Psyched to announce some good news – that I’ve signed a contract with British publisher Severn House for two crime novels featuring a protagonist named Nora Best.
I’m doubly psyched because my previous series featuring reporter Lola Wicks effectively ended when my publisher, Midnight Ink, shut down. It’s fun to be starting something with a new protagonist and a whole new set of circumstances.
All I’ll say about Nora is that she’s not a journalist, and at the beginning of the first book, tentatively titled Best Laid Plans, finds herself newly single. Oh, and an Airstream trailer is integral to the plot. Why an Airstream? Because I want one, and writing about one is probably as close as I’ll get to ever having one.
But because writing the novel involves endless—very necessary!—time on Airstream sites and blogs, whenever I log on I’m now beset by ads for trailers I’ll never be able to afford. Clearly the Airstream people know nothing about writer/journalists’ incomes.
The first book is tentatively set to come out in the UK in May, and then in the United States three months later.
Watch this spot for updates on Nora’s travels.
This is the best news I’ve heard in a while. Congratulations! When are we drinking?
Awesome! I look forward to reading of Nora’s adventures!
You and your four-letter word-named heroines! I’m looking forward to Nora. Sounds good, including Airstreams.
I look forward to it already. Intrigued to know how you and your UK publisher found each other across the miles. Perhaps there really are no miles in the internet era.