Today is
the official launch date of LOST UNDER THE LADDER, my first Superstition
Mystery!
I think
it's been available on Kindle and other e-sources before, and copies were sent
out or made available as an online galley via NetGalley for reviews. I received two print copies so far and hope
my author's copies are on their way. And
I was especially excited to see a bunch of print copies at the Sisters in Crime
Los Angeles Chapter meeting this weekend when I was on a panel. They were brought by our usual bookseller,
from Mystery Ink.
As I'm sure
you've no doubt, based on my other recent blogs here, I've been keeping quite
busy promoting the new series, and that promo isn't ending anytime soon.
But meanwhile
Book #2 in the Superstition Mysteries is due at the end of this month. I've finished a reasonable draft and am
letting it sit for a while, and then I'll conduct a final read before I send it
off.
So what am
I doing now? As I said in the heading
for this blog, I'm turning upside down!
Well, not literally. But the next book for which I have a deadline is one of my Harlequin Nocturnes, about Alpha Force--a covert military unit of shapeshifters.
My mind's
been immersed in pet mysteries and superstitions for a while, so that's why
it's needing to make a turn. I'm
rereading the proposal for the first of the two Nocturnes in my three-book
Harlequin contract. (The third is for
another Harlequin Romantic Suspense novel.)
I'm also rereading some of my own Alpha Force books not only to put me
in the shapeshifter mood but to remind me of the characters and tone of that
series.
The tone in
the Harlequin books is different from my mysteries. They're told in third person so I can get
into the hero's and heroine's point of view--including when one of them has
shapeshifted! My mysteries are all first
person in the female protagonist's point of view. The mysteries are cozies so the murders are
not graphic and any love scene is off the page.
I don't get into a lot of gory details in the Nocturnes, either... but
they are romances and do contain love scenes.
So, yes,
I'm turning and switching and changing my mind so it goes in a different
direction.
But that's
part of the fun of writing!
2 comments:
HAPPY LAUNCH DAY!
Thanks, Tracy!
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