When I opened this blog and realized
it’s been nearly two months since I last wrote in it I was surprised. I don’t
know where the time has gone and this hot, and very wet, summer seems to have
flown by. Already it’s dark in the mornings when I leave for work and the
leaves are beginning to turn to their fall colors. Winter will soon be on us
and Christmas is just around the corner.
Speaking of Christmas and the need to buy gifts, “Hunted” is
now at the third proof-reading stage and will be available for the festive
season. The cover picture is ready and the first edit with its myriad of red
pen marks has been done. I’ve made the corrections and it’s now back with my
dedicated proof-reader for its second review. After that it comes back to me
for any changes before one final read through and then hopefully will be going
to the publishers by mid-October.
That brings up the question of what comes next. I have two
or three outlines ready and will certainly be going with one of them but I’m
also looking at something I wrote a while ago. The story is finished but it has
never been edited and I may well read it through and send it to my proof reader
once she has finished with “Hunted”.
If I do, and if she is not too stringent with her red pen,
it may well be ready for New Year’s. I’m not promising (I’ve learned not to do
that on this blog) and I’m not going to say too much about it now in case it
doesn’t come off. All I will say is it is very different to all my other books and I
guess I would have to describe it as a coming of age novel set against the
background of World War II.
Enough of that for now though, I have to decide whether Dean
and Steph investigate another case, do I go with the search for lost treasure
or do I delve in the past and produce another historical novel? Any
requests/suggestions would be welcome.
“Hunted”: coming soon.
A journalist looking for a story sees someone he believes is
dead.
He takes her picture and the nightmare begins.
Suddenly he is cut off from the world. He has no phone, no
internet, no credit cards and no money. He’s four thousand miles from home,
wanted for a crime he didn’t commit and there are three trained killers hunting
him to ensure he never files his story.
Follow him across two continents as he tries to reveal
the truth while fighting to stay alive in “Hunted
