So it's not quite spring yet, but I'm finally emerging from my post-Christmas hibernation. I haven't been idle, however. During my self-imposed solitude and social media blackout, I officially finished the first draft of book three in my Haunted Hollow series. Actually, it's a novella and a novel. But more about that later.

Who else out there thinks spring can't come too soon? And what do you like to do during the cold, wet winter months to keep from getting cabin fever?

Speaking of coming out of hibernation, I discovered inspiration for a new character in the "bear doctors" of the Pomo Indians who populated Northern California for ten thousand years before the arrival of white Europeans. He'll be bringing a new perspective and a new mythology to the world of the Haunted Hollow. 

But this new character needs a name.