There’s always a price tag on a trip.

After returning from our 7-day trip to the United Arab Emirates and the Sharjah Book Fair, we had to make up for the lost work time.  We had delivered the manuscript for Star Challengers: Space Station Crisis from the hotel room in Sharjah, but now we had two weeks for Rebecca to do her fine-line copy edit on the 700-page final manuscript of The Key to Creation, the third and final novel in the Terra Incognita trilogy, while I did the first major edit on The Sisterhood of Dune.  Just delivered both manuscripts yesterday. The Key to Creation will be released in June 2011.

I also did a free writing podcast on how to increase your writing productivity.  I’ll be writing up the eleven tips in a series of upcoming blogs, but you can listen to the full writing podcast here as well as a separate Q&A session.

Also, writers, don’t forget about the next Superstars Writing Seminar in January–three days of intensive training in how to be a professional writer.