From the Newsletter: News and Christmas
News, news, news!
Book news, knee knews (snicker), and personal news.
Book news first. As you know RIFT IN THE SOUL will be out in March. I am so happy with it. The editorial team at Penguin Random House did a fabulous job with it, and made it so much stronger.
The publishers’ internal teams have a targeted release date of July 2, 2024 for JUNKYARD ROADHOUSE. There will be a preorder link up sometime in the first of the year for eBook and print, and (as usual) Audible will be up about a week before the release date. And for your pleasure (only for the newsletter peeps at this time) here is the blurb that will appear on the distributors’ sites as book description:
Shining Smith stands on the brink of achieving her goals, and yet now she could lose everything.
The presidents of four motorcycle clubs are coming to claim blood sacrifice and to ink her with motorcycle club tats. Her new roadhouse and its charter have to meet their approval or the roadhouse has no future, and neither does Shining.
An injured kid shows up at Smith’s Junk and Scrap, but collapses before he can speak.
A note arrives containing a warning and a plea for help, addressed by someone who knows Shining’s most intimate secrets—her history, her plans, and the names of her friends. The sender claims his daughter has been kidnapped by Shining’s enemies. To keep her secrets, he wants Shining to get his daughter back.
In order to rescue the hostage and keep her junkyard, her roadhouse, her people, and the cats alive, Shining Smith will have to suffer, fight, and bargain her way out of danger. All without accidently transitioning anyone—creating an accidental thrall—no matter how much her nanobots want her to.
Lock and load. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
How cool is that???
Ok. Knee. I have not had the easiest recovery following my right total knee replacement—not because the new joint was a problem but because the rest of the leg was a problem.
There isn’t a lot of personal news (pesky knee), so Christmas has been quiet, spent with visits with family. Oh. And finishing the first agent-editorial rewrite of (working title) THE FIRM.
Y’all I love this book! It may be the best thing I’ve written in 15 years. It will go to my agent shortly and then on to the acquisitions editor at Penguin Random House. Fingers crossed they buy it. And when THE FIRM goes out to the editor, I’ll be working on the freebie short story that I’ll be posting on my website!
OK – This was long.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!
Faith