Good golly. I just found out that Romantic Times gave Lord Ruin a K.I.S.S. award in their December issue. "For Knights in Shining Silver... A couple of rugged, virile men can light up your life -- men like Quinn created by Patricia Waddell for DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH and Carolyn Jewel's LORD RUIN" Well, congratulations to Patricia, too! How exciting. OK. OK. The Spare is at 81K and I made a change in how SA acts toward OW that I swear makes the pages sizzle. Yippee!! I will be, over the next several days - weeks, be analyzing why this change, which really wasn't hard to do once I thought of it, works so darn well. Anyway, I'm stoked. Right now, I am a very happy writer. Tomorrow, I will be feeling wretched about something that isn't yet right.