Today is the day where Canada and other countries celebrate work through idleness.  Labour Day also marks the unofficial end of summer in our Land of Ice and Snow, even though its official end is almost three weeks away, and warm, wonderful weather has been known to linger well past Thanksgiving in some parts.  And by that, I mean the Canadian Thanksgiving, which falls on the second Monday in October – not the American version which is less than four weeks shy of Christmas!

However, I won’t be idle today, not after taking a break since finishing the first draft of Without Mercy (Siobhan Dunmoore Book 5).  I started revising it a few days ago, and have the first 10 chapters done so far, but my editor won’t be ready to receive the manuscript until much later in September.  That means publication might slip into the first or second week of October.  But published it will be.

And while I was taking a break from Dunmoore #5, I wrote the first three chapters of Hard Strike (Decker’s War Book 7) just to set the tone, since I’ll be jumping into it the moment Dunmoore #5 is with my editor.  Not to forget my forays into starship modelling.  If you’re following my Facebook page (and why wouldn’t you?)  you’ll know I recently completed a model of the Eagle 1 Transporter from the 1970s scifi series Space 1999.  Right now, I’m in the process of completing another starship model from the same series, a Hawk Mk IX, which appeared in only one episode of the first season. But it’s a lovely little space fighter.  I’ll post a picture on Facebook once it’s completed later this week.

But back to celebrating work by not doing anything!