Monday Moons!

Here's another one of those "dangling participle" shots.

Dangling participle. Have no idea what that is. Must go look it up.

Hmm, my trusty Guth, Words and Ideas doesn't address it. Must continue the search. . .

Okay, I Googled the dangling participle thing. It's a verb form ending in -ed or -ing that is used to modify a noun, but if the noun isn't a direct antecedent, or at least closest to it, it can be misinterpreted. Here's an example:

"The way his balls were dangling, Logan was afraid he might lose them down the shower drain."

No, wait. That's correct. He IS afraid he might lose them down the drain. Let's try that again.

"Dangling over the shower drain, Logan feared for his balls."

That's it! It infers that Logan, HIMSELF, is dangling over the shower drain, rather than his balls, which we know is NOT the case.

At least, I don't think it is. . . .

Meanwhile, Hero is due in today. One more chance to correct mistakes after this, and then it's done. Sorry it takes so long to get a book in print. It goes without saying that you can read them faster than I can write them, but I suppose that's as it should be. This one wound up being more of a last minute crazy rush because my editor asked me for a new opening scene for it on Thursday. She wanted something along the lines of Fugitive's prologue, and I didn't have that "Eureka" moment for what it would be until I was driving home from Bloomington on Friday afternoon, so I had, basically, two days to finish the copyedits and write a new scene since I had to work last night. I certainly hope she likes it because it was the ONLY thing I could think of that wouldn't cause repercussions throughout the entire book! You'll see what I mean when you read it in August.

Also, she did accept the proposal for Renegade and liked the idea of the "Johnny Appleseed" Zetithian who goes about spreading his seed without a care until he meets that one mousy little woman who steals his heart. Not sure what we'll call that one. I ran the idea of the "horsewhisperer" Zetithian past her, but we didn't have a lot of time to talk, so I'm not sure about that one, but the good news is that there will be three more CSC books coming! Renegade will be out in the Spring of 2011, the next in the Fall of 2011, and the third in the Spring of 2012.

And now, since this is Nancy's 69th birthday, here's a few hunks just for her. Have a good one, Nancy!!!!!!