1. Yes, I really am as organized as I appear, largely because I live my life in a constant whirl of checklists, to do lists, and lists detailing my lists. I am, sad to say, really the kind of person who makes lists of her pending lists so as to avoid accidental dropping of important things. This would be less bothersome to the world around me if I didn't forget things anyway. Ah, well.

2. Part of my list-making obsession stems from the fact that I have one of the worst short-term memories in the universe. It's actually borderline impressive. I am fully capable of looking at someone I was talking to an hour ago, smiling brightly, and introducing myself. Consequentially, I write everything down to avoid embarrassing situations in public places.

3. I really do read as much as the book review posts imply. Actually, I read substantially more than that. It's not just my 'only review books you like' policy; it's the fact that if I reviewed every book I read and enjoy, this really would become the all-reviews, all-the-time channel. Since it's regularly in danger of becoming the all-word count, all-the-time channel, I'm avoiding that.

4. At present, I am actively writing two books (The Mourning Edition and Discount Armageddon), rewriting two books (Late Eclipses of the Sun and Lycanthropy and Other Personal Issues), and waiting for final edits on two books (An Artificial Night and Newsflesh). There isn't an intentional tropism towards twos around here, it just happens.

5. Like many authors, I am a cat person. More specifically, however, I am a Siamese cat person. Siamese cats are not like normal cats. Siamese cats are the megalomaniacal mad scientists of the cat world. It's entirely possible that Lilly will one day be spotted atop a national monument, cackling and calling down bolts of lightning. I'm basically okay with that.

6. I watch a lot of television. I mean I watch a lot of television. During the summer, it's mostly bad horror movies on the Science-Fiction Channel and random reality shows. During the regular TV season, it's all over the map. Since I process edits and ink my comic strip while watching television, I don't feel the time is entirely wasted, but it's fun to watch people cringe when I say I follow America's Next Top Model.

7. Besides, it's all research. Verity 'Very' Price (the main character of Discount Armageddon and Midnight Blue-Light Special) was a contestant on Dance Your Pants Off, the reality show where they search for America's most favorite dance person. Yes. She's a demon hunter who fights through the awesome power of ballroom dance. Fear her.

8. I am basically incapable of writing books that don't have sequels. I've managed a couple of duologies, but at the end of the day, I'm a trilogy-or-more kind of a girl, even when I try not to be. This gets faintly annoying at times. At least I enjoy them, which is a good thing.

9. As far as I know, I'm the only person to ever write super-peppy Schoolhouse Rock about the epidemiology of the Black Death in Europe. As 'only person ever to...' labels go, this one strikes me as being needlessly weird.

10. I have personified my muse, because that gives me someone to get mad at. Her name is Jane.

I love ten things lists.

Current stats:

Words: 1,115.
Total words: 1,115.
Reason for stopping: I had to go to my epidural.
Music: the Broadway revival of Little Shop of Horrors.
Lilly: sacked out in my lap.

Please note the lovely new icon. What does the lovely new icon mean? The lovely new icon means there's a lovely new book in the neighborhood, kicking ass and taking names. And doing it in high heels roughly half the time, mind you. Meet Verity 'Very' Price, the eldest girl in the current generation of a family of cryptozoologists working to protect the cryptids of North America from mankind -- and mankind from them.

Discount Armageddon is the first of two books to feature Verity. The second is Midnight Blue-Light Special, but that is, thankfully, some distance in the future. Anyway, a thousand words is a drop in the bucket, but it's a drop that gives me something to work from, and more, it's letting me test my footing in this new universe. The only people on-screen so far are Very and the mice, and that's more than enough for the moment. Besides, the mice can take up a lot of screen.

Verity Price. Kicking cryptid ass with ballroom dance so you don't have to.