The Latest

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People often ask, "What are you working on?" Currently, I have a book in progress called Aunt Marge (possible cover above). It's women's fiction, focused on Gwen, a Chicago resident who gets herself all messed up due to a series of tragic events. Her aunt, a woman unknown to Gwen until her crises come to a head and she overdoses, offers to take her to her farm in Michigan's U.P. to recover. Gwen is grateful, but she soon figures out that Aunt Marge is no kindly soul, and there's lots going on up there that isn't exactly normal.

I got the first draft back from the editor recently. She liked it but had many suggestions for improvement, and I saw that she was right in almost every instance. So that's my current goal: getting Aunt Marge in shape.

While the editor was working on that book, I started another one I'm calling Fake. I love the concept, and I managed to get a rough rough draft done before Aunt Marge came home. That one's probably a year out, but I'm looking forward to getting back to it.

Then there's my conundrum: a book I wrote some time back for YA audiences. It involves a young girl who's drawn into an oil painting, to a world where she learns how easily freedoms disappear when people don't treat each other fairly. The characters in Polly's in the Picture are fun and the world she visits has plenty of adventure, but I never knew how to present it to the world. I'm not known as a YA writer, and  the amount of work it takes to break into a different writing genre is formidable. I will publish sometime soon, but I will probably depend on word of mouth for sales. There's only so much push an author can give a book, and promotion is my least favorite part of the process.

We won't even bring up Maggie Pill's next Cats & Crimes book--(Oops, I guess I did). 

As usual, I have lots of things I want to get done. I have choices to make. I have covers to choose. I have edits to consider. 

To be honest, I love every bit of it.



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