Three weeks ago, NOBODY WINS was released and is now available as a trade paperback on Amazon
and my website and as an eBook at the Kindle Store.
I ran into a lot
of delays in writing this one. The trip to Ireland for research, helping put
together the inaugural Mystery Writers Key West Fest and my job writing for the
Key West Weekly.
Now I am working
on an idea for my next Mick Murphy Key West Mystery and it’s going to involve a
week-long road trip to the Florida Panhandle or Panama City (still deciding)
and New Orleans.
I can begin
writing the book soon, because the opening chapters happen in Key West and with
a gruesome event that, I hope, will make all readers really hate the bad guy.
Doing that from the beginning will be a new twist for me. I hope it works and
doesn’t come back and bite me in the ass.
I don’t usually
have another book in mind when I finish one. I get to work on a short story and
it’s kind of a vacation of the mind. But this story came to me while riding and
listening to ole Waylon Jennings on a CD. I can’t remember the name of the
song, but it had something to do with getting out of Tulsa before sunset. Find
the song, listen to it and you might have an idea of where the story plot is
going. Timely and gruesome, trust me.
Anyway, like I often do, I take the idea in the song and wonder “What would
Murphy do?” By the time I’d returned home I had the story kind of worked out in
my head and have kept adjusting it, even while still writing NOBODY WINS.
I had another
surprise too. Maybe I just have too much time on my hands. I have the book
following the next one kind of thought out too. I guess any short stories I had
hoped to work on will have to wait. All I can tell you on the 2nd
book is this time Mick has to come to the aid of his black-bag friend Norm.
It’s usually Norm coming to save Mick’s butt.
Other than that,
I am busying working on the 2nd annual Mystery Writers Key West Fest for June
of 2015. Wanna help? What Florida writer
would you like to see as our Saturday guest author and luncheon speaker and
why. Would he/she be reason enough for you to come to Key
West for the
event?
I am looking
forward to hearing from the dedicated three readers following my posts on this
one!
Oh yeah, if you
buy NOBODY WINS, please write a review on its Amazon page, it really helps.
Thanks and
remember, a book a day keeps the mind busy and you out of trouble . . . live
vicariously through mysteries!
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