I am proud to write that The Book is officially finished. We finished the final chapters last night. Tonight, or today rather, starts the next adventure of preparing query emails and letters for agents. I will update as I move forward and learn more.

So, as if over twenty-four hours of Christmas music was not enough for Christmas listening enjoyment, XM now has all of their Christmas stations going in full effect. They have all the sub-genres covered from your traditional carols to the novelty to the normal everyday Christmas music from artists like Mannheim Steamroller, Kenny G, and Mariah Carey. It’s nice to have choices, choices are good, it’s like an auditory 31 Flavors.

The Book will be finished this week, we are so close. The excitement is building, we’re trying to figure out how to celebrate. To me a celebration seems premature, even if it is well deserved, it’s still premature. Technically, I don’t have a book yet, I have a manuscript that really, really hopes to grow up and become a book. I’m guessing that the road to bookdom, yes I just made that word up, may be arduous. But it does speak to some accomplishment and for that I should be happy. So maybe we’ll go grab a slice at The Costco, celebrate small, because even the small accomplishments deserve to be celebrated.

So the hope of finishing Part Three and subsequently the whole book by the weeks end has been met with delays due to Leslie battling a cold this week. We’ve made progress, just not quite what we thought. But the week is not over yet, not technically until Saturday night. So there is hope. We keep plugging along.