Time to Celebrate!

 Hey all, Robin here. I'm writing today because it's time to . . . 

What do I have to be so happy about?  Well a few things.

First and foremost, I have some important news about the third book in the Cycle series.  When Michael started writing it, he put a "target date" of May 1st, and his computer gave him an estimate of how many words each day he had to write to finish by then. Some may know that we were in Key West from Late November until Early January, and while I thought that would slow him down a lot (and therefore push that date further back), it turns out he was able to keep to his normal writing routine while in paradise, and his required word count per day actually came down rather than going up.

When we got back to Luray, I started hinting that a REALLY nice birthday gift would be if Book #3 could be finished by April 8th. Since there were only a few months until then, I thought it was a lot to ask, but hey, if you don't tell the one you love what present you want more than anything else then there is no hope of getting it.

Well, Michael did a bit better than April 8th.  As of March 10th, the book is officially finished!! I can't wait to get my hands on it - which leads me to the second reason why I'm here to celebrate.

You see, for the last 35 days, Michael and I have been apart from one another -- separated by about 1,200 miles. There has been times when I was in one place and him another, but in more than forty-six years, I can count on one hand the number of times we've not been "attached at the hip" -- and on those occasions it's rarely been more than a week in duration. Well, in about 34 1/2 hours that will be rectified, and we'll be together once more.  And yeah, I'm counting the hours and grinning from ear to ear just thinking about our reunion.

What has caused this separation? Well, I'll leave that to Michael to explain. I asked him to write a blog post about "recent events," and he sent it to me last night. So, stay tuned. There's more on this tomorrow. But suffice to say I have a lot be happy about.