21 January 2010
At last we have a date for the publication of "A Very Private Murder". A lot can happen before then but word has it that Book XIII in the Charlie Priest saga is scheduled for July 2010. If anything changes I'll let you know.
So now I have no excuse for not directing my creative juices towards the next volume, Book XIV. In the absence of a blinding moment of inspiration where the full story is revealed to me as I shelter in a doorway from the mother of all thunder storms, I'll settle for determining what time of year the drama will unfold, and, if I'm doing well, on an interesting location for some of the scenes. Hopefully that will get me off the mark but it's not laid in concrete and can be changed anytime. Then all I need is some characters and a plot.