I wanted to say thank you for all the birthday wishes! My daughter took the picture and her pronouncement was ‘a dunce hat for a dunce’ which tells you the amount of respect I get around here!
Another year! I am working on Leviathan now and I have mixed feelings…happy to be finishing the series the way I wanted it to be, but sad because I’ll be (in a way) losing the people I’ve spent so much time with lo these many years. They really do seem like family to me! I’ll miss them.
I guess I should appreciate the editor in that prestigious New York publishing house who said she didn’t know what the word leviathan meant. It gave me the thought to put the word somewhere in every Matthew Corbett book, and in the end it has become extremely important to the series and I think means something in a very surprising way.
So, should I thank her?
NO!
But it’s been so much fun doing this series, and the great thing is I got to do it exactly as I wanted without any hint of interference.
So much for the adventures of the Alabama hick in the hallowed halls of New York publishing!
I did it my way! (There’s a song of that title, I do think)
Anyway, thanks again for the birthday wishes! Pretty soon I’ll talk more about the upcoming release of Seven Shades of Evil, which of course is a departure being shorter material but I hope you enjoy the ongoing trials, tribulations and triumphs of Matthew, Hudson, Katherine, Minx and Berry!
Cheers!
