Put in a long day at the office yesterday, grading math, lesson planning math, writing math assignments and tests. The idea was to work far enough ahead on my math that I could devote the rest of my work time this week to art. Much thanks to Becka for holding down the fort at home while I mathed out for a while.

I’m three crosswords away from completing my first book of fifty, so I hope to finish up this week. Maybe tomorrow even. I bought a machine that makes notebook-style spiral bound booklets, so hopefully I’ll be printing and binding that book myself by the end of the month, which has been my goal for a while. I hope to have it for sale in time for all my holiday signings and events. Ho ho ho! Puzzles are fun, and books make great stocking stuffers!

I’m looking forward to writing some more Drawing Dead as well. And maybe the next scene or two in me and Becka’s romance novel. But I especially want to work on Drawing Dead, because I’m now three-and-a-half months out from the official release date of Crying Call, and I want to at least have the first draft of Drawing Dead finished by then.

And as I set up as many holiday events as I can (more on those in the next post), I guess it’s time for me to begin setting up my “press junket” for Crying Call. I managed to get on one national and one internationally-popular podcast for Blood Game, but only got covered by a few small newspapers. Not sure what I can arrange this time around, but it’s time to start trying.

I’ll be bugging people to leave reviews as well. Let me apologize for that in advance. Nothing helps authors more than (preferably good) reviews on Amazon, Goodreads, et cetera … but thusfar less than 5% of people who’ve read my books have left reviews anywhere. Help me out, please, if you haven’t already. I hate to pester people, but it’s important! Leave me a review!