I made it up to Scranton and back with no issues last Saturday, and spent a nice afternoon at Possibilities Books & Gifts. I sold and signed a few copies of DANU’S CHILDREN, and gave out a few more bookmarks, during the store’s annual open house. Meanwhile, owner Gina Pace did non-stop Tarot card readings in the next room, someone else did Reiki therapy, they sold discounted and used books, and at one point there was even a Middle Eastern Dance demo! A lot going on, all to a background of soothing New Age music. And I got back home without hitting any deer on the highway (my second biggest driving fear, next to being stuck in a snow bank).
Today I’m snowed in at home. It’s so bad here that even my boss isn’t going to the office, and he’s a trouper! My colleague Antoinette and I got a lot of work done ahead last night for the weekly section, so we should have no trouble finishing up tomorrow. But this being a newspaper, we definitely will have to get in there tomorrow!
Meanwhile, I plan to finish reading through my first draft of ONE BLOOD and making editing notes (almost done with that). I also want to work on another short scene for my next Quinn Matthews book, HEX, DEATH AND ROCK ‘N’ ROLL, so I have something to read to my critique group next week.
It’s a bit of a challenge to get my head out of the last book and into this one, because they’re so different. ONE BLOOD, though ultimately a romance, is pretty dark; it’s also multiple-viewpoint and a thriller. HD&RnR, though it’s a murder mystery and someone dies early on, will be a bit lighter with pop-cultural elements, and it’s almost all first-person from Quinn’s viewpoint. Through her job writing about architecture and interior design for her local paper, she witnesses a suspicious “accident” while a rock band is shooting a video in an old movie theater. Being psychic, Quinn’s the only one who thinks it might be the work of a ghost. When word of this gets back to the band’s singer, he asks her to do some investigating, because he believes he’s being stalked by someone who’s put a curse on him. So Quinn gets pulled into a unfamiliar world of rock’n’roll jealousies and business machinations, and discovers a lot of characters who have issues with the singer and the band. But could any of them throw a curse that resulted in someone being killed? (Since this is one of my books, you know the answer is, “Probably”!)
Sounds like I’ve got a lot of work ahead of me. I’d better stop blogging and start writing! And to all my fellow Jerseyans, if you can, stay home today and don’t try to drive!
