I’m pleased to announce that Audible has run their final checks and officially cleared the new audiobook for launch: The Locust Job, narrated by Adam Verner, is available now! Adam did a great job bringing Daniel Faust’s latest adventure to life, and I’m pleased with how it came out.
Speaking of Faust, at the moment I’m officially back to work. The move isn’t quite over yet, a few odds and ends left to deal with (aren’t there always?), but I’m ensconced at my new workstation and finding something akin to a normal schedule once again. The next Faust novel is coming along smoothly — no plot or character issues have popped up to destroy my outline just yet, though something always does, that’s just part of the process — and I think having it out by the end of the year is a very attainable goal.
This is going to be a fun one. Some old familiar faces and foes who haven’t been seen in a long time will be popping up in the next outing (and if you’ve gotten to the ending of The Locust Job, you can probably guess why.)
We’re still deep in editing on Black Tie Required, the next Harmony Black outing, but as it stands we still look good for an April release. And Thomas & Mercer Publishing still has The Insider, the second Charlie McCabe thriller, penciled in for July 7. That one’s basically finished and ready: it’s gone through rewrites, developmental editing, more rewrites, and copy-editing, and now all we have to do is the final proofreading pass.
(On the day it comes out, I’ll be heading for NYC to attend the annual Thrillerfest convention. I won’t know if The Loot is a finalist for the 2020 Thrillerfest awards for another couple of months, but fingers crossed.)
And now I must move some boxes, unpack some boxes, break down some boxes, and also write. If there are a lot of mentions of boxes in this new book, now you know why.