The proof copy arrived much sooner than expected. I've made a bunch of corrections and a few 'artist's alterations,' and uploaded the new pdf to CreateSpace. Short of some surprise from left field, The Wedding Fatality will be available as a print-on-demand trade paperback by Tuesday the 6th. YAY! I don't know what the lag time will be before the Ebook is posted.
Now the challenge will be publicity and sales. The Atlanta Writers' Club will run a notice, but the next issue of eQuill won't be out until November 1st.
The minute the book is available, at the very nanosecond, I will have links from this site to Amazon. Be sure to let me know what you think of the book! If you like it, please post a review at Amazon. If you're not so crazy about it, you can tell me how great the type font is. That's our little code.
Next up for me is working on volume six; the working title is Amy Gets a Boyfriend. I have been obsessing over the question, 'what do the bad guys want?' It's the key to where the plot needs to go. The bad guys are very bad indeed, involved in human trafficking from Central America to New Orleans' whore houses. They are mad at Amy's client (and hence at Amy) after they had been leasing a warehouse from him; when they abruptly told the client they were cutting their rent, the client thought he couldn't go to the police without getting in trouble himself, so he burned the building. The bad guys are mad that they lost some inventory (the client didn't know exactly what the bad guys were doing bad; he was unaware some women being held before being leased or sold were in the warehouse), and because now they had to find another stupid landlord to rent from. The alpha leader of this three-man gang is psychopathic, so his goals don't have to be all that rational. So far I'm thinking he wants stupid revenge for the inconvenience of needing to find another location for his operation. So he and his beta-underling and savat muscle throw Molotov Cocktails through the client's home windows. They intercept the client outside the real estate office he owns and beat him up. Amy tries to negotiate with the bad guys, but that makes her an alternate target for mayhem -- and potential replacement inventory.
It will be fun to get to the point where I can quit brainstorming and start writing it.
Now the challenge will be publicity and sales. The Atlanta Writers' Club will run a notice, but the next issue of eQuill won't be out until November 1st.
The minute the book is available, at the very nanosecond, I will have links from this site to Amazon. Be sure to let me know what you think of the book! If you like it, please post a review at Amazon. If you're not so crazy about it, you can tell me how great the type font is. That's our little code.
Next up for me is working on volume six; the working title is Amy Gets a Boyfriend. I have been obsessing over the question, 'what do the bad guys want?' It's the key to where the plot needs to go. The bad guys are very bad indeed, involved in human trafficking from Central America to New Orleans' whore houses. They are mad at Amy's client (and hence at Amy) after they had been leasing a warehouse from him; when they abruptly told the client they were cutting their rent, the client thought he couldn't go to the police without getting in trouble himself, so he burned the building. The bad guys are mad that they lost some inventory (the client didn't know exactly what the bad guys were doing bad; he was unaware some women being held before being leased or sold were in the warehouse), and because now they had to find another stupid landlord to rent from. The alpha leader of this three-man gang is psychopathic, so his goals don't have to be all that rational. So far I'm thinking he wants stupid revenge for the inconvenience of needing to find another location for his operation. So he and his beta-underling and savat muscle throw Molotov Cocktails through the client's home windows. They intercept the client outside the real estate office he owns and beat him up. Amy tries to negotiate with the bad guys, but that makes her an alternate target for mayhem -- and potential replacement inventory.
It will be fun to get to the point where I can quit brainstorming and start writing it.