2023: beginning of a new book
Since book 5 in The Resistance Girl Series, The Highland Raven, came out, I’ve taken a couple of months’ break from writing about WW2 to launch a new historical detective series The Mrs Imogene Lynch Series and to move to another part of Holland. Both were stressful events, but are now done and dusted.
When I set out to write the big books in The Resistance Girl Series in 2020, I took quite some time to plot the stories and get to the heart of my heroine’s journey before and during WW2. Next to doing all the research, that was a substantial job, and I pushed myself too hard to write too fast. These 125K volumes aren’t books you can just jot on the page and deliver to the world. So, I’m taking it a little slower this time. Most of January will be spent to to find out what makes Edda Van der Valk tick and to set up the book.
What I’m also going to do differently this time is share snippets of my story along the way, and do tons of on-the-spot research. As I’m now living close to Den Bosch and can easily travel to the most important places of action during WW2 in Holland, I’d like to share with you my explorations.
The Crystal Butterfly is also inspired by - though far from identical to - Audrey Hepburn’s Dutch war years, so I’ll take you to places where she lived and spent some of the most arduous years of her life.
Audrey Hepburn at the Arnhem Conservatory during the war
The Crystal Butterfly comes 6 June 2023.
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