Karin Bishop
Yes, but with an asterisk after that ...
The last few years have been hard or devastating for so many, that my own situation pales, but it's mine. Some health problems, some financial ones, and my writing routine was severely curtailed. Nerve problems have slowed typing, for one example. But I had to do writing-for-hire to get through the pandemic, with little time for my own.
That mea culpa aside, I'm more than halfway through a continuation (I avoid the word 'sequel' if I can) to Western Sunset; the further adventures of Liz Fleming. At this time, all I can say about completion is "...some time in the spring?" I started it and ignored COVID, thinking that things were too grim and readers wouldn't want to dwell on it (and maybe we'd get it contained in a few months). Then the pandemic went on and on; after careful consideration--and a lot of other authors' discussions on writing blogs -- where "To acknowledge the virus or not" was a major topic -- I dismantled the book and rebuilt it. It now takes place in the summer of '20; now that things have relaxed, it's odd revisiting life when there was no toilet paper in the stores!
Still wear my mask, though.
The last few years have been hard or devastating for so many, that my own situation pales, but it's mine. Some health problems, some financial ones, and my writing routine was severely curtailed. Nerve problems have slowed typing, for one example. But I had to do writing-for-hire to get through the pandemic, with little time for my own.
That mea culpa aside, I'm more than halfway through a continuation (I avoid the word 'sequel' if I can) to Western Sunset; the further adventures of Liz Fleming. At this time, all I can say about completion is "...some time in the spring?" I started it and ignored COVID, thinking that things were too grim and readers wouldn't want to dwell on it (and maybe we'd get it contained in a few months). Then the pandemic went on and on; after careful consideration--and a lot of other authors' discussions on writing blogs -- where "To acknowledge the virus or not" was a major topic -- I dismantled the book and rebuilt it. It now takes place in the summer of '20; now that things have relaxed, it's odd revisiting life when there was no toilet paper in the stores!
Still wear my mask, though.
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