November is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). I decided to sign up this year although I have no idea whether I'll really write a novel this month. The goal is for everyone to write 50,000 words. Which works out to approximately 200 pages or about 7 pages a day (including weekends). Since I'm trying to finish my current book I don't know when I'll be able to start and I don't have a clue what I'll write about. Hey, maybe this wasn't my best idea yet. At least I did get 10 pages written today (although on the current book, not the NaNoWriMo one). Karen didn't write at all and she signed up as well.

I hit page 400 in Remove from Circulation--which should mean that the book is done. The only problem is, it isn't. Sophia and Ryan made it the rest of the way up the stairs and are now in a gunfight with Watson. So, we're making progress from a story perspective as well as in page count. I've got to resolve this fight, then do a wrapup on what's going to happen to Sophia and Ryan next. After all, the police do have shoot to kill orders out against them.

I finished DEVIL MAY CRY by Sherrilyn Kenyon. There's a lot to like in this book but I didn't get into the characters and, frankly, when you don't like the characters it doesn't really matter how good the worldbuilding is, the setting and description are, or how hot the sex might be. Still, the book held my interest enough that I finished it--which puts it ahead of about half the books I start. My review was definitely mixed. Here's my review: www.booksforabuck.com/rompages/rom_2007/devil_may_cry.html. Now I'm reading A KILLER'S KISS by William Lashner. It's the second book I've read by Lashner and I loved the first (my review of PAST DUE is here: http://www.booksforabuck.com/mystery/mys_04/past_due.html . So far KISS is also engrossing.

Speaking of engrossing mysteries, I'm going to make THE DEAD STAY DEAD by Anthony Perham the www.BooksForABuck.com book of the day. The second in Perham's English Police Detective series, THE DEAD STAY DEAD features disappearing or inexplicably dead policemen. It might be ghosts--there's a haunted house--but Inspector Sean Crow thinks the Dead Stay Dead and that living people are somehow responsible. The complete mystery is only $3.99. Learn more, read the excerpt, or buy the eNovel here: www.booksforabuck.com/mystery/mys_07/dead_stay_dead.html. (Available in HTML, Adobe Acrobat PDF, Palm DOC, and Microsoft Reader formats). Here's the cover (cover design by Karen Leabo):

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