"The book finally came in after we left the last town," Andy pointed out. "I haven't gotten the chance to get my hands on it. I know once I do, I'll be done in a few hours, at the most."

"Next town," Belle said with a grin. "Then you can get your fandom in."

Andy grinned.

"I'm looking forward to it," she said. "I'm really looking forward to it."

"I can tell," Belle said with a brief grin. "I have another book to get once we get into town, too. It just came out, and I need to get it. I have to see what trouble Cal got himself into this time."

Andy grinned.

"The spring is always the best time of year for the readers," she said. "Everything from the outside gets shipped in in the spring."

"Not to mention half my authors get new books out in the spring, or just before," Belle said with a happy sigh. "I have like seven books come out in this chunk of a few months' and then they all get shipped here. It's amazing."

"I always have to wait almost a year for the Naomi Novik books to get here," Andy replied. "She publishes in the summer, so I have to wait till the following spring to read them books. Anne Bishop is usually in the spring. Tamora Pierce is erratic, though."

"Yeah, Charlaine Harris gets a new book out every May without fail. The last five books have all come out in May, almost exactly a year apart from each other. I don't understand how she can do that, but that's just me." Belle shrugged.

"I think all the big-names are under contract," Andy said. "Naomi Novik does the same thing, but like in July, and Anne Bishop is in March. I think they have something in their contracts that say they have to get a book out every year."

"It wouldn't surprise me," Belle said with a shrug. "But it's very constant. I don't know if I'd like having a strict timeline like that."

"I don't know if I would, either, but think that's how it works," Andy said.

"I work on too many things at the same time," Belle said with a shrug. "If I worked on one thing, and one thing only, I could have a lot more books finished by now. But I don't like to do that. I like working on four or five things at a time."

"You currently have eight stories you've been working on sporradically," Eclipse cut in.

Andy shook her head.

"I can't do that," she said. "I have to focus on one at a time, or I'll fall out of all of them and never finish. It's happened before."

"Most of them don't get finished," Belle said with a shrug. "But then I also have multiple things to work on. So once I run out of inspiration for one story, I move on to the next one and work on that for a few weeks."

"I focus on one thing until I run out of ideas, and then it kind of sits there," Andy said. "Although my longest piece only got about two weeks' worth of work on it, because it was Novel Writing Month and I ended up having to set it aside for other things."

"Yeah, I know the feeling. I had to put mine aside a lot of the time for school. Although I had the habit of writing down excerpts and various different parts of the story on paper during school and then transfering it over later."

Andy nodded.

"I did that," she said. "I would put ideas together in my head and write notes so I wouldn't forget."

"That was the best part, cause I could work on whatever part I wanted to. I didn't have to work on everything in order." Belle grinned. "I still do that, sometimes."

Andy nodded in agreement.

"I don't do it so much any more, for the sheer fact that I can't carry around a whole laptop and expect it to work in the middle of nowhere," she said. "And I prefer to type rather than handwrite things."

"I still carry around my laptop. Half the time the internet doesn't work, but Word still works well enough for me to use it."

"I wouldn't trust the thing around my group," Andy replied. "Way too much magic, I'm sure. After I wore out my first laptop, I just never got another one because I wasn't sure if it would work right."

"Ah, yeah. I replaced mine once but it still works fairly well, considering. Then again, I tend to shove as many of the magic-users as possible back in their rooms or off a few feet away from me."

"I have enough to get a new laptop, if I wanted to," Andy said. "I might, eventually. But for now, I don't really need one."

"Yeah, no, laptop is essential." Belle shrugged. "Too many stories."

"I managed to save mine," Andy said. "I have a flash drive in one of the pockets of my bag. It has everything on it, and I check every so often to make sure it doesn't spontaneously wipe itself or something." She grinned. "See, I learned things from reading Jim Butcher books."