The BARROO Report

Ahh, the first, glorious rush of starting National Novel Writing Month!

I am having so much FUN with this year's project.

I hope you will too.

The working title is THE WICKED QUEEN, and it's the sequel of the sequel to BITTER SWEET, a faerie tale with a twist. My publisher, Mundania Press, originally said that evil King Fallon just didn't suffer enough at the end of BITTER SWEET. He got his comeuppance, but not enough. So, I wrote THE WOLF THAT WAS, where Fallon tried to get the best of several magical folk -- the first Werelings, who you can meet in the Emerald Necklace series, with WOLVES ON THE WEST SIDE and SHATTER SCATTER.

At the end of WOLF, Fallon's widow, Queen Sorcha, gets caught in a couple of her lies and is put under a curse, to wander the world as an old woman, until she learns the errors of her ways and starts caring about other people more than herself, essentially.

So that's what THE WICKED QUEEN is all about -- Sorcha getting some much-needed reformation. Right now, she's just finished putting together a magical book that is going to be her advisor and offer some much-needed lessons on navigating all the magic in her world.

Here's to a hopefully FUN book, hopefully published in a couple years!