JAYNE BRINGS YOU VICKI LEWIS THOMPSON

Jayne, here to introduce you to a good friend of mine, VICKI LEWIS THOMPSON, who writes very sexy romantic comedy. If you're looking for something a little different with a clever paranormal twist, you're going to love this book!

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First of all, I'm thrilled to be blogging here today! Thanks for giving me a quill and letting me run around with it. When I was a kid I found a gull feather during a family beach vacation and did my level best to fashion it into a quill. The other kids were playing in the sand and splashing in the water, but I was holed up in the cottage making a quill. I had a pot of ink and everything. I finally concluded the original quill makers knew something I didn't, because that feather never worked right.

A computer, however . . . I confess I'll throw over the whole quill concept for a decent laptop. I've been around long enough to remember when we worked on typewriters. Yikes. Yes, Virginia, there really used to be manuscripts created on typewriters. I have two to my credit.

Problem is, computers make us feel invincible. A book in a couple of months? No problemo. Laptops go everywhere—the beach, the mountains, the airplane, the cruise ship (yeah, I've done that). That's how we get into pickles like having a deadline a mere week after the release date of our current book. In the world of electronic creation, anything seems possible.

OVER HEXED came out from NAL October 2. My current WIP, the third book in the series that begins with OVER HEXED, had a due date of October 9. Sure, we're constantly juggling writing and promotion, but to have the two coincide to that degree is . . . insane.

When I agreed to it, I was guilty of magical thinking. Not surprising, considering that my new series, a departure from the nerd books, is a paranormal. When you've seen the publishing world morph from typewriters to the Internet, from handmade bookmarks to book videos on YouTube, magic isn't such a stretch. Anything's possible, including writing the last third of one book while promoting the hell out of the book that's landing on the shelves.

I'll wager that the RWQ crew has dealt with similar issues at one point or another, depending on everyone's personal degree of magical thinking. Maybe it's not only writers who pack our schedules now that we have pagers and BlackBerries and cell phones that do everything but scratch our backs. Do you ever bite off more than you can chew? Make me feel better and fess up!

All the best,
Vicki Lewis Thompson