I thought it would be fun to ask a few authors, editors, publicists, and the like THE question and then post the answers:

What are you doing?

Why do I ask? Well there is a nifty new ‘social project’ type website (think MySpace but much much smaller and not blinky) called Twitter. And it gave me the idea to ask. You see, they ask people all over the world one question and only one:

What are you doing?

[Note: we are not connected in any way to Twitter. I am just a silly duckie. We do have a Twitter site that is updated every time we post at this blog and that displays on the public timeline .]

The Answers:

Dorchester Editor Leah Hultenschmidt:

I’m editing Laura Drewry’s Western historical THE DEVIL’S DAUGHTER and oohing and ah’ing over cover art for Michelle Maddox’s June Shomi title, COUNTDOWN.

Author Jaci Burton:

Writing a Samhain novella, emailing with my agent over revisions to a book, and sorta hyperventilating over my to-do list.

Kensington Editor Kate Duffy:

Working on tip sheets (say that three times fast) for an upcoming sales meeting – info for the sales department on my trade and hardcover books, Sept-Dec. 08.

Author Pamela Clare (RIDE THE FIRE and SURRENDER):

I am working on the sequel to SURRENDER – titled UNTAMED – and dabbling with my first erotic novel, all while helping my son apply for colleges. 🙂

Author Jill Shalvis:

I am waiting with baited breath to see if you liked THE TROUBLE WITH PARADISE – if you didn’t, send cookies with the bad news please.

Harlequin Author Jo Leigh:

I’m on page 10 of my new Blaze HAVE MERCY.

MOONGAZER Author Marianne Mancusi:

Launching a nationally syndicated television show called “Better TV,” while revising her first hardcover novel for Dutton Children’s and leveling her World of Warcraft Draneai Shaman, while trying to maintain a teensy bit of social life on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where she lives.

Harlequin Historical Author Cheryl St.John

I am currently working on a Christmas novella for Harlequin Historical’s western ’08 anthology and promoting the release of my ’07 novella in A WESTERN WINTER WONDERLAND.

Author Lucy Monroe

I’m working on my next HP and promoting my next historical, ANNABELLE’S COURTSHIP, from Samhain. 🙂

Author Meljean Brook

Researching Philadelphia neighborhoods for a novella I’m revising and tweaking, and writing the proposal for DEMON BOUND, which promises to be way too much fun.

Author Monica McCarty

I’ve been away from my computer all day being a good girl and working on the final few chapters of my next book, Book #1 of another Scottish trilogy.

Author Jami Alden

I am trying to finish the first draft of my first Brava romantic suspense while trying to potty train my two year old and sleep train my three month old.

Author Dionne Galace

I am finishing up the edits on a cat story I wrote (which BFF Shuzluva is scrubbing clean for me) and outlining a zombie urban fantasy one-shot that I’m collaborating on with a friend.

Author EC Sheedy

I just got home from a trip to Tacoma (a three hour drive and a two hour ferry ride) where I had lunch with a readers’ group, forty or so terrific women, who’ve been meeting once a month for over thirteen years, and we had a fabulous time, and if that’s a run on sentence it’s because I’m too tired to punctuate . . . 🙂

Author Sherry Thomas

I just finished a majorly hot love scene in Delicious. So now my characters are going to chat about buttsecks–hehe, not. While I try to figure out the content of the earthshaking conversation they are going to have–oh, yeah, I see, it has to be in his point of view–I’m going to eat meat buns and porridge for breakfast.

So what about you? What are YOU Doing? Just a sentence. It is suppose to be under 140 characters, but hey, we are easy. What are you editing? What are you writing? What are you outlining? What are you reading? What are you promoting? Whatever you are doing (uh that you would want posted on the blog… but hey we have no rating so you go with your badself 🙂 ). Put it in the comments, email us, smoke signals, morse code, semaphor. Your choice.

Tell us… What are YOU doing?