Forward, Forward, Forward!

 Planning, planning, planning. Fiorella and her friends and relatives are going over to the old house early tomorrow morning and clearing out the garage and heavy furniture as much as they can. It's count-down time--we're planning to be in the house next week. This will be the sixth house your girl has lived in. She was born in Akron and grew up in Waco. Then, after her marriage, she lived in four different homes in Austin before moving to Georgetown--and now is going back to Austin. See ya!

In the meantime, Fio is wrestling around with tuning the TV in her assigned guest room. It's so embarrassing to have to call in Daughter-in-law to help your girl find her favorites--you know which they are--Midsomer Murders and Miss Fischer Mysteries. It isn't that Fiorella likes blood and guts so much as that the British shows take her out of her own worries for a while.

Well, that did it. Fio just ate the last of the chocolate bars she had hidden under a tablet in the drawer of her bedside table. She'd like to say she's given sweets up for good, but knows that as soon as possible, she'll be stopping in at a store to replenish her supply. (The wonder is that despite Fio's sweethtooth, her teeth themselves are almost perfect.)

Fio is holding back on her excitement, but getting this new house will put her a couple of steps closer to finishing off her Lolly book. Remember Lolly, Jase's daughter? The heroine who never made it into print? Publishing has changed a lot since your girl made her first sales though, but she has writing friends who will catch her up.

QUESTION: But Fio, why would other writers help you? Aren't you all in competition with each other?

ANSWER: Romance writers--maybe all writers--are quite supportive of each other, maybe because we are all a little crazy. Why else would we be driven to make up outrageous stories?