Writer's Update: Coming soon?
Book 3 of the Seffi Wardwell mysteries really is coming soon... depending on how you define "soon." I'm plugging away at the edits, and my cover artist has finished the semester and is at work on the cover (Right, Maggie?).
I can't believe how long this is all taking. When will I learn that the revision stage is hard, and always takes longer than it should? And why? Because I avoid it, and because it really does take a long time to work through the whole book so many times.
Anyway, here is the blurb, and as soon as I have a cover I will set up pre-orders and give myself a hard and fast launch date! Feel free to offer suggestions on the blurb--nothing is set in stone yet!
Who rubbed out the writer?
Winter in Maine is long, dark, and
cold, and California transplant Seffi Wardwell is combating the winter blues with a full calendar. Tending the plants at the local bed-and-breakfast, writing reports
for the library, and generally keeping an eye on events in Smelt Point barely
leaves time for pastry and gossip at Sweet Dreams, the local bakery and heart of
the village.
When the participants at an artistic retreat held at the bed-and-breakfast
become cantankerous, Seffi is there to smooth things over, stiffen the spine of
the innkeeper, and keep things going. But when a writer turns up dead, Seffi’s
called on to wield a different kind of expertise. Then someone lets slip there
was poison in a coffee bought at Sweet Dreams, and it looks like Seffi’s favorite
source of treats is in real trouble. Can her knowledge of plants save the inn—and
the local bakery—before the killer strikes again and tears the heart out of
Smelt Point?
Finally, we've been having some nice weather, and I've cleaned off the deck furniture and gotten the umbrellas out of the shed. That's partly because the morning sun shines right into my eyes at the breakfast table this time of year, but I also have to have shade to sit outside.
Today I was outside working on edits. Sometimes it's nice to have things on paper!
Ah-hah! Proof of work in progress!
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