I had planned on Ghost Shadows being my next work to edit, but for some reason today I found myself editing Lisa instead. Lisa was actually my first novel. I wrote it over the course of two months back in 1996. Which only proves my writing style is: Write fast, edit slow. (Yes, I wrote a novel in two months and have thus far taken eleven and a half years to edit it. I blame Bush for this.)
In any case, I’m not sure if it’ll be the next book I publish or not, but I ordered some copies (no one else has access to order anything yet so unless I give you one, TOO BAD!) and I’ll hand them out to some of the people I do a writer’s group with to garner their opinions. Perhaps it’ll be my 2008 novel.
Then again, perhaps I’ll get back to Ghost Shadows after all. Either way, it’s nice to have options available. (I could even, theoretically, re-edit The 13th Prime, although I’d much prefer to have my old computer back first so I don’t have to redo all the edits I’ve already done for that.)
Speaking of that, when the police took it in June they said there was a 10 month backlog on forensics. That means they should be done in the beginning of April. At that point, I suppose it will depend on whether or not my computer is used in the trial of my former roommate or not (and no, I don’t know yet whether or not I’ll have to testify either). I still think the best case scenario would be if he just confesses and gets it over with. Second to that, perhaps they can use the evidence they find on my computer to get him to cop a plea. But since this would be his third convinction (not to mention third felony) he really has nothing to lose if he fights it either, so I have a feeling it’ll be another year before I get my comp back. :-(
