Busy Days

You may have noticed I haven’t posted for the last week (did I hear someone say, ‘Thank heaven for small mercies’?)

Fact is, I’ve been busy. The Summer Wedding Murder, STAC Mystery #8 was finished and sent off for final editing, I had to rough out a new competition using Pinterest (stand by for an announcement on that in the next few days) and of course, Sir Alex Ferguson retired. As a diehard Manchester United supporter since the 1950s, I couldn’t let that pass without at least a mention.

I’ve also been planning the future for the next year and a half.

With eight STACs written and several more planned, I need another distraction, and it’ll come from two directions.

In the course of The Summer Wedding Murder you’ll meet a genealogist named Madeleine Chester, Maddy to her friends. A buxom blonde in her mid forties, Maddy is about to get her own series. Stay tuned for further news.

I also decided it’s time to try and revive the tradition of farce in the shape of bumbling British berks who always come out on top. The first DDS mystery should hit the editor’s desk some time in the summer.

It’s too early to say whether my publisher, Crooked Cat Books, will pick up these series, but they have agreed to look at them. Given the success of the STAC Mysteries, I’m hoping they’ll look favourably on them.

In the meantime, today (Monday) is going to be a busy day. I have the media reports on Sir Alex’s finally appearance at Old Trafford to read, my granddaughter Hannah sitting her exams, and we’ve just heard that Sarah, my eldest son’s partner, is in labour, about to deliver another grandchild, so we’re waiting by the phone for news.

Busy, busy times.