Hey, check it out -- I have two recipes in the Cake Walk calendar, a charity project organized by Mindy Klasky. The link takes you to a Cafe Press store; here's a bit o' description:

This Cafe Press store features real recipes from the imaginary bakery -- all recipes were provided by leading authors, including Julie Czerneda, Kelly Gay, Laura Anne Gilman, Mindy Klasky, Seanan McGuire, Saundra Mitchell, Mary Stanton, and Jennifer Stevenson. All proceeds from sales of all merchandise benefit First Book, a nonprofit organization with a single mission: to give children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books.

So, y'know, buy a calendar, get some awesome recipes (I submitted two of them!), help kids get access to books -- everybody wins! My recipes are awesome, by the way, and involve the use of a cathartic hammer. You can't get much better than an excuse to smash things and eat tasty treats.

Life is good.

Current stats:

Words: 4,760.
Total words: 28,570.
Reason for stopping: chapter five and book one are finished.
Music: oddly enough, lots of folk music.
Lilly: queen of everything atop her cat tree.

As predicted, the end of chapter five of The Mourning Edition was also the end of Book I! Woo-hoo! So now I can honestly answer "How's the book going?" with "Oh, I finished it yesterday, I'm working on the next one now." (This is fun because of the looks it makes people give me. I adore confusing my friends.) Also, the end of Book I brings us past the magical hundred-page mark. Yes! This book is now over a hundred pages. The magical stamp of 'I can be a real novel when I grow up' has been applied. Since Newsflesh came in at just under 150,000 words, I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and say that I am now 20% of the way to 'done.' So that doesn't suck, either.

(Book I, for the curious, was titled 'Point of Infection.' Book II is titled 'Vectors and Victims.' Telling you the titles of the various books really doesn't give anything away unless you have the actual text to provide some much-needed context. Because I'm just sneaky that way. Also, zombies.)

The Newsflesh/Mourning Edition universe is an incredibly fun one to play around in, even though each individual book has a body count that basically equals what I've managed in five volumes of Toby. (The series really needs a better title. I usually just call them 'the Mason books' and figure people know what I'm talking about.)

Zombies.

Yay.