Sunday, June 16, 2019

"Chrysalis" and What's Up Next...

"Finding Trey" changed into "Chrysalis" before it was done, which was June 13th, and it fits, because the book turned out to be all about change, anyway.

I'm proud of it. I think it's my best yet, despite my earlier misgivings.

I was really down the next morning when it was time to write, but Trey's story was already finished. I figured I just missed him and the other characters. So, I edited it and over the next couple days, then sent out some query letters and entered it into some contests. The whole manuscript is in my father's hands, now; poor guy volunteered to edit it and I took him up on it without hesitation.

Nothing made me feel better, though.

Until I started thinking about Jesse. And so, two days after I finished Chrysalis, I started to write Dark Mirror.

I feel much better now.

Here's a quick breakdown I posted on the Rose's Ghost Facebook page:

Based in Wakefield, Quebec, and featuring Jesse, a resident musician at a popular restaurant over the Autumn months, Charlotte, long-estranged from Jesse, with a restraining order to make sure it stays that way, and Suki, the ghost of a mail-order bride, murdered by a man like Jesse in so many ways. For Jesse's own sanity (and Charlotte's fate), he'll need to figure out what makes himself and the murderer different.
What makes him better. 
What makes him unable to commit such an act against the woman he's convinced belongs with him.
But what can he do when the only person who can help him is a ghost?

This one's about reflection, dear readers.

xo