Crystal Duck!

When I send these out to The Secret Society of Super Reviewers, I've been making the e-mail subject lines TV and movie quotes. I've gotten bored trying to figure out clever puns involving the page number. Or burned out. After six books, it's kind of tiring. If you guys want to play, post your guesses in the comments and I'll post the answer after a couple days if no one guesses it.

Page four is the first appearance of Abby and Charlotte. It's odd, but doing a 24-page story, I get very conscious about when characters appear. The book is one-sixth over and only now does the other star of the book appear? I know it works okay and all, but still there's a weird vibe. At least in my head.

I've also redesigned the exterior of the bookstore. I guess having a sitcom template allows me to do TV series tricks and tweak things after they appear. It's a little more interesting to look at now, and from a production point of view, I can now change the weather outside. You can see snow and Christmas lights in this scene, and the next time I reuse it, I can make it spring or summer. If I need to, I'll design or redesign a couple of the bookstore interiors this issue, too. There are a couple new bookstore angles I'd like to try.

Wow, four pages done already. If I get my Christmas shopping finished this weekend, maybe I can get another page done, too.

In other Love and Capes news, there are some stars that are starting to align on something I've been trying to make happen for a while. I can't talk about it, as with so many of these things, but just wanted to let you know that good things are happening.