I broke out of the ward (office!) for a day! And it’s actually a warm, Spring afternoon! The sun’s out, and the wind went home (wherever that is!) Even better, my calendar for today is blank! (Or should I say I made it blank with a ballpoint pen!)
This has been a great week! Like I posted earlier, the rights to the Lena Gamble novels have come back to me. It was a huge race to get the Kindle editions formatted and uploaded with these wonderful new covers created by Kealan Patrick Burke. Kealan’s artistic talent blows my mind. But now, waiting on June 2 for CITY OF STONES to come out, a wait that’s killing me!!!, the Lena Gamble paperbacks are nearing completion. MURDER SEASON, which may be my personal favorite thriller of the three, went LIVE this week. There’s no other way to put it—Lena is just awesome in the story, but so is her nemesis, Dan Cobb. I always looked at MURDER SEASON as a “big city” book with links to Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade and the world they lived in. (This is over the top true in CITY OF STONES!)
I’ve always been shocked by the emotional intensity that a thriller can produce over other genres. I know writers and editors often like to say that they’re working on a thriller, but few ever are. Thrillers don’t move like detective stories or mysteries and live at opposite ends of the crime fiction genre. Although I love both, I lean toward thrillers because they’re personal stories and depend on characters being fleshed out and a hero becoming the ultimate victim. I love reading them, and I love writing them. But like I said, I’m taking the day off and thinking about June 2, the day CITY OF STONES goes LIVE and Matt Jones faces his fourth dangerous brush with fate!
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