Okay, I’m not totally headless because something was there when I combed my hair and brushed my teeth.  I started putting on some makeup only to say, “screw that” and plop back down in front of the computer.

I don’t know where this cold/flu/malaise/whatever came from but I don’t like it, not one bit!  Dragging along for going on two weeks is more than enough thank you very much.  I want to write, darn it.  I’m about 3/4 of the way through the rough draft of my current book for Aphrodisia and have this sneaky suspicion the plot will evaporate if I don’t wrap up the loose ends asap.  In the meantime, my IQ is topping out in the 80s and much of the time is way below that.  Day before yesterday I took my mother out to lunch and a haircut and by the time we were done I felt as if I’d run a marathon.  Took a nap, fixed dinner, and was asleep by 7.  Didn’t wake up until 6 the next morning. 

Yesterday was better and I belted out 3000 words in addition to giving the VA a piece of my mind (long story with no end in sight)  Today however isn’t shaping up to be so hot.  My lips are numb, my fingers ditto.  And lets don’t even get started on my brain.  I have until 3:30 to write and should be limbering up my fingers and chomping at the bit but no, i want to hold down the couch and watch morning TV which I never do.  And now the neighborhood get-together that sounded like so much fun is looking like a mountain to climb.

So enough already with this junk I have. 

Some news to share before I fade off.  A small Slovok publisher wants to buy foreign rights to a romance I wrote years ago.  Nothing like a little found money.  The novella I sold to Ellora’s Cave has been kicked up which means it’ll be published June 20, four days before Going Down comes out from Aphrodisia.  All I have to do is figure out how to work the promotion..  No pub date for the novella Loose ID bought but I’ve completed the first round of edits and put in the cover request.  And I can’t remember if I mentioned that I’m going to be in the next Aphrodisia Cowboy anthology.  That’s #3 for me.  Plan to write that after I get this book I’m working on out of the way–except I kinda promised my EC editor a quickie 

So, getting ready to sign off, how about some suggestions on how to clear my head?  I don’t do antihistamines because they wrap me in cotton.  Lots of fluids I’m already doing.  Rest?  My body’s all for that.

Vonna the pathetic   www.VonnaHarper.com