As far as I’m concerned, September marks the beginning of ghost season, and there’s hardly a more exciting time of year for someone who writes mildly haunted novels. This ghost season I’m planning to be a vendor at Ghost Coast Festival in Galveston at the beautiful League Kempner Mansion on October 12th, and after that I plan to organize an art exhibit in the mansion itself. Since it’s the Island house that inspired Storms of Malhado, my best selling novel to date, you can imagine I’m very excited. And there are some other spooky things in the works as well…
But perhaps what’s most exciting is that I took advantage of a quiet Labor Day weekend in the company of two sweet old ladies of the canine variety (one of them mine), in my friends’ art filled home to reconnect with my current manuscript, Cassandra Brings Disaster. I hadn’t written in months and this definitely took a toll on me, as I’m happiest when I’m working on a book. This weekend I got back into the atmosphere of that story, remembered things about that particular cast of characters, and was able to write 3,000 words. I’m quite happy with that accomplishment.
