One Chapter Away

Tomorrow, on Friday, I hope to write the last chapter of my Work In Progress. This is the first book in a new series, and it’s a shorter book than usual, so I’m going to ask $3.99 for it. I like short this time. The pace feels good. My critique partners will let me know if it worked or not. Who knows? I might have a lot of rewrites ahead of me:)

In this book, Loretta Ransburger is a widow. She and her husband, Ira, had a wonderful marriage. He wanted her to be happy, and she wanted the same for him. The only blot came when a detective, “Deadeye” Harrison, came to question Ira about a murder at his export business. When Deadeye knocked on the company’s door, someone opened it, raised a gun, and killed him. Ira tried to find out who killed him and why but never could. Not even with Harrison’s partner taking over the case. He was always disappointed about that. Two years after Ira died of a heart attack, a new detective decides to reopen the twenty-year-old case, and this time, Loretta is determined to find out what really happened. What she didn’t expect, though, is to be working with Deadeye’s ghost, who came back to find the killer.

I want to think of a great blurb for this mystery. I just read a blog about how writing a clever blurb can make or break a book. The author swore that some books sold lots more copies after the writer changed his blurb and made it better. My mind doesn’t run to clever very often. I might have to pester HH, friends, and family for some eye-catching quips.

But for now, I’m going to enjoy finishing the first draft of Not A Ghost of a Chance.