My blog tour is over. There were some nice reviews along with the posts that I wrote. But now it's back to finishing going over DANGER LOOMS. It has been slow going because I am rewriting more than I anticipated.
But at the same time, the next Molly book is lingering in the back of my mind. I started doing some research that goes with a new character that Molly encounters where she's working on an investigation for Mason. She is in dire straits because her money is tied up in some senior housing that is going bankrupt. I get mail from those kind of places with offers of free lunches to hear details of the places. That's what they call it, but I know they are sales presentations. I almost considered going to one because of this character, but I found everything I needed online.
It is amazing the information you can get. I read an AARP article with warnings about this type of housing set up and then I read how the place presented what they offered. Mixing the two together, I saw how it was all too possible that the circumstances I put my character in could actually happen.
It was easy to go off on a tangent and start typing in other questions about totally unrelated things. I started thinking about the time before smart phones and Google searches. In those days, it just wasn't an option to get an easy answer to something like what year a song came out or the cast of a long cancelled TV show. How things have changed.
I am amazed how just from remembering part of a lyric and the singer's name, I was able to find a music video I loved in the 80s. But I hit a wall when I was curious about the brand name of a shampoo I used in the past. I remembered the green color and how I liked the smell and even that I stopped buying it when the formula changed. I finally remembered that the brand was some hair stylist's name. I did all kinds of searches (and wasted a lot of time) and got nowhere. I finally gave up and figured it was going to be an unsolved mystery. And then I happened to read about some well known people connected to the Epstein files and when I saw the name of a used to be well known hair stylist, I got the answer about the shampoo. In case you're curious, the brand of the shampoo was Fredrick Fekkai.
I remember hearing a long time ago something about not having to know or remember everything being as important as knowing where to find the information. My phone feels like the magic carpet or maybe it's more like a Geni that as long as I ask the right question gets me what I want to know.
