A lot of novelists who never complete a manuscript and remain unpublished go by the old reliable excuse that time is so hard to come by. Here’s a little revelation for you: time is always hard to come by, even for published authors.

The biggest difference between being published and not being published is finishing projects. That’s it. That’s all. Whether its a phenphedrine review for a health magazine, a short story for Ellery Queen or a novel for the fantasy section… no one is willing to publish an unfinished manuscript.

Sure, even a finished manuscript can be bad and avoid publication… but finding the time to finish a project vastly improves its odds for reaching published status.

It’s enough to make a person turn to diet pills. Or not. The point is, I had to wipe me entire hard drive and do a complete system restore over the weekend. It wasn’t a hard drive failure, this time; just some sort of corrupted system file that was serious enough to require a complete system restore.

Fortunately, my novel’s intact thanks to a very reliable 2GB flash drive. But I’m starting to have some serious hate-on for Windows Vista since it seems like I lose everything on my hard drive about every six months since I made the switch to Vista. So now I can’t wait for System 7, which had BETTER fix all this crap.

I did lose a fair amount of data, but nothing critical this time; I am now more committed than ever, though, to buying a second hard drive that will ghost the content of my primary drive.

Start the buzz, folks! Get those cellular phones a ringing. I am now able to announce confidently that the surprise guest interview I’ve lined up for ScriptSuperhero.com is with no other than New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris.

Harris, whose Sookie Stackhouse novels have been transformed by producer Alan Ball into the HBO hit series True Blood, which began its second season Sunday night, agreed to a long, generous, expansive interview touching on Sookie and her other creations, but mostly focused in the craft of novel writing.

This interview will be published in several parts starting very soon, possibly tonight, and with each part debuting at – when else? – midnight the following night, until we’ve run the gamut with Ms. Harris. Don’t miss out! This is one of the most in-depth interviews ScriptSuperhero may never land with an author of this caliber!