Just a few more days now until Bygones is available. How about a handful of tidbits to stew over while you wait?
16. In-n-Out still rocks
It wouldn’t be a Vasily Korsokovach novel without an appearance of his favorite junk food. The author may have made his own trip to see if he remembered how the hamburgers taste, given how this book was written during the height of the pandemic. (I did.)
17. The retention pond Vasily jogs around in Rancho Linda is pretty deep.
Deep enough to hide all sorts of secrets, though nothing a trained investigator can’t ultimately surface.
18. Happiness is where you find it.
Vas seems to have finally discovered his place in the world, and the right someone he can share it with. That doesn’t mean he’s stopped caring for Sean — far from it. While it took longer than he thought it would, Vas realizes it was worth all of the pain and agony to finally get there.
19. Three’s Company?
Not according to Alejandro, who has a rather visceral reaction to a new arrival in Vasily’s life. Maybe that Vasily emotional roller coaster isn’t quite over yet.
20. It’s not over.
Two more books are waiting in the wings behind Bygones: Focus and Requiem. I don’t have publication dates scheduled quite yet, so stay tuned to this blog for any announcements on that front. Requiem is already done and has entered the editing phase; I’ve just begun writing Focus, and if past is prologue, that won’t be completed until late September. A general rule of thumb for me is that most of my novels are published between six to twelve months after I write them — it takes time to get them polished — so that would likely mean Focus will appear next summer.
All right – that’s all the tidbits I’m going to do! I truly hope you enjoy Bygones; let me know your thoughts in the comments on this post or reach out through the site.