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I turned in a book proposal today. (To my agent, anyway – if all is well, it will go off to the editor at some point this week and then we’ll see what’s what.) I’m not getting into the specifics of the proposal yet because it’s one of those things. If I talk about it, maybe it gets jinxed. (And I’m not fond of backtracking and having to say, “Sorry, guys.”) Or hell, maybe it doesn’t get jinxed, but things just don’t work out the way I hoped. Or maybe it’s all perfect and I’ll get to make a different sort of announcement in a few months.  Here’s hoping, anyway. But it’s amazing what a relief it is to turn it in. I can start looking at some other projects while knowing I have something in the pipeline – as I’ve said before, an author is usually only as good… Read more