Veronica’s #WritersDiary, Let the Final Quarter #Countdown Begin…

Tick-tock, we just have eleven more weeks to go in 2019, can you believe it? I don’t know about you, but just like the lovely symmetry of the palace gardens I love so much, I try to keep my schedule groomed and planned as much as possible for the year end. I’m not a huge fan of last minute surprises, it’s worth it for me to check and re-check the remainder of the year schedule to make sure nothing falls through the cracks. My two biggest events are the launch and release of book 4 in my series, Mistletoe and Mayhem, Yuletide at Castlewood Manor, just in time for the holidays (more on this below) and the debut of my new website, veronicaclinebarton.com! The suitcases are primed, we still have a few more trips planned for the year: Bouchercon 2019 mystery conference in Dallas, Jackson Hole, WY–the scene for my next book, and Hearst Castle at Christmas (a nighttime tour with all the Yuletide trimmings (I’m going to try and leave a copy of Mistletoe and Mayhem in the library #HoHoHo