasn’t that he was one himself. Josh held a bulging backpack that looked ridiculously heavy. “I couldn’t get any students on short notice. Want to help me put these out in the woods?’

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