An Attempt to Think Up Something For My Turn on This Blog

Everyone who posts on this blog comes up with such clever topic ideas. For some unknown reason, my mind has drawn a blank. Not that I’m ever that clever, but it does seem like something would pop into my mind.

Because I’m so embroiled in planning the promo for my next Deputy Tempe Crabtree mystery, Dispel the Mist, that’s all I can think about. Though the manuscript has been through the editing process at my publishers, I’m now waiting on the galley proof to go over. For some reason, galley proofs never seem to arrive in a timely manner. With my very first book the galley arrived on a Friday with instruction to have them back by Monday. This was long before email and it was an impossibility to get them back that fast. I sent in my corrections, but the typos were all still there when the book came out.

Last year, I had a big book launch planned for Kindred Spirits, out of town and in a Bed and Breakfast with pre-sold tickets for a luncheon. I sweated bullets. I got the books about four days before I had to leave for the event.

With Dispel the Mist, I don’t have anything quite so lavish planned–though I do have events nearly every weekend and I’m hoping I’ll have books by then.

This is the way it is with every book I’ve written. I’m told when the book will be out, I make plans, then I go through the nerve wracking process of whether or not I’ll get the galleys, have enough time to proof (very necessary) and get them back for the whole printing process.

I’m truly eager for Dispel the Mist since one of the characters is the Hairy Man, an Indian legend who may or may not still be roaming the mountains above the Tule River Indian Reservation (Bear Creek Reservation in my books). The cover has a very realistic rendition of the pictograph of the Hairy Man on the Painted Rock on the reservation.

I had a great time writing this book and my heroine’s encounter with this legendary creature.

Marilyn
http://fictionforyou.com