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Update 6-13-05 Finished. :) THE LUCKY ONE So there it is. I've come up with a working title, finally, for the current manuscript. It may or may not survive the publishing process, but I like it for this book. The inspiration came from an Alison Krause song which fits the way the heroine views the hero (although it may or may not be the actual truth about him.) After I finished Shadowheart, long before it was on the shelves and there was any controversy among readers about it, I'd already decided that I wanted to do a much lighter book this time. So I've pulled a complete 180--if books have family ties, the current manuscript is a first cousin to Midsummer Moon and a very distant relation of Shadowheart. I wanted to revisit some of the character styles that I've enjoyed in the past--what I think of as "hedgehog humor." It's a regency setting, and the heroine is a wallflower who's been jilted three times. Her greatest desire is to win the silver cup at the agricultural fair with her gigantic prize bull, Hubert. This doesn't turn out to be quite a simple as it would seem. First they have to get Hubert out of the kitchen. I'm saving my weird stuff for later. I elected to write this book without a contract with a publisher--it will be sold when I finish it. I should be done within the next two months, if all goes well. So right now I can't really say much about when it will be on the shelves, but a year or more from now would be a good guess. It seems that writing a book every two years is a comfortable working schedule for me. One each year is just more than I can do, and I believe that's what led to my burn-out. But I think every other year will be just fine for me. I hope my readers will understand. LK 12/20/04
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