Hello Readers,
I hope you all enjoyed your summer!
This spring and summer were ones of surgeries, recovery, travel (to doctors), revision… and quilting when I got the chance. I actually finished the Mystery Five-O quilt top that I started last year!
I’m feeling better each day, and in a couple of weeks I’ll be free to return to life without restrictions. Hooray!
We’ve gone through some rather traumatic changes as well. First, we had to have a huge, old maple tree removed from our backyard because it was rotten, and we didn’t want a new sunroof in the house. My second-floor studio looked out over its waving branches as I wrote, and I was literally distracted by squirrels chasing each other, and birds resting among its leaves. Now I have a lovely view of our neighbor’s backyard. Not that it’s a bad yard, but I miss my squirrels. The house is over a hundred years old, and the tree wasn’t as old as that, but it was big. And shady. Of course I couldn’t find a picture of the tree out my window. But another tree is going in ASAP!
We also had to give up rabbits this summer. I couldn’t care for them with my surgeries, and my husband and daughter both work long hours. It was a heartbreaking decision, especially after losing our dear Sophie, but the relief from the stress tells me it was a good call.
Book News
On a happier note, I found a new editor! I’m enjoying working with her, and I’m doing the final revisions for Dreams and Deceptions now and falling in love with it all over again. I hope you will, too. I also revised my short story, “A Klutz in Key Largo,” and submitted it to a Florida mystery anthology. Stay tuned for news on that front.
Dreams and Illusions will be with me for my first Bouchercon World Mystery Convention, in Calgary, Alberta! I’m told it’s a great place to meet other mystery writers and fans, and I’m excited to be going this year with my husband. If you’re in the area, October 21st-25th, come and see me. Here’s a link for more information: https://www.bouchercon.com/
I’ll leave you with the trailer for Dreams and Deceptions, where Gabrielle returns to Whitman from Seattle to find not only her kitchen, but her life in chaos with a newspaper article exposing her gift of dreams to the entire town, a missing man, and news that her husband’s death was not an accident. Let me know what you think. (Note: I’m considering a different cover design.)
Until next time, happy reading (and viewing),
Rebecca