Seven Secrets Project

I’m about to post my 2014/2015 release schedule and there’s a book on there that I haven’t mentioned before, so this is me, mentioning it :)

I was asked to write a book for a new collaborative project headed by Canadian authors Eric Walters and Teresa Totem. Eric did a project last year called Seven, which you can find here. The premise for that was “a grandfather dies and leaves each of his seven grandsons something that sends them on an adventure.” Seven authors took a grandson and each wrote a book. This new project is called “Seven Secrets” and follows the premise “Seven girls in an orphanage in 1964 are each given a clue to their past that sends them on an adventure.” The seven authors are Eric Walters, Teresa Toten, Marthe Jocelyn, Vicki Grant, Kathy Kacer, Eric Walters, Norah McClintock …and me.

My book is subtitled “Tess’s Secret” and that’s what it’s called on my release schedule. My girl’s adventure takes her to Quebec, which was a very interesting time to be in 1964, in the midst of the Quiet Revolution. I had a blast researching this one. It’s my most “Canadian” project, and I’m very pleased about that. I tend to tone down the local content for an international audience, but this is a Canadian project with a Canadian publisher, so I took advantage of that.

Although this is a joint project, the book is my own, from premise to character to execution. All authors were given complete freedom there, including the freedom to add any elements they wanted, so mine has a supernatural twist.

Tess’s Secret (which will have a real title at some point!) comes out fall 2015, which is why I haven’t mentioned it. But it’s on the official schedule now.