Hi Guys,
Ok, so as the title says I have a tentative plan for publishing two more books this year.
The first is another detective - Art Mystery 101 - which is currently in the process of being edited. And I'm thinking the cover will be similar to the one above - which is another Deep Dream work. The only problem with it is that my character actually is sort of half Oriental and for unknown reasons she actually only has four fingers and thumb on her right hand! (Though ironically enough Cayllee Chambers does have badly damaged fingers on both her hands as a result of an abusive childhood. Could Deep Dream somehow be reading my thoughts?!)
Anyway, the story follows a number of the themes I've had running through my works for a couple of years now, but also takes a couple of sharp left turns. One of them being that she is an actual art forger who has been working quietly away, completely unnoticed by anyone - until an attack / fire / mass murder on the art facility where she is employed for her day drive, threatens to expose her alternative occupation, forcing her to flee.
Of course, nothing is ever what it seems!
The second book is - Good Neighbours - an urban sci fi, set in a fictitious New Zealand town, where our hero is the local vet trying to live a normal life while ignoring the fact that the town is home to an alien research base - and that some of the visitors might actually be insane!
Don't know if this will be the cover - but I love the image!
Good Neighbours is a little further off, but the first draft is complete and I'm flat out working on the edits / revisions. With luck it'll be out for Christmas. Unfortunately, one little wrinkle in my plans is that I'm due for eye surgery next month, so I don't know what that's going to do to everything. The other little wrinkle is that every time I sit down to type, the cat seems to want to sit in front of the screen and get petted!
Anyway, that's where I am at the moment, and I will do my damndest not to get sidetracked as usual. (If the cat lets me!)
Cheers for now,
Greg.
