book deadline update

I haven’t been posting as much as I usually do these days. That’s because I’m smack dab in the middle of the New Book about queens and it feels like just about every one of my brain cells is currently occupied.

Here’s the latest stats:

manuscript deadline: January 2008

word count: about 27,000 words down, probably another 25,000 to go.

queen count: 22 bios written, another 28 to go. On the plus side, I’ve tackled the more complex stories first, such as Cleopatra, Marie Antoinette and Jane Grey — my version of riding a bike up a steep hill, so I can coast down the other side.

So I’m about where I envisioned I’d be in my handy-dandy schedule that I created for this book. The most intense process for this book has been all the research. I haven’t read this much in years! I’d say I’m averaging about 1000 pages a week, maybe more. Right now, I’m reading about Josephine, Napoleon’s empress.

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On the goddess calendar front, thanks to all for your responses! I now have enough information to make an informed decision. I’ll be making an announcement regarding the calendar probably later this week.
(If you haven’t taken the survey yet, I’d still love to hear from you — knowledge is power and all that.)

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