Boy, howdy. Would you look at that? I just finished the second book! Would you like to know the title? I bet you'd like to know the title. Well, here it is:

"Other People's Children."

I like to think of it as an updated Jane Austen novel stuck in a food processor with Entertainment Weekly, "School of Rock," and my father-in-law. Early reviews from my friend Jordan (who helped me with the German, danke) and the husband have been positive. Adam called asking if I wanted to tinker a joke and then immeaditately begged off. "I have to, uh, work."

"You're going to read, aren't you?" I asked, with my whole butt wagging (memo to self: can the butt-wagging in the newsroom).

"Uh, yeah." And then he hung up on me.

I'm taking this as a good sign. I'm going to push through a bunch of revisions this weekend and then send it to my agent; with any luck she'll like it and we'll be in business.