Pushing on-

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Well it's snowing in Colorado today.  I always find it extremely hard to fight the green-eyed monster of jealousy during this time.  As many of you know, it is mine and Steve's goal to live in Colorado as soon as possible.

I was hoping to be able to buy out my last year of retirement with the City, and get there by 2014, but as reality is setting in, I am seeing that just may be an impossibility.  But I will do what I can to cut off as many months as possible.

So, until I can retire and we are able to move to our dream land, I will push on. 

I am still doing what I can to market Luthor.  I have been pushing Blue Moon, too, as well as The Rise of the Son.  I have also recently gotten all of the Johnny & Joey adventures on eBooks- The Magic Elevator, Back to the Elevator, Return to Animal Land, and the Button That Should Never, Ever, Ever Be Pushed.

I have completed Inanimate Objects, and it is going through a few reading sessions by several people for edits and critques.  That will also be published as an eBook in the first week of January, 2013.  I decided it would be best to wait until January, as I just don't feel comfortable publishing and marketing a book about the devil during the Christmas holidays.

I have begun my next book, Squish-Squash, and will be working my ass off on that for the next few months. 

With any luck, I will have enough books out, and will have created enough of a following, that when it is time to move, I will truely be able to spend my time writing.

I have a lot of work ahead of me, but it's all work for a great goal.  The light at the end of this tunnel is bright and welcoming.  (And at the moment, covered in snow! Grrr) 

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