Ink Exchange, by Melissa Marr.
HarperTeen, hardcover
336 pages, urban fantasy/dark fairy tale/young adult romance
Currently in print

( What happens when you return to the land of Melissa Marr's Faerie to see how things are continuing, with a healthy dose of darkness, betrayal, tattooing, and the consequences of choices? You get this. And this is worth reading. Click for more, and beware unavoidable spoilers for WICKED LOVELY, which you should read first.Collapse )

Current stats:

Words: 1,222.
Total words: 11,260.
Reason for stopping: if I don't go to sleep, I am literally going to pass out.
Music: random things, including a small child telling me about her day.
Lilly: presumably back in Concord, unless she's gone looking for me.

I'm at David and Michelle's for the weekend, but would have felt bad if I didn't at least pretend to do some work on The Mourning Edition. So I pretended my way through a thousand words and a big chunk of the current chapter, which is, y'know, pretty impressive, if a little bit unnerving. I should pretend more often.

Please note that as of this entry, The Mourning Edition has its own icon. That means it's a real book. Also, that means I got my Photoshop working for a little while today. All things come with time and with grace. (I have no idea what I'm going to use as a Discount Armageddon icon, I really don't.)

Progress is pleasing unto me, and I really like where this book seems to be going. We're still in setup, but it's very solid and substantial setup, and it makes me happy. Also, I got to map the driving route between Birds Landing and Berkeley, and that confused Google Maps to no end. Life is good.

Zombies improve everything.