We made it safely to our first stop on the road west–the lovely St. Louis.  Yesterday we defied the summer heat and chilled with our black and white feathered friends at the St. Louis zoo,

Penguin Chorus

then finished up an evening out with family at the one and only spot for truly divine frozen custard–Ted Drews.

A relatively busy night, from the look of the lines, but we were grateful for the few minutes in line.  It takes more than a minute to decide between heath bar with oreo, the aptly-named Cardinal Sin, or some other combo of deliciousness.

And in and around all the fun and driving, I continue to work on 13 Demon Days.  Somewhere in Tennessee I had a breakthrough, and figured out how to transition the new pacing I’m implementing so it flows naturally into the rest of the novel.  It looks like I’m not the only one reconstructing a story and wondering which scenes need to be moved and which will have to go.  There’s a fun post by Bryan Russell on agent Nathan Branford’s blog that sums it up well.

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