It's been a bit since I hopped on here to say something that's probably worth nothing, but I've been busy.

There was Memorial Day, with the requisite cooking out and such. Then I had family come to town, and spent some futile time trying to get my lovely Magsters into the new dog groom for a bath and toenail clip (First opening -- TWO WEEKS!)

And, oh, yeah, I spent hours with my butt planted in the chair finishing Devil's Ball, the third in the Shadow Ancient series from Resplendence Publishing. And I realized two things: I love the Ancient world, and I think I'm going to have to do book number four. And after being immersed in their world so long, I'm ready to write something completely different right now.

That completely different something is (I hope!) a funny little book about ... well, I'm still working on all that. But the major elements are these: Mya, raised on Earth's sister planet Geo, came here for boarding school, got married, had a child, got divorced and has her own business. When her mother calls her back in a panic, she learns that when she was just a child, her father signed a marriage contract that's still valid.

So now she's supposed to marry Relende, a whoppin' gorgeous, big, dedicated warrior who doesn't want to marry any woman from her clan, and most especially not her.

Lucky for them, there's a loophole -- if one of them kills the other, the contract is void.

Now you'll have to excuse me. I've got to dig out my broad axe. Mya needs to borrow it; she has a fight coming up.