*rubs face* I didn’t mean to do this, I really didn’t. But I’d finished all the chores for the day, made word count on Crystal Blade, and it was way too hot and humid to work on jewelry in the garage. With extra time on my hands, I thought, “Hmm … how hard would it be to make a Regency romance cover?”

Not hard at all, as it turns out. And the nice thing about this is, I don’t have to hew to the saturated colors requirement of Regency romance covers because I’m not publishing this one. It’s still pretty (and the more muted color tone is a visual callback to the mid-forties ages of the protagonists), it makes it very clear what the genre is (well, one of the genres, anyway), and now that it’s done I don’t have to worry about it. It’ll be ready once the story is done in a couple of months.

And, um, I also may have cranked out about 3K worth of outline. Hey, I already have the outline for High Tide done, so don’t @ me.