I'll be posting stuff about the books on sale this month next weekend. We're down the final stretch, and The Twilight Lover will be out in less than a month (whoop!). I just finalized the manuscript and hit publish on the print book, and now I can really focus on the newest WiP.
Anyway, I finally put together a gallery page for The Twilight Lover, and it's over here.
I wasn't kidding when I said in that gallery page that this book was one of the most fun I've ever had, writing it. I hope readers enjoy it as much as I did as I dive back in and work through a darker book.
I dumped my first attempt at writing the opening chapter for Doppelgänger as the epistolary approach wasn't working as well as I'd hoped. It's now being written in a more standard first-person narrative, and it's also a contemporary setting.
Trying to write something modern that's also a lot closer to realism than my previous efforts has always been a challenge. I've never been one for realistic fiction. I tried with Icarus in Flight, Banshee, and The Glass Minstrel, and while I'm proud as all hell of those books, I'm not keen on repeating the experience. It's just not me.
Doppelgänger will be closer to Banshee in treatment (both books are first person POV), but the fantasy / paranormal elements will be in the minority. At least I have those to lean on for a fuller expression of my brain's weird turns, and I expect to continue along these lines in future contemporary books. I did mention that there's a germ of an idea for a future story in the Nightshade universe, and it's starting to feel more and more likely.
Now if THAT happens, I'll be squeezing it somewhere in the calendar as I'd like to see a more even balanced release schedule involving both historical fantasy and contemporary fantasy. Beyond A House of Profane Gods, there are no new stories percolating somewhere (not counting that one for the Nightshade plotbunny), but I'm actively scouring through images for potential story prompts.
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