Confession. I haven't done much actual writing this week. Lots of thinking about my story, interesting things bopping around in my head. I've been reading a lot. I'm on a Susanne Brockmann kick. Love those SEALs! This happened because on SANS a while back there was a summer reading list for Internet Security and some of the books sounded so great, I ordered several of them. Spec Ops, by Bill McRaven is fabulous an analysis of what makes a Military Special Operation succeed or not. My head was suddenly swimming with ideas and after I spent some time dwelling on the implications of his theory for InfoSec (they are fairly huge) the ideas kind of crept over into the writing half of my brain where there are percolating yet.

That got me to thinking that I really, really enjoyed Brockman's Flashpoint, a recent read, and so I ordered a bunch of her back list and am happily reading away. One complaint: I wanted to try to read the rest of the SEAL, Troubleshooters books in order but I could not for the life of me figure out what, exactly, that order would be or which books belonged in what series. Yes, I did visit her website, but I have a brain like a sieve and by the time I got back to Amazon, I couldn't remember which ones, plus although I love Amazon mostly, their search results return so much stuff that's got nothing to do with a targeted book search like "Suzanne Brockmann" that it was actually kind of frustrating. So, Amazon, if you are listening, I did not buy as many books as I might otherwise have bought. Problem.

I will get cracking on The Rake now, though, because I need to nail their characters so I can start writing up a proposal for my paranormal with elements of SpecOp theory in it.