Global Warming

Last week it was in the mid seventies here. We got a few scattered showers, and one decent thunder shower. There are still a few flowering trees around. It was lovely.

Today we’re toying with one-hundred degrees. It’s way too early in the year for this crap. I know everywhere else has had its weather issues, and this is small potatoes compared to tornados and flooding. Still, it’s kind of a ping-pong of changes to get used to.

My goal was to write like a madman, and I’ve had to temper that to a degree. We’re going out in the heat to check on our camper. That whole subject is kind of a let down to me. We are still making payments on it, and paying the monthly storage fee for it. We haven’t been able to afford to take it anywhere for three or four years now.

The storage facility contacted us and suggested we put air in the tires. They’re looking a little flat. I’m not looking forward to crawling around on asphalt that could be 120 degrees this afternoon with my little compressor, but it needs to be done. Hope they’ll still take air.

I have to quit a little early today on the writing front, but I was having a great day. It came to about 2600 words, and I know I could have gotten more. This is all about the fallout from the great ectoplasm disaster I created last weekend.

It is a sidebar from the main adventure, but it’s still related. The Hat Series is character driven, and this is such a big event I can’t forget about it and get on with the main event. There will be fallout from such a thing happening, and even if it only influences the setting from here on out it needs to be there.

I wove in some thoughts about what the Eastern Coven would do about this, but left them more as worries. People called in about this to Night Bump Radio, and I even had someone show up from FBI Section 13. I didn’t use the same characters as in Goodbye Old Paint, because they aren’t going to play much of a role. Just a reason for Lizzie to keep looking over her shoulder.

I still want to keep these available to anyone who wants to try a volume without reading the entire series. When parts of Lizzie’s world show up, I have to brief on all of them as appropriate for this story alone. Readers don’t need everything that’s come before, only enough to digest this story. That includes the long-term fans, too.

I’ll have the hat blather about it all later to make sure readers get enough backstory, but not create prerequisite reading from the previous volumes.

In other news, I reached out to Sean Harrington to talk about a cover for “Tracks of Infinity.” I’m hoping to reach an accord on that before I return to work on Monday. Maybe I’ll have something new for all of you this Fall, you know, when the weather returns to simmer instead of deep fry.

That’s it from Death Valley, Idaho. Hope all of you have more moderate conditions and are doing something fun.