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After the long winter we've had, it may be difficult to believe that summer is coming. But it's actually already arrived in Houston. And if you were or are at the RT convention in New Orleans, you might have noticed it arrived there too! Technically, the month of May isn't summer, and I actually like May in Houston. It's July and August that stifle me. But this month is a great time for outdoor movies. I took Princess Galen to an outdoor Frozen sing-a-long last weekend. It's also a good time to go bathing suit shopping...wait, no time is a good time for that. Let's skip that one. Let's just say that swimming weather is upon us. It's the perfect time to try new hairstyles designed to keep you cool. Or add to your summer reading list. ;-)    Or enjoy graduations, end-of-year award ceremonies, and plan summer vacations. What do you love about summer? Be warned, if it's bathing suit shopping, we might hate you.

I think I've mentioned before how much I love writing. And one of my favorite things (were I blond, female, and able to sing I could be Julie Andrews -who I fell desperately in love with the first time I saw The Sound of Music, I was 7, she was too old for me but I didn't care), is the process of how odd bits and pieces connect to make a story. For example, at the moment I am working on the next book in The Night Stalkers series. This time my helicopter pilots are headed off to face the scourge of the Persian Gulf, the Somali pirates. This in turn has led me to read about a rather remarkable ship called an amphibious assault ship. It's like a tiny aircraft carrier on steroids. In addition to a few dozen helicopters and some Harrier jets, she can also carry several dozen landing craft in her belly. Whoever thought this one up went way out of the box. So now I have this very cool setting, a female attack helicopter pilot with some serious attitude (she flie...