I’m getting so many lovely emails from people asking when Book Two will be coming along, so I thought I’d share a bit about where it is now. This first picture is where book two was yesterday.

That’s all of the themes, major plot points, character drivers, conflicts, and random ideas that have come from the work I’ve done so far. When I work on a book, I’ll write for awhile, then deconstruct what I’ve written, then reconstruct it. In the photo above, the themes, plot points, etc, are spread randomly across the two tables, and there are some on a trunk and on my futon as well.

This second photo is where the book is tonight.

It’s all the themes, etc, reconstructed and pasted on the French doors that lead to my storage closet. I find it immensely satisfying to stand and look at them and see the ideas pulsing and mixing and morphing and starting to come together. As chaotic as it seems (ok, as chaotic as it is), I can actually start to see the threads connecting all the random thoughts from my head. I really do see them as threads—multicolored, luminescent threads appearing and disappearing as they weave together wolf conflicts and mythology and raven pranks and evolutionary theory and longfangs. Now I’ll a need is a magic wand so I can tap it against all these words and turn them into a book.

So that’s what’s up now. Isn’t it a pretty book?