A Death in Summer sent to publisher
Hi Folks,
I'm happy to say that I sent off A Death in Summer to my publisher today. I'm now lying down in a darkened room trying to relax.
The book is set in 1965. This means that, if it's accepted for publication, it will become the second book in the new Collins and Clark Series. It picks up the story of Collins' development as a police officer about 6 months after he has successfully completed his probationary period. I felt that this was worth doing as to jump from 1963 to 1968 meant that too much of Collins, Clark and Agnes' stories were being left out. It also meant that I could stay in that most interesting of decades the 1960s.
The story is about the same length as A Death in Winter and involves a cat and mouse game between Mr Tubbs, a psychotic arsonist and Collins, Clark and Hicks.
It also contains a sub-plot which sees Agnes taking centre stage.
I'm very poor at assessing how good or bad my work is. I'm nearly always my own worst critic. But I do hope that you will enjoy the book as/when/ and if it's published.
Inknbeans will publish A Death in Winter in November 2017 and hopefully A Death in Summer will then be published in 2018 (You can see that I really don't believe in tempting fate).
Finally, a bit of feedback from you would be welcome. Would you like more Collins and Clark books to be set in the 1960s or are you just as happy for the series to extend into the 1970s ? Please let me know.
Cheers,
jim.
I'm happy to say that I sent off A Death in Summer to my publisher today. I'm now lying down in a darkened room trying to relax.
The book is set in 1965. This means that, if it's accepted for publication, it will become the second book in the new Collins and Clark Series. It picks up the story of Collins' development as a police officer about 6 months after he has successfully completed his probationary period. I felt that this was worth doing as to jump from 1963 to 1968 meant that too much of Collins, Clark and Agnes' stories were being left out. It also meant that I could stay in that most interesting of decades the 1960s.
The story is about the same length as A Death in Winter and involves a cat and mouse game between Mr Tubbs, a psychotic arsonist and Collins, Clark and Hicks.
It also contains a sub-plot which sees Agnes taking centre stage.
I'm very poor at assessing how good or bad my work is. I'm nearly always my own worst critic. But I do hope that you will enjoy the book as/when/ and if it's published.
Inknbeans will publish A Death in Winter in November 2017 and hopefully A Death in Summer will then be published in 2018 (You can see that I really don't believe in tempting fate).
Finally, a bit of feedback from you would be welcome. Would you like more Collins and Clark books to be set in the 1960s or are you just as happy for the series to extend into the 1970s ? Please let me know.
Cheers,
jim.
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Personally I would love to see the series extended into the 70s. I think there is plenty of scope for humour there and I'm not sure I have ever read a modern crime novel set then.
Best of luck.