I was psyched to wake up to yet another sold copy of Heart of the Forest! What is it about that book? LOL while selling the same book many times is better than not selling any books at all, I hope some of the others get sales as well.

Heart of the Forest is a book I wrote in 2006 when we were still living in Oregon, in case I didn’t already say so.

I might have a potential story idea for November NaNo. I still mostly like to have lesbian lead characters as a way of showing my support for equality. So, I was thinking I would have some kind of cop. Maybe she’s a regular street cop, a detective, an FBI agent, whatever. Then there’s this woman working in her department but not as a cop. Maybe she’s some kind of bookkeeper or sketch artist. Could even be some kind of IT person. Anyway, the cop likes her but it doesn’t seem to be mutual. Thinking she could win her over with a little more time spent alone together, she falsely claims that she’s become a target of some kind and is now in danger. After fabricating some kind of psycho that she swears is obsessed with her or out to get specific people in the department (maybe someone she sketched that wasn’t too happy with her talent since it led to their identification and arrest), and because she’s not a trained officer, she needs to be in the Witness Protection Program and offers to hide her out at her place. That’s where she can slowly try to charm the woman, and when that fails to work and the woman demands to be relocated, the real nightmare can begin. Sort of like my 2011 book Renting Ginny but without the fancy escort service.

I was surprised with a small win yesterday when I went to pick up the mail. A small bottle of Olay body wash with a lovely smell of coconut. :-)

If I can make it another 3 weeks without anxiety, that will be the first time getting to 8 weeks after taking 75 every day without becoming anxious. In that case, if each year of my life could have a name, this year would definitely be called Breaking Records.

The ants will be here on Saturday. Perfect! That way we’ll both be home to have fun setting them up.

Rather than go on a half-hour walk outdoors today, I decided to do 15 minutes on the treadmill which is where I’m at right now as I speech-to-text this entry, and then in the evening, I’ll do a 15-minute walk down to the lake and back.