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| The setting for the first three Malone mysteries |
Looking back:
In
June of 2017, Post Mortem Press published Marnie Malone, my fifth Malone
mystery, completing the series.Writing those books has been a labor of love but. . . .
Looking forward:
A new year is like the blank pages of a yet-to-be-completed mystery novel. It will be full of surprises. As the days (pages) go by, there will be many twists and turns. Some difficult situations to overcome. Lots of challenges but also so many possibilities.
I'm currently writing a new book, another mystery
novel, which I started last year. It’s very different from the books in my Malone mystery series. It's a cozy, I’m writing it in the first person - something I’ve wanted to do for a
long time - and I’m having a lot of fun with it.
Here's an overview of Secrets in Storyville:
Here's an overview of Secrets in Storyville:
Kate Morgan, a single mother, lives in the small town of Storyville, Ohio where she grew up. A want-to-be writer, she works as a sales clerk in the town’s only department store doing what she describes as “a job a monkey could do.” Although she’s bored with her job, she won’t allow herself to consider moving to the city where there are more job opportunities because she relies on her parents’ help in raising ten-year-old Mandy.
I hope to finish the book in the next few months and to move on to the next phase: publication. That, like most things in life, will require me to make a decision. Will I send the manuscript to publishers or will I decide to self-publish? I'm not sure yet and I don't want to "put the cart before the horse." I want to enjoy every minute of writing the book!
Happy
New Year!
