Category: Status Updates
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Chosen Family
I’m about a quarter of the way through my holiday story featuring Rosie Frankenhoffer and it dawned on me just how completely her personality has taken over the narrative. Like all of my characters, I have a pretty extensive backstory on our favorite millionaire author, one that is surprisingly full of tasty tidbits that generally…
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Christmas in September
I’m still on my self-imposed writing wrist break, but that hasn’t stopped me from thinking about what I want to create once my enforced vacation ends. While much of that rumination has been around the Sean Colbeth book I’m planning on starting next month, an idea for a holiday story featuring Dr. Rosalia Frankenhoffer (a…
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Returning to Windeport
Ah, Fall! Since 2019, late August has become the gateway into autumn for me, mostly because it’s when I begin thinking about the next story in the Sean Colbeth series. If you’ve been following along with me for a while now, you’ll know that his first book — Blindsided — was written during the annual…
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Bliss(fully) Done
As much as I love my characters — and I truly do — it’s been a few books now since I felt so wrapped up in the story, the words just flowed like the proverbial river to the sea. I think the last one to do that was Vengeance; after Suzanne swerved in a direction…
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Geology
I’m about three-quarters of the way through writing Bliss, the next novel in the Vasily Korsokovach Investigates series. It’s been a fun experience so far — the story has moved along at an amazingly good clip, with great combinations of personal moments for Vasily interspersed with an intriguing case that, per usual, keeps him on…
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On Weddings
As is customary for me in April, I’ve begun crafting the next novel in the Vasily Korsokovach series. Tentatively titled Bliss, it picks up literally a day after the final events in Aftermath, and as you might infer from the title, it just happens to be the story where — at long last — Vas…
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Aftermath Completed
I’m just back from an amazing long weekend in Southern California, visiting with friends while taking part in what will be the last Disneyland Half Marathon weekend for a bit; with all of the upcoming park construction, runDisney is pausing events in Anaheim, though they will still take place out in Orlando. As much as…
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New Year, New Books
Not to give out too many of my secrets here, but I usually try to write for my website fairly early in the week on what I like to call “Marketing Monday.” As a (very) small independent author, I wear many hats when it comes to getting the word out about my novels; from crafting…
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Novembers with Sean
It’s kind of ingrained into me now to be up to my eyeballs in writing during the month of November. While NaNoWriMo may no longer exist, the patterns I developed when it was in full swing continue to this day, though I have to admit, the accountability the little word counter their website offered during…
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Coasted
At the risk of paraphrasing a classic song from the late 1970s, I’m back in Arizona after a whirlwind long weekend running through various parks at Walt Disney World. I’m still a bit tired – it will take a few more days to recover from putting that many miles on my body – but the afterglow of…